Cap. 4 – GIUSEPPINA (4) Quando Francesco tornò disse a Gabriele che purtroppo alla Questura ignoravano l’accaduto e che quell’ordine strano non era stato impartito da loro. Escludevano perciò che quelle due persone in divisa fossero dei veri agenti, considerando anche il contegno brutale tenuto da uno di loro. Ad ogni modo, l’ispettore Adorni promise… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾XVIII☽🖋️
Cap. 4 – GIUSEPPINA (2) Lei aveva trentacinque anni, otto meno di Gabriele D’Annunzio, quando si incontrarono all’esposizione dei vini di Milano nel 1906, dove la Mancini si era recata col marito, conte Lorenzo, produttore e gran consumatore di vino. Il loro rapporto fu solo epistolare durante l’estate trascorsa dal mio Vate alla Versiliana. Ricordate… Read More Le donne del mio Vate – ☾XVII☽🖋️
On the morning of the battle Nelson went down to his cabin.As usual, most of his furniture and personal belongings had already been packed up and stowed in the hold, in clearing for action, including Emma’s miniature he usually kept hanging beside his bed. There were only a few essential items left, like his portable… Read More Horatio Nelson: Trafalgar & Jeanette (part 39)
After the engagement with her cousin was broken, it was not difficult for Eleonora‘s father, Don Clemente Fonseca, to find her a new suitor, thanks also to the conspicuous dowry that she would bring.The choice fell on a Bourbon army officer, Pasquale Tria de Solis, 44 years old, belonging to the small Neapolitan nobility, and… Read More Lady Hamilton, Nelson and Neapolitan Patriots: Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca/II (part 19)
December 22 is the death anniversary of English novelist and poet Mary Ann Evans, born in 1819, who died in London in 1880. She is best known by her pen name George Eliot, a male name adopted in partly to hide her gender, and partly to disguise her irregular social position, living as an unmarried… Read More George Eliot’s Husbands (1)
American poet Anne Sexton (see here) was born on 9 November 1928 Housewife Some women marry houses.It’s another kind of skin; it has a heart,a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.The walls are permanent and pink.See how she sits on her knees all day,faithfully washing herself down.Men enter by force, drawn back like Jonahinto their… Read More Housewife
“By the sound of the children you knew the calendar day. By their screams you knew what evening it was. You knew it was very late in the year. October. The last day of October, with white bone masks and cut pumpkins and the smell of dropped candle wax[…]He had never liked October. Ever since… Read More “He had never liked October…”🎃
English Romantic writer Mary Shelley was born on 30 August 1797, in London.Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirthMary Shelley is famous for her “Frankenstein”, published when she was 21. None of her works published later matched the power… Read More Mary Shelley’s Stanzas
Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse; soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto. Per più fïate li occhi ci sospinse quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disïato riso esser basciato da cotanto amante, questi, che mai da me… Read More Paolo and Francesca (1) ➡️ Byron
In 1929 Bessie Smith learned of her husband’s affair with another singer, and she decided to end their relationship, although neither of them ever sought a divorce. The other woman was Gertrude Saunders, who remained infamously known for that affair with Jack Gee. Gee had proposed to set up a new show for… Read More Bessie Smith vs. Gertrude Saunders
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