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Notturno - A Margellos World Republic of Letters Book Francis L. K. Lim The Pearl That Broke ItsComposed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged, D'Annunzio suffered months of near total blindness and pain wracked infirmity in 1921, and yet he managed to write on small strips of paper, each wide