ANNUNZIO GABRIELE D´: (1863-1938) Prince of Montenevoso. Italian Writer, Poet and WWI Soldier. Known as ''The Prophet'

ANNUNZIO GABRIELE D´: (1863-1938) Prince of Montenevoso. Italian Writer, Poet and WWI Soldier. Known as ''The Prophet''. A good A.L.S., Gabriele d´Annunzio, (a large and attractive underlined signature), one page, 4to, n.p. [Paris], n.d., [25th June 1913, to Doctor Pozzi, in French. On his personal printed stationery bearing to the heading one of his printed devises ''Me Ne Frego'' (''I don´t give a damn''), d´Annunzio states `My dear Doctor, when I accepted the meeting at two, I did not realize that tomorrow I have friends for lunch and will not be free before four. Would you be so kind to give me an appointment time after four or before noon?..´ Very small overall age wear with small creasing to the borders, otherwise G £250-350 Samuel-Jean Pozzi (1846-1918) French Surgeon. He established the first Chair of Gynecology in Paris in 1884 and few years later performed the first gastroenterostomy in France. In 1913, the year the present letter was written, Pozzi and Georges Clemenceau organized the first transplant symposium in Paris. Pozzi became a military surgeon joining the forces during WWI. He died assassinated by a patient who shot him and committed suicide later.