Word: annunzio
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Over the next quarter century, La Belle Otero's distinguished clientele came to include the crowned heads of England, Spain. Belgium, Russia, Germany, Persia, Monaco and Montenegro, as well as assorted dukes and princes, not to mention such uncommon commoners as Italy's D'Annunzio, an American Vanderbilt, and French Premier Aristide Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even...
...Time to Sing. Tall, rugged, dashing, Malaparte was one of a vanishing breed: the intellectual buccaneer in the manner of D'Annunzio, who bounced from one Great Cause to the next. After fighting in World War I, he became an ardent advocate of Fascism. In and out of favor with the regime, he joined the Allies in 1943, later tried to join the Communist Party but was brusquely turned down. He visited Red China in 1956 and came home bubbling with enthusiasm...
...members of Die Brücke endlessly read Verlaine, Rimbaud, D'Annunzio and Nietzsche. They drank into the night, took midnight swims with their female models, absorbed everything from the fiery swirls of Van Gogh to the dramatic African masks that were being displayed in the Dresden Zoological and Ethnographical Museum. By 1911, when they decamped to Berlin. Kirchner had developed a boldly distinctive style of his own, and he had begun painting the famed street scenes that were to be his forte (see color...
...Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, by Anthony Rhodes. Italy's flamboyant warrior-poet is portrayed in an entertaining biography...
...Annunzio: The Poet as Superman, by Anthony Rhodes. Italy's flamboyant warrior-poet is portrayed in an entertaining biography...