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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Child of Pleasure, by Gabriele D'Annunzio This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Child of Pleasure Author: Gabriele D'Annunzio Commentator: Ernest Boyd Translator: Georgina Harding Arthur Symons Release Date: December 4, 2006 [EBook #20015] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILD OF PLEASURE *** Produced by Chuck Greif, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: although a number of obvious typographical errors in the printed work have been corrected, the original orthography of the book has been retained. This includes a number of compound words, normally hyphenated, which retain their hyphenlessness.] _The_ CHILD OF PLEASURE GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO TRANSLATED BY GEORGINA HARDING VERSES TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR SYMONS INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST BOYD [Illustration: The Modern Library logo] THE MODERN LIBRARY PUBLISHERS :: :: NEW YORK _Manufactured in the United States of America Bound for_ THE MODERN LIBRARY _by H. Wolff_ INTRODUCTION It is characteristic of the atmosphere of legend in which Gabriele d'Annunzio has lived that even the authenticity of his name has been disputed. It was said that his real name was Gaetano Rapagnetta, and the curious will find amongst the Letters of James Huneker the boast that he was the first person to reveal to America the fact that d'Annunzio's name was "Rapagnetto"--a purely personal contribution to the legend. Yet, the plain fact, as proven by his birth certificate, is that the author of "The Child of Pleasure" was born at Pescara, on the 12th of March, 1863, the son of Francesco Paolo d'Annunzio and Luisa de Benedictis. _Il Piacere_, to give this novel its Italian name, was published when d'Annunzio was only twenty-six years of age, and except for an unimportant and imitative
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