Word: soldier-poet
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That night the concierges of numerous hotels explained. The Duke of Aosta, gracious cugino (cousin) of His Majesty Vittorio Emanuele, had merely been greeted with the honors due his rank when he called upon famed Soldier-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio at the latter's villa beside the lake...
...Rome, at a filming of Quo Vadis, a cinema lioness became "highly excited," jumped over the barrier, landed upon an aged "super," mauled him ferociously. The super died. Young Gabrielino d'Annunzio, son of Italy's famed soldier-poet, who was one of three directing the filming, had no lion license, was sought by the carabinieri...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet : "At Gardone, Italy, I stayed in my garden while rain was falling and a terrific wind blowing. When members of my household urged me to take shelter from the elements, I replied: 'I must hear the sound of the waves, the whistle of the wind and the fall of the raindrops. To write one must be next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "In a chapel designed by me in the garden of my villa at Lake Garda I held night rites alone, burned laurel, scattered the ashes over the grave of an unknown soldier there. A newspaper despatch said that the ceremony excited artistic circles, that it was proposed that others perform similar rites for me when...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet: "A Eucharistic Congress at Zagre, Yugo-Slavia, was attended by a papal legate named Pilegrinetti. This holy man was met at the station by an emotional crowd of nuns and monks cheering loudly. The reason for his warm reception was that the Italian for ' papal legate ' is ' nunzio.' The good Yugo-Slavs had confounded their guest with me and were greeting him by my name...