Word: annunzio
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...Jacques believed that thought must be carried into action. It was all very well, he suggested, for Denise to say she loved him, but what about the proof? "To merit my love," said young Jacques, "you must go from suffering to suffering." He cited a passage in D'Annunzio in which a jealous husband kills the child his wife has had by another man, and asked, "Now, isn't that beautiful?" Denise agreed, "but," she said, "I haven't the right to do such a thing." "Exactly," said her lover, "that's the whole point...
...theatrical has-beens and wouldbes of Rome's fleabag Hotel Imperatore, the Countess Sanziani exudes the imposing aura of a famed once-was. For La Sanziani. as Carmela soon learns, was once a legendary courtesan, mistress of a d'Annunzio-like poet, playmate of a Dutch multimillionaire, brief bedfellow of the Kaiser and of many another great or near great. Carmela is too young to sense it, but the poignancy of the countess is that in her rage to relive these past love affairs, she is dueling with her last and most pressing suitor-death...
...waned, and critics were finding his later work "disappointing." He had been praised as one of the "world's great literary figures." But such evaluations are for posterity, which would judge Mann against his world contemporaries: Kipling, Conrad, Gorky, Gide, Joyce, Henry James, Shaw, Galsworthy, d'Annunzio. Mann himself was sensitively aware that one enters this hall of fame treading lightly. "There has been far too much talk about me," he wrote in 1951, adding: "It is not without a measure of embarrassment and dis may . . . that I note . . . that some people judge me from my books...
Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (Suzanne Danco, soprano; Union Chorale de la Tour-de-Peilz; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Debussy's incidental music to D'Annunzio's mystery play of 1911. Its five scenes: Court of Lilies, the Magic Chamber, Council of the False Gods, the Stricken Laurel and Paradise. Debussy's vaporous music is ideal for the eerie atmosphere of miracles and superstition, and there are some exquisite songs sung in Danco's exquisite soprano...
Died. Maria d'Annunzio, Princess of Monte Nevoso, 94, widow of Italy's famed Poet-Patriot Gabriele (Il Fuoco} d'Annunzio; in Gardone Riviera, Italy...