Word: fabriano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Annunzio's fame as a writer has always been somewhat mysterious to non-Italians. Nor is the mystery cleared up by D'Annunzio's description of his method: "All I need are 20.000 sheets of my special paper made for me by Miliano di Fabriano, plenty of ink. the sight of 500 quills which have been specially collected for me from geese stripped alive. All this gives me an extraordinary desire to write." Anthony Rhodes, sometime lecturer in English literature at Geneva University, and a London Dally Telegraph correspondent in Eastern Europe, has fought his way through...