Word: dario
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Most of the books had never even circulated. However, one volume on versification--a Dario specialty--had been checked out by dozens of students. An inscription in the book reads "To Ruben" and a section in the book describes his poetry...
...confirm his hunch that the University's holdings contained book's from Dario's personal library, Whitesell hunted through Harvard College Library's acquisition records and found correspondence between a book seller in Madrid and the University in 1916, the year of Dario's death...
Whitesell then examined each book for signs that it once belonged to Dario, growing increasingly confident that at least 43 of the 180 had once been part of Dario's personal library...
According to Whitesell, there is a long tradition of Dario scholarship at Harvard. One of the first major studies on his work and the first bibliography on his works in the 1930s were both published at Harvard...
However, Whitesell noted ironically that even with the local interest in Dario, the books in his library were never studied...