Front matter
Dora Knowlton Ranous translation
THE LITERATURE OF ITALY
consists of sixteen volumes, of which this one forms a part. For full particulars of the edition see the Official Certificate bound in the volume entitled
"A HISTORY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE."
Literature of Italy 1265 1907.
Edited by Rossiter Johnson and Dora Knowlton Ranous
With a General Introduction by William Michael Rossetti and Special Introductions by James, Cardinal Gibbons, Charles Eliot Norton, S. G. W. Benjamin, William S, Walsh, Maurice Francis Egan, and others New translations, and former renderings compared and revised
Translators: James C. Brogan, Lord Charlemont, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hartley Coleridge, Florence Kendrick Cooper, Lady Dacre, Theodore Dwight, Edward Fairfax, Ugo Foscolo, G. A. Greene, Sir Thomas Hoby, William Dean Howells, Luigi Monti, Evangeline M. O'Connor, Thomas Okey, Dora Knowlton Ranous, Thomas Roscoe, William Stewart Rose, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, John Addington Symonds, William S. Walsh, William Wordsworth, Sir Thomas Wyatt
THE FLAME
(IL FUOCO)
BY
GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO
TRANSLATED BY DORA KNOWLTON RANOUS
.... fa come natura face in foco.
—DANTE
THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION ix
BOOK I THE EPIPHANY OF THE FLAME.
CHAPTER I—The Bells of San Marco 1
CHAPTER II—The Face of Truth 30
CHAPTER III—The Nuptials of Autumn and Venice 40
CHAPTER IV—The Spirit of Melody 67
CHAPTER V—The Epiphany of the Flame 77
CHAPTER VI—The Poet's Dream 95
CHAPTER VII—The Promise 123
CHAPTER VIII—"To Create with Joy!" 134
BOOK II THE EMPIRE OF SILENCE.
CHAPTER I—"In Time!" 147
CHAPTER II—After the Storm 156
CHAPTER III—A Fallen Giant 173
CHAPTER IV—The Master's Vision 181
CHAPTER V—Sofia 201
CHAPTER VI—A Brother to Orpheus 209
CHAPTER VII—Only One Condition 221
CHAPTER VIII—Illusions 231
CHAPTER IX—The Labyrinth 239
CHAPTER X—The Power of the Flame 262
CHAPTER XI—Reminiscence 270
CHAPTER XII—Cassandra's Reincarnation 291
CHAPTER XIII—The Story of the Archorgan 304
CHAPTER XIV—The World's Bereavement 319
CHAPTER XV—The Last Farewell 333
ILLUSTRATIONS
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"O espousals of Paris, fatal to the beloved!"—(Page 298) Frontispiece
He gazed deep into her eyes, and saw that she was as pale as if her blood had been sapped to nourish the rich fruits of the garden 130
He watched the woman turning and running like a mad creature along the dark, delusive paths 259