Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-17
flames Mixed Rewards
For Young Italian Author.

brizio, a priest who endeavors 10 SOW
| the seed which gives the book It's
| name, is the portrait of a certain eccie-
! siast In Rome. OF visionary IDEAS who
cndeavored, as described IN the book, 10
! reform the church through a group
Of young men, For n time he had con-
/ siderable influence. but being offered
an official position for the purpose
! OF sllencing him, he accepted the bribe
/ and vanished from the ranks of the
| reformers.
Fogazzaro has in mind new volume,
I one which is TO avoid all polemics, In
| consequence. II will he entirely different
IN theme from All Santo."
Countess Fanny ZompIni-Salozar Is
one of the few italian authors per-
| sonally known In America, She has
| made two visits to the United States.
| In 1898 she attended the international
congress Mt Chicago. Later. she
lectured upon such subjects as "Wo-
man In Modern Italy" The Religious
Questions IN Italy" Abandoned
! Children In Italy" University life
in Italy" etc, in Cincinnati New York
| and Indianapolis
Her latest book is "The Life and
Work Of Robert Browning and Eliza
beth Browning" for which Sgnor Fo-
gazzaro has written q preface and
Carmen Sylvia added an inscription In
French The letter reads: zone must
take all the sufferinss of ones life,
make a hymn of II and OFFER II to God,
Men VIII understand It later"
FoGAZZARo's PREFACE.
Countess Salazar says she wrote the
book after lecturing much In italy On
, the brownings, ito prove that marriage
| liz no impeachment to intellectual ac-
| tivity for woman" In his preface,
| Fogazzaro. who is a personal friend OF
Countess Salazar, says:
~ had, many years ago. the good
| fortune to hear from the lips of the au-
| thoress the very noble lectures upon the
| Brownings which she gave in some Of
| the cities OF Italy. An old ndm7rer ~
| Robert and Elizabeth Browning, !
congratulated Fanny zampini-solpTar
upon her very generous proposal to re-
mind the Italians of their duty towards
these noble minds l told her that few
modern people, to my mind, can be
| read with so much intellectual pleasure
| together with so much help to the
spirit. If the works of Robert and
| Elizabeth Browning surprise us by the
| vigorous originality of their thought.
| they also show US the rare and salutary
! spectacle of two souls as great In NOR
| al character as In poetic fantasy"
CULTURED WOMAN.
The authoress herself. is a most In
| tcresting and cultured woman who lee
partment of the University Of Rome AT
one time she was editor of the italian
Review" Her home is in Rome on the
via Flaminla and from her windows
may be seen the gardens of the Bor
CHEESE palace and the hills beyond the
city. She is at home on Sunday af-
| ternoons where she and her two beau
| tiful daughters receive the artists ms
/ slcians editors and writers who come
TO pay their respects and salute the
| hand of the author of Cavalier Mod
erni," Though her literary life has
| extended over 20 years, and her hand
some face is framed by hair touched
with white, Countess se,azar rises Mt
| five in the morning and works until
| 10, resuming labor later In the day for
| three or four hours.
| The cause of woman has exercised her
! thoughts and energies and she says