Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-19
Especial Correspondence
LORENCE. Feb. S.-Like all
. else in Italy. the literary world

'cPeclal correspondence
r LORENCE, Feb. S.-Like all
II else In Italy. the literary world
i is changing vlsibly, the announce
ments for 1910 having about
them progressively modern sound
Donna Paola. for instance, the we'll
known woman writer. announces
through Barone OF Verona. romance
Of the aeroplane. entitled "Sempresu."
At the same time it is question
whether a reporter in any other land
sent to interview a great writer would
retreat and announce through his
paper that 1t WAS much more his duty
to leave the busy author undisturbed
Such, however, Is the latest story told
81, forse che no. and will be out this
porter sent to interview him In his
retreat at Marina dl Pisa. was told
that the poet. turned novelist. was
writing night and day to finish the
novel announced by Treves for 1910.
and for literature's sake he left him
undisturbed and took the train back
to Florence. The novel is "Forse che
forse che no." and VIII be out this
month. TreVes. also. announces a
d Annunzio anthology.
D'Annunzio has agreed to write n
preface for a monumental edition OF
Dante to be published in Florence
The critical comments are to be by
Conte Passerlnl The volumes are to
be superbly illustrated. The conclu-
sion Is that dAnnunzjo, by this an
nouncement. indicates that he proposes
TO continue his scheme of writing lives
of illustrious men. begun two years
ago with that of Cola di RienZi.
WOMEN TO THE FRONT.
A significant feature OF the Italian
literary world is the increasing part
played by the woman element. The
Tribuna of Rome has taken on its
staff the writer known as Rossana.
Mathilde Eerao. who has just tram
slated alberto. Prince OF Monaco. the
Career of a Navigator" has her own
newspaper In Naples. "L'IllustraZione
Italiana,' the Italian "Harpers
Weekly OF golfers" announces It's
new serial to be by Grazia Deledda.
III Nuovo Padrone" by name: the
''Sccolo NX'' Is publishing stories by
the woman poet and writer 'Teresah:"
the Donna has lis stan of women
writer's who have set the example i'm
Italy OF a special edition at Christmas;
Lady Jane Cray is the novelist of
Calabria, and Dora Melegari has taken
her position az a recognized writer on
psychology and has started a new
school of novels for the home with her
'Plccola Madnmlsella Cristina."
Contessa Fanny Zampini SalaZar. has
introduced the BroNnings to an
Italian public and by her novels and
magazine articles taken a position in
the world of letters.
Then. too. though as yet unknown to
fame. Signorina Celia Allegri. herself
totally blind and but 20 years old. has
translated into Italian The Life OF
Helen Kellar." announced among the
new books for 1910.
Rossana. whose real name Is the
Marchesa TartarIn. is before the pub
lie this year as a dramatlst reSu-
lar journalist. the first woman lnspec-
tor or prisons in Italy, and a lecturer.
once seen, she is never forgotten. and
the saying is that official doors as well
as all hearts, open wide at the sound
OF her wonderful voice. For over an
hour at time she s holding her au-
diences this winter spell-bound, as she
lectures on the child prisoners OF italy.