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Gabriele D'Annunzio
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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
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
- Fame69.9
- Momentum1.9
- Italy rank#246
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Updated 2026-06-09
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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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…
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
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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
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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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
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