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632 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1962
Sometimes I think that deep in my personality there are survivals of traits of that primitive race, so poetic, so melancholy, so sensuous and bloody, just as capable of making pacts with demons as of being mystics possessed with mad lyricism, because Bomarzo was saturated with their unknown and fascinating magic…
I have believed and I still believe that some of the beings we call dead are capable of appearing to us under determined conditions. I believe that they are around us constantly. I believe that they are spying on us from the balconies of heaven…
Life and Death, like two allegorical figures, the Naked Woman and the Skeleton, preside in that way by the door that opens into my deepest emotions. Later I will tell how I made use of those symbols in the Wood of Bomarzo.
…when I came into the world something magical, something fabulous had been predicted for me which raised me above my contemporaries and which made of me an individual apart, impregnated with vigilant mystery. And yet I amputated and destroyed my life.
…they all died and their crowns rolled at their feet onto the tattered robes that other princes hastened to put on…








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