The D'Annunzio, Gabriele 1863-1938 creator Boyd, Ernest Augustus 1887-1946 Harding, Georgina Symons, Arthur 1865-1945 text utu 2006 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Child of Pleasure" by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a novel written in 1889. Andrea Sperelli, a young Roman nobleman and aesthete, lives for art and the pursuit of pleasure. He finds himself caught between two women who represent opposing ideals: Elena Muti, a mysterious femme fatale, and Maria Ferres, pure and fragile. As Andrea attempts to possess both, his "double game" leads him toward inevitable ruin in this cornerstone work of Italian Decadentism. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Piacere Release date is 2006-12-04 Produced by Chuck Greif, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Original publication data not identified Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20015 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20015 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133450.0 20015