Word: annunzio
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...English divorce laws are strict; in Italy there is no divorce; but when Gabriele d'Annunzio started to create a Paradise on the Adriatic in 1919, he decided that Fiume's code should be equipped with steam-heat, plumbing and hot water night and day. Divorce was blissfully easy. Early this year, Lady Marconi quieted two years of rumors of divorce by establishing a technical residence at Fiume and suing her husband, who was guilty of incompatibility of temper...
Legal separation was almost in sight, when King Vittorio Emanuele paraded in amid royal salutes and arches of triumph (TIME, March 24). Fiume was annexed to Italy. D'Annunzio's poetic views on divorce were automatically supplanted by the bigoted fixity of the Italian Coda Civile. Lady Marconi is the first would-be divorcée to have a country shot from under her by treaty. On account of her position at the Court, it is thought unlikely that-following the fashion in Italian divorces—she will take the step of establishing a residence in Hungary...
Merit Rewarded. That Fiume is now Italian soil is due to Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet, airman, filibuster, whose expedition in 1919 seized the little city at the head of the Adriatic and held it against all comers until driven out by Italian bayonets...
...Annunzio was therefore rewarded by the King whom he defied for the sake of Italy Unredeemed. The poet who defied Woodrow Wilson, the Supreme Council, the Slavs and finally his own Government, in order to arouse Italian sentiment, was made last week by Royal Decree, the Prince of Montenevoso (Snowy Mountain...
After the Armistice streets in many Italian cities were named Via Wilson, Via d'Annunzio or Via Fiume, to suit changing enthusiasms. To name a street for Mussolini is not enough. So it is reported from Milan that a "model city" will be constructed in southern Italy in honor of the modest Benito and that this city will bear "for all time" the novel name of "Mussolini...