Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-02

the relatives OF her late husband
stepped I'm and went TO law TO prove
that she was not sufficiently responsible
to have the management of her chill
dren's money. The courts upheld this
view, and have just appointed the sig
nora's father. the Marquis di Rndini. as
their guardian and the administrator
of their fortune.
UNDER HIS MAGIC SPELL.
All Of which makes It appear as Il
the name of Signora Carlotti would
have 10 be added To those OF the other
women Of prominence, Eleanora Duse
among them, who have come under the
spell OF DAnnun2o's magic personall-
~ and afterward have been sorry for
It. For, although the author Of LA
Cltta Morta" never has been especially
good looking, but pale, thin and cada-
Verous, and although today he Is al
most completely bald, with lines in his
face that tell Enthusiastically what his life
has been, few women or men either,
with whom he has come In contact have
failed 10 be fascinated by him. He is
wonderfully, almost supernaturally,
alive" wrote Robert Hichins of DAN
nunzio. Vitality streams out Of him.
and he knows az few men know how
much older, the first OF Italian poets
and dramatsts Is only 46, His real
name ia Gaetano Rapagnetto, D'Au-
nunzlo being a nom de plume which he
assumed when he began to write,
his FIRST AFFAIR.
His first affair Of the heart with
which gossip concerned itself had as It's
object no other than the mother OF hts
present wife, the Duchess ~ Gallese,
who in her day was among the lOveliest
women In Italy D'Auuun2lo met her
soon after the time when. as a novice
fof 81, he had walked up, like the English
poet whom ~ character he So much re-
sembles, 20 md himself famous His
first book Of verses, primo Nerc,' was
recognized at once as a work of genius.
and since its publication the author has
gone on from success TO success.
IL has often been declared that DAN
nunzlo's romantic adventures are UNI
dertaken primarily ior the sake Of get
ting 'mgterial.' and several of his
novels-'Il Fuoco," for eNample-are
pointed out as only slightly emuctiished
narratives OF personal experiences.
Perhaps his friendship with the Duch-
ess ~ Gallaet was of this order; any
how, Il ended IN a fashion sufficiently
hunillating for that uobleWoman,
who was D'AnnunzlO's senior by more
years than It would be polite To meu-
tlon The duchess and the poet we're
Intimate for several years. during which
time D'Anuuuzio did not fan 60 notice
what promises OF beauty We're given by
the duchess daughter, whose ac-
qualntance ne had FIRST made when she
was schoolgirl in short skirts And
evidently the schoolgirl had noticed the
poet, too-perhops she had read his
verses. AT all events, only q few weeks
after the young lady bad put ON long
skirts the Duchess one day found her
self without either daughter or friend"
and the lS-year-old Duchessinl dl CAL
lese had become the slgnora D'Anuun-
zio.
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND" HIM.
Perhaps D'Annunzio Is right IN as.
sorting that his girl wife did not "un-
derstand' him. Perhaps she judged
masculine conduct from the viewpoint
Of the wife and woman, and failed tc
make allowances for the vagaries OF
the artistic temperament Re that as
u mayin an uncommonly short space OF
time the poet found himself obliged "a
i've his own life" while his wife grad.