Guillaume Apollinaire (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The mother of Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaire (ah-pahl-ee-nehr) de Kostrowitzky, a Polish adventuress, may have been of aristocratic birth; his father has never been positively identified but is said to have been a high church dignitary, perhaps an Italian bishop. Guillaume, their illegitimate son, was born in Rome and baptized in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore; his mother had him christened Wilhelm Apollinaris and gave him her own Polish surname, Kostrowitzky.
His formative years were largely spent in Monte Carlo and other fashionable resorts between which...
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