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Letter of 4 handwritten pages on headed paper "Squadra di San Marco - ti con nu nu con ti", dated Il Vittoriale 5 December 1925, 310 x 235 mm., in a modern frame, addressed to the aviator and General Francesco de Pinedo.
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"My dear companion, it is beautiful - and you certainly know it - it is beautiful that joy is preceded by melancholy. Indeed, sometimes melancholy is almost the veil of joy, which shines through it like a Saracen face. You arrive suddenly in the night; and I hoped to be able to host you, together with my innumerable idols built in some of the countries you have flown over. But it seems that the "ceremonial" prevents you tonight from the threshold of my Hermitage. So I will feel sad that the hero sleeps under a mercenary roof and not under my heroic roof. (...)" De Pinedo really was a hero, in the eyes of d'Annunzio but also of millions of Italians. Just that year, after a few shorter flights, de Pinedo accomplished the feat for which he is eternally remembered: the Melbourne raid. A flight departing from Sesto Calende to Melbourne in 33 stages for 161:00 hours and 23500 km - up to Tokyo in 22 stages for 90:30 hours and 13500 km - up to Rome in 25 stages for 118:30 hours and 18000 km . He will return to Rome on November 7, 1925, and less than a month later he is to greet d'Annunzio at the Vittoriale. Their solid friendship and mutual esteem resulted in the volume MY FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND THE TWO AMERICAS WITH A FOREWORD BY GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO, published in Milan by Hoepli in 1928. And d' Annunzio did not fail to adorn the Vittoriale with a propeller from the seaplane in which de Pinedo made the 55,000 km staged flight in 1925. In short, the two were undoubtedly linked by a common destiny made up of air, propellers, airplanes and flight.
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