Word: speranza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...
...overlooked influence on Wilde's career was his mother, from whom Oscar apparently inherited more than his big, undulant frame. Massive-headed Lady Wilde, who claimed descent from Dante, wrote poetry under the name Speranza, hot-headed Irish patriot propaganda under the name John Fenshawe Ellis. When her hard-drinking, ugly doctor-husband got mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor...