ITALY’S GREAT TRIBUTE
TO HOSPITABLE ENGLAND / HOME OF EXILED POET By Telegraph--Press Assn—Copyright liAuatf. and N.Z, Cable) (Received Bee. 22, 0.20' a.m.) London, Dec. 21. The Italian Ambassador here, oil behalf of the Italian Government, presented the. British Government with the, first copy printed of the special eoliteralry edition of Tjgo Foscolo’s poems, prefaced with., the i oil-owing inscription signed by Premier Mussolini : -
~To .IFngland, hospitable to the exile and the (first, burying place el TTjro Foscolo, the head of the Italian Government has. presented this hook on the centenary of the death, of the Italian poet as a. mark of gratitude and a. token of the lasting spintua fellow feeling between the two nations.’,’ * , , . This volume, will he placed m the British Museum. ‘ ■ Foscolo, was buried m Turnhnm Green cemetery, and his remains were transferred tft Florence m 1871.
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 22 December 1927, Page 5
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