Gabriele D'Annunzio - Lettera autografa firmata e datata - 1928

Splendid entirely autograph letter, signed and dated at the bottom by the Vate.
Interesting is the letter-paper typical of D'Annunzio with the header: "Semper adamas" whose Latin translation is: "always adamant, always hard" motto of the First Naval Squadron.
Other precious information is found in this missive (perhaps addressed to Buccellati), the name of Melitta, the young Letizia Giupponi De Felici, young wife of one of his clothing suppliers and intimate friend and companion of the author during the last fifteen years of his life. Little was known about this woman until the exhibition held in Cori, his hometown, in April 2025, where the relationships between the two are clarified, evidenced by no less than eight hundred letters. Despite the forty-year age difference, it emerges from the documents recently brought to light that the relationship between Letizia (Melitta) and Gabriele was one of the most important experienced by the great writer. Also precious is the mention of the "calumnioso divieto romano" forbidding the girl to ascend to the Vittoriale. Also curious is the note about payment in full of something we do not know but which could be hypothesized to be directed, precisely, to Buccellati. Short letter, typical of D'Annunzio in handwriting and layout, of great interest for the many details it reveals about the life of the Prince of Montenevoso, in such a brief space.
Last curiosity: it seems that the model for the figurehead of the ship placed at the Vittoriale was indeed Letizia Giupponi De Felici.