To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword
of warning before you peruse the contents of this book.
I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither
poems nor prose. Just dreams - Day Dreams - a bit of
romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, not
studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest
of masters! . . . Nature!
While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly
kept from my preferred and actual field of activity, I took
to dreams to forget the tediousness of worldly strife and the
boredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette.
Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring
you as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought to
me in the writing.
Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed »The Latin Lover«, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including »The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse«, »The Sheik«, »Blood and Sand«, »The Eagle«, and »The Son of the Sheik.«
Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the »Latin Lover« (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the »Great Lover«, or simply »Valentino«. His early death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans, further cementing his place in early cinematic history as a cultural film icon.
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