Dance of Death - Wiegand, Carl FriedrichBiblio.com
Dance of Death - D'A'nnunzio, GabrieleBiblio.com
Triomphe de la Mort.
1923rif. 20150AB1923. Paris Mornay 1923. 21 : 16 cm. 3 loeaves 444 pages 3 leaves with many original woodcuts by S. Sauvage. Half calf binding with red and gold ornamental lines gilt title on spine top edge gilt decorated end-papers. signed Marot Roode. The famous novel by D'Annunmzio illustrated with sensitive woodcuts by Sylvian Sauvage 1888-1948. - In a signed art deco-binding by Marot-Roode. - The story is set in the Abruzzo region the birthplace of the author. The noble aesthete Giorgio Aurispa besotted with his unhappily-married lover Ippolita leaves Rome after witnessing a suicide. After a brief interlude with Ippolita in Albano Giorgio receives a telegram from his mother who lives in the small mountain village of Guardiagrele. Giorgio arrives in the beautiful city of stone and is fascinated by the sculptures; however he is equally haunted by popular superstitions and the memories of the suicide of his uncle Demetrio whom he had loved as a father. Worse Giorgio discovers that his actual father has squandered the family fortune forcing his mother and siblings to live in poverty while he carries on with a prostitute. Giorgio curses his father abandoning his family and runs to the sea buying a house on a hill in San Vito Chietino. Ippolita joins him and the two pursue a summer of decadent languor marred only by Giorgio's developing paranoia towards her. Giorgio is additionally obsessed with death and matters only become worse after the pair undertake a pilgrimage to the shrine of Casalbordino where the multitude of desperate supplicants begging cures of the statue of the Madonna drives them away in horror. While Giorgio becomes more and more unmoored and desperate to leave both Abruzzo and what he perceives as Ippolita's unwholesome influence she remains amused and fascinated by their surroundings. Finally Giorgio decides that his only recourse is to carry her over a seaside cliff killing the both of them. unknown
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