The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-27
Writes So knowingly" That His credl-
tors Agree Not to Demand
Any Pay
ment.
GIVEN A HOME FREE
Citizens Of Town Where He Was Born
Chip In and Donate a
Residence to
Him.
by Henry Wood, Rome correspon.
dent of the United Press.l

ueHl OF the united FreSS.
ROME, April 26--Gabriele Dan
nunzio, Italy's foremost and once exil-
ed poet, is about to be presented with
permanent home in his native land.
The house itself is to be surrounded
with an extensive pine forest, which
is also to be part of the gift, while
the thing as whole is to include all
OF the poetical accessories, natural
and otherwise, calculated by the do
majors as likely to be most eff1cacious
in making D'Annunzios muse turn
out the greatest quantity of poetry,
of the very highest quality, in the
shortest time possible.
The decision to honor D'Annunzio
In this way is the second tangible
proof which the poet has given of
being the most moving" writer of
modern times. 1t is now less than a
year since D'Annunzio wrote SUCH
moving verse that his Italian cred
itors got together and decided to for
give him his debts.
At that time D'Annunzio was living
In France whittier he had been oblig-
ed to fee and become an exile as a
result of the Importantly of his 1tal-
Ian creditors and the rather rigorous
laws in Italy against the gentry that
fails to pay up. Despite this rather
ungrateful treatment on the part of
his fatherland and his fellow citizens.
D'Annunzio, with the breaking out of
the Italian war against Turkey, sung
SO inspiringly the glorious deeds OF
the Italian arms that, as has already
been stated, his italian creditors were
SO moved" as to offer the poet any
conditions he might demand if he
would only come back to his native
land This offer D'Annunzio gracious
ly accepted, imposing the very simple
| stipulation that all Of his debts be
forgiven, which the creditors imme-
diately did.
Now, however, D'Annunzio has CIV
en- still another proof of the moving"
qualities of his verse In little re-
cent poem he sang SO pla1ntively his
desire to return to the town in which
he was born and to live in the pine
woods in which he rambled as boy,
that the citizens of his native town
could not resist. A meeting of the
/ village council of Pescara, a delight
1 full village on the Adriatic coast which
had the honor of letting D'Annunzio
get his first glimpse of daylight, was
] Immediately called A project was at
4 once launched for the purchase OF a
/ permanent home for the poet and the
/ thing is now as good as done. The
4 gift will even be made during the
4 present year which will mark the AT
4 tieth anniversary of the poets birth.
Under the project as approved by
! the village council the tract Of land
4 which is to be included in the gift
i will consist of seven square miles OF
4 D'Annunzio's pine woods" overlook
ing the Adriatic The house will be
/ designed, under the personal supervis.
A ion OF D'Annunzio by Antonio Liberi
one of the best known Of the modern
4 Italian architects. Where nature has
MT fixed I'D the pine woods in such q
way as just to suit the taste OF the
poet, landscape gardeners will be
placed at his disposal to show Mother
Nature what she should have done
Practically anything else that Dan