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Excerpt from Francesca Da Rimini Mr. Henley has made for himself a rough, service able metre in unrhymed verse, full of twitching nerves and capable of hurrying or dragging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from The Romances of the Lily: The Maidens of the Rocks Did I in truth know them in the intimate tedious ness of every day life, or were they instead the crea tions of my desire and my perplexity? I ask myself the question so often, and always the answer rises, They were the creatures both of your incertitude and your desire, they were the tried friends of daily fellowship, and that passage of my life's woof that they unconsciously sp...

Excerpt from The Dead City A large and luminous room, opening on a pillared loggia facing the ancient city of the Pelopidae. The loggia is raised from the level of the room by five stone steps arranged in the form of a truncated pyramid, as before the vestibule of a temple. Two Doric columns support the architrave. In the distance is seen the Acropolis with its venerable Cyclopean walls, broken by the Gate of the Lions. On each side of the ro...

Excerpt from The Dead City: A Tragedy In The Dead City, Eleonora Duse takes the part of Anna, the blind woman, a part of renunci ation, the part of a resigned soothsayer, as in La Gioconda, her task, as the poet Gabriele d'ano nunzio expresses it, is to speak of all the beauti ful things in the shadow of an antique statue. And Duse Speaks of these beautiful things with the sweetest 'music of her voice, which encircles the beautiful phrases, a...

Excerpt from Tragedy in Four Acts In her beautiful apartments, Francesca is reading the storv of Lancelot and Guenevere to her Women. They then dance and sing in celebration of the advent of Spring, until, on a whispered word from her slave, Francesca dismisses them. Paolo, sick with longing for her, has returned from Florence. He enters, they continue reading the story of Guenevere together, until, no longer master of their feelings, they le...

Excerpt from Gioconda A quiet, foursquare room, in which the arrangement of everything indicates a search after a singular harmony, revealing the secret of a profound correspondence between the visible lines and the quality of the inhabiting mind that has chosen and loved them. All around seems to have been set in order by the hands of one of the thoughtful Graces. The aspect of the place evokes the image of a gentle and secluded life. Two l...

Excerpt from IL Ferro: Dramma in Tre AttiAh, non posso. Son corsa su per un at timo, soltanto per guardarmi un momento ne' tuoi occhi. Ho lasciato giù Enzo, sai.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

The Child of Pleasure (written in 1888 and published in 1889) and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence. Sperelli is a young count, who - like Joris Karl Huysmans' Baron Des Esseintes or Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray - following family tradition, seeks beauty and despises the bourgeois world, leads an extraordinary life, which he lives as a work of art, and reject...

Excerpt from Episcopo Company You say you want to know - What do you want to know, sir? What must I tell you? What? Everything? Well, I must tell you all from the beginning! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the...

Excerpt from L'InnocenteC'erano stati pochissimi dialoghi tra noi, e brevi, in proposito, nei quali io non avevo mai mentito, credendo con la mia sincerità dimi nuire la mia colpa agli occhi di quella dolce e nobile donna che io sapevo intellettuale.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Francesca da Rimini: Tragedia in Quattro AttiAppare una corte, nelle case dei Polentani, contigua a un giardino che brilla di là da una chiusura di marmi traforati in guisa di transenne. Ricorre per l'alto una loggia che a destra corrisponde con le camere gentilesche e di fronte, aerata su le sue colonnette, mostra avere una duplice veduta. Ne discende, a manca, una scala leggera. Una grande porta è a destra, e una bassa line stra...

Pubblicato in tre puntate sulla "Nuova Antologia" nel 1891 e in volume l'anno seguente, il romanzo breve "Giovanni Episcopo" è uno dei testi più interessanti e meno studiati dell'opera dannunziana. È la confessione di un delitto compiuto dal protagonista, un travet piccoloborghese, condannato fatalmente a condizione di "umiliato e offeso". Sul modello narrativo in parte dostoevskijano e in parte derivatogli dal romanzo psicologico francese e d...

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Andare davanti al giudice, dirgli: 'Ho commesso un delitto. Quella povera creatura non sarebbe morta se io non l'avessi uccisa. Io Tullio Hermil, io stesso l'ho uccisa. Ho premeditato l'assassinio, nella mia casa. L'ho compiuto con una perfetta lucidità di conscienza, esattamente, nella massima sicurezza. Poi ho seguitato a vivere col mio segreto nella mia casa, un anno intero, fino ad oggi. Oggi è l'anniversario. Eccomi nelle vostre mani. Asc...

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Excerpt from The Flame: IL Fuoco His next important novel, ll lrionfo delamorte The Triumph of Death) was produced in 1896. This brought upon him a storm of mingled applause and criticism admiration for its marvelous beauty of literary expression, condemnation of the realistic study of a degenerate whose sins lead him to suicide. But, with a proud defiance of criticism, with eyes fixed only on his art, he dared after this achievement to write...

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