Word: sospiri
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when...
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