De Italiaans schrijver, dichter en politicus Gabriele d’Annunzio werd geboren in Pescara op 12 maart 1863. Zie ook alle tags voor Gabriele d’Annunzio op dit blog.
Uit: The Drowned Boy (Vertaald door Thomas Walsh)
„All of a sudden, Albadora, the septuagenarian Cybele, she who had given life to twenty-two sons and daughters, came toiling up the narrow lane into the court, and indicating the neighboring shore, where it skirted the promontory on the left, announced breathlessly:–
“Down yonder there has been a child drowned!”
Candia made the sign of the cross. Giorgio arose and ascended to the loggia, to observe the spot designated. Upon the sand, below the promontory, in close vicinity to the chain of rocks and the tunnel, he perceived a blotch of white, presumably the sheet which hid the little body. A group of people had gathered around it.
As Ippolita had gone to mass with Elena at the chapel of the Port, he yielded to his curiosity and said to his entertainers:–
“I am going down to see.”
“Why?” asked Candia. “Why do you wish to put a pain in your heart?”
Hastening down the narrow lane, he descended by a short cut to the beach, and continued along the water. Reaching the spot, somewhat out of breath, he inquired:–
“What has happened?”
The assembled peasants saluted him and made way for him. One of them answered tranquilly:–
“The son of a mother has been drowned.”
Another, clad in linen, who seemed to be standing guard over the corpse, bent down and drew aside the sheet.”

Gabriele d’Annunzio (12 maart 1863 – 1 maart 1938)
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