Word: dario
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After the proverbial "sleepless night," Whitesell returned in the morning and compared the handwriting in the book to known samples of Dario's writing and found them to be identical...
Once he flipped over the small red-bound book, Whitesell realized that its back was inscribed with Dario's name, the year 1901 and a title...
When he opened the back cover he found pages of manuscript poetry in the same handwriting--it appeared that Dario had written new poems on the blank pages of the slim volume...
...very intrigued and a bit skeptical," Whitesell said. "It didn't seem to be that I could just open a book and find manuscript poetry from Ruben Dario...
...looked at Dario's collected poems and found that two had been previously published," he says. "Here were the earliest known drafts with textual differences, but the final two I couldn't find anywhere. They were presumably unknown and unpublished...