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...Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking in rhetorical rather than literal terms...
...intermediaries with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Of the quid pro quo only half was disclosed. What Franco got was not revealed, though he was rumored to have bought the lives of several prominent Whites; but what General Miaja got was his great big bouncing family: Mother Miaja, Daughters Pepita, Concha, Luisa and Teresa, and Son Emilio...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...
...long (449 pages), rambling, historical novel, Sanfelice strikes a contemporary note in its exhaustive discussion of the ephemeral Republic of Naples, established after the revolution of 1799 and overthrown a few months later. Central figure of the novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous...
...settled the city, then of the Great Fire (i. e. earthquake) with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...