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...CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT (229 pp.)-Anthony Powell-Little, Brown...
...life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later proposed kidnaping Pope Benedict XV in an airplane and dropping him into the Adriatic), hailed D'Annunzio as "the prodigious seducer, the ineffable descendant of Casanova and Cagliostro...
...Casanova role, D'Annunzio seemed at his most laughable-as was demonstrated by his celebrated affair with Actress Eleonora Duce. For once, his histrionics met their match; when she found another woman's hairpins in his guest room, she threatened to burn down his villa "because the temple has been profaned. Flame alone can purify it." But there was nothing preposterous about the poet when he left his muse and Duse to go to the wars. In 1915 D 'Annunzio was living on his fame in Paris, a revered symbol of Italy's risorgimento. but also...
...none," says one fellow's wife). But the men on Janiculum hill have little complaint beyond the plumbing. Stimulated by endless debates on life, art and talent in the atmosphere of ancient Rome, they have grown in every way. "Before I came here," says San Francisco Architect Aldo Casanova, 31, "I only studied and taught. Now, in what is supposed to be seclusion, I feel as though I have been exposed to the real world for the first time...
...Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist tells tall tales of his libertine youth...