He was well enough to conduct a private performance of his Symphony in C at the Liceo Martello on Christmas Eve.

He died quietly on the February 13th following, and was buried at Bayreuth.

In D'Annunzio's Venetian novel _Il Fuoco_, called, in its English translation, _The Flame of Life_, is most curiously woven the personality of Wagner, his ideals and theories, and his life and death in this city.

It was D'Annunzio who composed the tablet on the wall.
The palace has an imposing but forbidding facade, and a new kind of lion peers over the balcony.

On the facade is the motto "Non nobis, Domine." Another garden spreads before the new wing on the right, and a fine acacia-tree is over the gateway.