V2nd - Chapter 9 - that farking icehole D'Annunzio

[Michael Bailey]

apparently that bastidge's writing was really farking good, they all said...

"He published his first poetry while still at school at the age of
sixteen with a small volume of verses called Primo Vere (1879),
influenced by Giosuè Carducci's Odi barbare, in which, side by side
with some almost brutal imitations of Lorenzo Stecchetti, the
fashionable poet of Postuma, were some translations from the Latin,
distinguished by such agile grace that Giuseppe Chiarini on reading
them brought the unknown youth before the public in an enthusiastic
article. In 1881 D'Annunzio entered the University of Rome La
Sapienza, where he became a member of various literary groups,
including Cronaca Bizantina and wrote articles and criticism for local
newspapers."




and, pursuant to our discussion of _V._ - he was himself defenestrated!

"temporarily crippled and shocked after an attempted murder in 1922.
Shortly before the march on Rome, he was pushed out of a window by an
unknown assailant, surviving but badly injured and did not completely
recover before Mussolini had been appointed Prime Minister"



-- 
"Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respects a
violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural
liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the
whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all
governments, of the most free as well as of the most despotical." -
Adam Smith