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...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...The aesthetic ideals of Gabriele D’Annunzio were well established long before the writer became a national war hero....
...The UK’s most prestigious award for non-fiction, the £20,000 Samuel Johnson prize, has been awarded to Lucy Hughes-Hallett for The Pike, her biography of Gabriele d’Annunzio (1883-1938), the “repellent”...
...Tito Ricordi’s infernal libretto, based on D’Annunzio, suggests artificially sweetened Dante. For two acts the score dabbles in busy music that steadfastly avoids grand climaxes....
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