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Gabriele D'Annunzio

Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938) · Italy · Writers · Died at 74

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He wrote decadent poetry, seduced actresses in public view, flew a plane over Vienna during the war, then seized a city and declared himself Duce with a constitution that made music the state's founding principle. The aesthetics and rhetoric he invented would be borrowed wholesale by Mussolini.

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  1. The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress.

    The Flame, Own words

  2. And in the kisses, what deep sweetness! There are women's mouths that seem to ignite with love the breath that opens them.

    The Child Of Pleasure, Own words

  3. It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass.

    The Book of the Virgins, Own words

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Gabriele D'Annunzio rose to prominence in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910, aligned with the Decadent movement - sensuous, mystical, a turn from naturalism - and influenced by Nietzsche. His affairs with women like Eleonora Duse and Luisa Casati kept his name in the papers; his politics swung from socialism to nationalism. World War I remade him: he fought with the elite Arditi, flew the daring Flight over Vienna, and became a national hero. In 1919, enraged by the Paris Peace Conference, he seized Fiume and established the Italian Regency of Carnaro with himself as Duce, writing a corporatist charter that enshrined music as the state's fundamental principle. The venture was short-lived, but the ideas and aesthetics he forged there - part prophecy, part theater - shaped the fascism that followed, even as he inspired early Italian socialists and resisters alike.

Country
Italy
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1863 to 1938 · aged 74

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