Notes on the Italian People

Title

Notes on the Italian People

Creator

Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938

Identifier

WWP15585

Date

1919 January 3

Description

Cary T. Grayson notes Woodrow Wilson’s comments on the Italian people.

Source

Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia

Language

English

Text

Michael Angelo
Garbriel De d’Annuncio
Poet & Soldier
Arms & Art
Ever since Virgil wrote his story of the founding of Rome. The twin characteristics of the R Italian people has been the art and arms—The great poets & the great painters have so often been great soldiers—as such. Angelo—The first poet & the first painter of his time so he was the greatest warrior of his time.

The Italian people—more than other race have always linked beauty with patriotism, so when this war came the poet; the poet, the novelist of Italy whose work was best known in America naturally doned the uniform of an aviator & became the inspiration of the Italian army—I pledge a toast to Gabriel d’Annuncio—How did you come to fall in—Rough Elements rose up—& demanded representateFrom now on—One language—one race—Our natural freinds—our blood relations—speaks the same language—One & inseparable now & forever—

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/D06391.pdf

Citation

Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938, “Notes on the Italian People,” 1919 January 3, WWP15585, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.