Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War, (Paperback)

from Shrike58

A sprawling portrait of a singularly bizarre individual; d'Annunzio, by all rights, should have been in disgrace and shunned a hundred times over before World War I for his sexual and financial misadventures but he instead channeled his aesthetic gifts and his own Nietzschean will to power (or at...

from stephengoldenberg

A fascinating history of a fascinating and little known man. The book is very cleverly and entertainingly structured, not a straight chronological telling of his life. It gives a chilling insight into the nature of fascism and how it was able to take such a grip in countries like Italy - particul...

from picardyrose

Sociopath.

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This is a mammoth biography of the Italian godfather of fascism, Gabriele d'Annunzio. Claimed as Italy's greatest living poet and playwright in his day, he was lauded by Mussolini. D'Annunzio, in turn, detested Mussolini and considered him a "crude imitator". He equally detested Hitler. He embrac...

from aadyer

A brilliant, scholarly, yet well paced narrative describing the life, times, & events in Gabriele D'Annunzio's life. Whilst this is also a documentation of the development of fascism from an Italian point of view, this is more a close character study of a promiscuous, drug addled icon of that mov...