Henry de Montherlant and his writings on d'Annunzio.

Henry de Montherlant (1895.1972)

Letter signed to Guy Tosi.

One page, octavo. Paris. October 19, 1971

“Dear Sir, I intend to include the following pages on d’Annunzio in my new Notebooks , to be published in March. I would be pleased to know if they reflect your opinion. In any case, please do not return them. As I believe I wrote to you once before, you can telephone me one morning at “Littré 78-84,” if that saves you the trouble of writing. Thank you for your summer postcard from Italy. Please accept, dear Sir, the assurance of my warmest regards. Henry de Montherlant”

Guy Tosi (1910-2000) was a professor of Italian and comparative literature at the Sorbonne and the leading French specialist on Gabriele d'Annunzio, who was the subject of his doctoral thesis. From 1943 to 1952, as a reader and then literary director at Éditions Denoël, he edited, among others, the works of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Blaise Cendrars, Curzio Malaparte, and Henry Miller. Appointed director of the French Institute in Florence (1954-1962), he subsequently returned to a professorship at the Sorbonne.