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Wingless Victory - A Biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio and Eleonora Duse

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Wingless Victory- A BIOGRAPHY OF GABRIELS D ANNUNZIO AND ELEONORA DUSE by Frances Win-war . Contents include: NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix PART ONE i. WHAT S IN A NAME 3 n. AT THE SIGN OF THE STORK 13 in. THE ACCIDENT 24 iv. FIRST LOVE 35 v. THE GIFTS OF THE CHIMERA 48 vi. THE FIRST VISION OF ST. SEBASTIAN 59 vn. LOVE AND THE ROMAN ELEGIES 66 vm. THE NOVELS OF THE ROSE 79 ix. THE SICILIAN PRINCESS 91 x. THE ALLEGORY OF AUTUMN 102 PART TWO XL ELEONORA DUSE 111 xn. THE SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR 124 xm. THE GUIDE AND FRIEND 135 xiv. PERDITA AND STELIO 145 xv. TRUTH BEHIND FICTION 154 xvi. ELEONORA DUSE AND SARAH BERNHARDT 161 xvn. LOVE AND LABOR 174 xvm. THE GREAT POETIC PERIOD 185 xix. THE KEEPER OF THE FLAME 195 xx. NIKE 203 PART THREE xxi. WINGLESS VICTORY 215 xxn. DONATELLA CROSS LIFE COPIES ART 226 xxm. SELF-EXILED IN FRANCE 238 xxiv. THE SAINT AND THE VATICAN 250 xxv. DEATH, Music AND WAR 259 xxvi. THE WARRIOR POET 272 xxvn. WINGS FOR VICTORY 282 xxvm. THE PASSION OF FIUME 293 xxix. THE LAST JOURNEY HOME 307 xxx. PRISONER OF THE VITTORIALE 322 NOTES 335 BIBLIOGRAPHY 357 INDEX 365 NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This is not a definitive biography for no work that has life as its root can ever be rigidly set. Nor can one claim to have said the last word while there is a creative mind capable of a new idea or an origi nal interpretation. It has been the authors aim, through exhaustive research and objective handling of newly uncovered facts, to come as close as possible to essential truth, clouded for many years by passion and prejudice, particularly regarding Eleanora Duse, d Annunzio and Fuoca and, later, the Comandantes role in the First World War. The publication of pertinent material, available for the first time in a biography, may help to reveal the characters in their true light, with all their faults, which were great, and with their virtues, which were greater still. ....
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