Gabriele d'Annunzio's loss of power at. Fiume also loses him-an opportunity which he had long awaited to make possible a: new matrimonial adventure.
It is learned, says the Rome correspondent of the "Central News," that just before the crisis arose over the Rapallo treaty the poet-warrior drew up the preliminaries action for divorce from his wife, Princess Marie de Galloso, from whom he has been separated for 30 years, and intended to have the case dealt with by the Court in Fiume.
Had the suit been successful—and, of course, d'Annunzio as dictator would have seen to that—he would have lost no time in fulfilling a long-standing promise to Mile. Luisella Baccara to marry her.
Oxe Day's Courtsuip, Mile. Baccara is 26 years of age and a pianist of great talent, having given concerts in all the principal towns and cities of italy, and last year one at Fiume.
It was during this latter entertainment that d'Annunzio was captivated by her charm, for she is a tall, handsome young woman, with large black eyes and jet-black hair, and the next day he confessed his love for her.
The newspaper "Epoca" has come into possession of one of d'Annunzio's recent letters, _in which he goes into ecstasies over this Italian beauty.
"Sue is Tap Maponna!'""
"In_these moments of anguish," he wrote, "'Luisella Baccara is a sure oasis of constant goodness and immutable affection. She is to me as a sister, a saint; more, she is the Madonna!"
Several Italian papers state that Mile. Baccara was not only the poet's fiancee, but his secretary, ambassadress and counsellor.
Latterly she attended all the Executive meetings over which d'Annunzio presided, and it is said that the Dictator took no decision without first consulting her.
Further, it is declared she undertook several diplomatic missions on his behalf. Before going to Fiume Mile. Baccara lived in a luxurious mansion in Venice at d'Annunzio's expense. the churches and has destroyed the faith of multitudes—Darwin, with a look of agony, deploring it all, and saying, "I was a young man with unformed ideas." Urging: his issiter, he said: "Do gather servants, tenants, and neighbours together, and preach to them Jesus Christ. I know you read the Bible in the villages."
This remarkable picture of Darwin is a challenge to every Modernist with new ideas to spring on the world. What a crushing criticism of the whole evolutionary movement—based entirely on the "unformed ideas'' of a young man.
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