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D'Annunzio, Gabriele - gäbrēĕˈlā dän-noonˈtsyō 1863–1938, Italian poet, novelist, dramatist and soldier, b. Pescara. He went to Rome in 1881 and there began his literary career. The richly sensuous imagery of even his early poetry—Le primavere della mala pianta [the springtime of the evil plant] (1880) and Canto nuovo [new song] (1882)—displayed his unrivaled literary craftsmanship. His novels—Il piacere (1889, tr. The Child of Pleasure, 1898), L'innocente (1892, tr. The Intruder, 1898, and The Victim, 1914), Giovanni Episcopo (1892, tr. Episcopo & Company, 1896), and Il trionfo della morte (1894, tr. The Triumph of Death, 1896)—show the same creative handling of the Italian language, but the works are shallow and theatrical. The outbreak of World War I found him in France, where he had lived since 1910. He returned to Italy, where his oratory had much to do with persuading Italy to join the Allies, and fought with spectacular daring in the air force. In Sept., 1919, he led an expedition (known as the march on Ronchi) against Fiume, where he established a rule opposed by both the Italian government and the rest of Europe, which lasted until Jan., 1921. His troops in the Fiume raid introduced the black shirt that was to be the uniform of the fascists. D'Annunzio, one of the few writers to be courted by Mussolini, was an early exponent of Fascism. His book Notturrno (1921) is a moving analysis of sensations and memories during weeks of blindness from which he partially recovered. He added little in later life to the long list of his works. His plays include Il sogno d'un mattino di primavera (1897, tr. The Dream of a Spring Morning, 1902), Il sogno d'un tramonto d'autunno (1898, tr. The Dream of an Autumn Sunset, 1904), La città morta (1898, tr. The Dead City, 1902), and Francesca (1902, tr. Francesca da Rimini, 1902). Most of these were written during the time of his love affair with Eleonora Duse, which he described with cruel candor in the novel Il fuoco (1900; tr. The Flame of Life, 1900). Mussolini appointed him (1937) president of the Royal Italian Academy, but he died before taking office.

See biography by G. Griffin (1935, repr. 1970) and C. Klopp (1988); studies by A. Rhodes (1960), G. Gullace (1966), and R. Forcella (4 vol., 1926–37, repr. 1973).

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Francesca Da Rimini » Read Now
by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Arthur Symons. 223 pgs.

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...Amor condusse noi ad una morte. Copyright, 1902, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY. Francesca da Rimini; Tragedia Gabriele D Annunzio. Copyright, 1902, BY FRATELLI TREVES. TO...
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Representative Continental Dramas: Revolutionary and Transitional ("The Daughter of Jorio (1904)" by Gabriele D'Annunzio begins on p. 265) » Read Now
by Montrose J. Moses. 690 pgs.

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...REPRESENTATIVE CONTINENTAL DRAMAS REVOLUTIONARY AND TRANSITIONAL By Montrose J. Moses THE AMERICAN DRAMATIST REPRESENTATIVE BRITISH DRAMAS REPRESENTATIVE...
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Noble Essences: A Book of Characters (Chap. V "Gabriele D'Annunzio") » Read Now
by Osbert Sitwell. 360 pgs.

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...II Sir Edmund Gosse 40 III Ronald Firbank 77 IV Wilfred Owen 101 V Gabriele DAnnunzio 125 VI Ada Leverson 143 VII Walter Richard Sickert 182 VIII W...
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Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists (Chap. X "Duse and D'Annunzio") » Read Now
by James Huneker. 430 pgs.

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...ICONOCLASTS -ii- ICONOCLASTS A BOOK OF DRAMATISTS IBSEN, STRINDBERG, BECQUE, HAUPTMANN, SUDERMANN, HERVIEU, GORKY, DUSE AND DANNUNZIO, MAETERLINCK AND...
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Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes ("Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1902" begins on p. 245) » Read Now
by Henry James. 456 pgs.

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...GEORGE SAND, 1897 160 GEORGE SAND, 1899 187 GEORGE SAND, 1914 214 GABRIELE DANNUNZIO, 1902 245 MATILDE SERAO 294 THE NEW NOVEL, 1914 314 DUMAS THE...
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Studies from Ten Literatures ("Gabriele D'Annunzio" begins on p. 147) » Read Now
by Ernest Boyd. 333 pgs.

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...DE AYALA 120 CONCHA ESPINA 128 RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA 137 ITALY GABRIELE DANNUNZIO 147 GIOVANNI VERGA 155 LUIGI PIRANDELLO 159 GIOVANNI PAPINI...
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A Study of the Modern Drama: A Handbook for the Study and Appreciation of the Best Plays, European, English and American, of the Last Half Century ("Gabriele D'Annunzio" begins on p. 185) » Read Now
by Barrett H. Clark. 527 pgs.

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...HERMAN HEIJERMANS 178 The Good Hope 179 THE ITALIAN DRAMA 183 GABRIELE DANNUNZIO 185 Gioconda 187 GIUSEPPE GIACOSA 190 As the Leaves 192...
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Dictionary of Italian Literature ("D'Annunzio, Gabriele" begins on p. 149) » Read Now
by Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Jody Robin Shiffman. 716 pgs.

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This revised and expanded edition of the only English dictionary of Italian literature covers the field from the Middle Ages to the present, includes new entries for contemporary authors, and provides current bibliographical information for all entries.
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Mussolini (Discussion of Gabriele D'Annunzio begins on p. 128) » Read Now
by Laura Fermi. 480 pgs.

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...MUSSOLINI MUSSOLINI BY Laura Fermi Phoenix Books THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO LONDON This book is also available in a clothbound edition from...
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Italy from Napoleon to Mussolini ("D'Annunzio Again" begins on p. 127) » Read Now
by Rene Albrecht-Carrie. 314 pgs.

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...ITALY from NAPOLEON to MUSSOLINI ITALY from NAPOLEON to MUSSOLINI Rene Albrecht-Carrie COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 1950 COPYRIGHT 1950 COLUMBIA...
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Fascist and Liberal Visions of War: Fuller, Liddell Hart, Douhet, and Other Modernists ("D'Annunzio, Marinetti, and the Air" begins on p. 43) » Read Now
by Azar Gat. 334 pgs.

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In this ground-breaking study, Dr Azar Gat investigates the fascist background behind the ideas of the leading theorists of mechanized war in the first half of this century. He re-evaluates the contribution of B.Liddell Hart, presenting him as the pioneer of the modern western liberal way in...
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In this ground-breaking study, Dr Azar Gat investigates the fascist background behind the ideas of the leading theorists of mechanized war in the first half of this century. He re-evaluates the contribution of B.Liddell Hart, presenting him as the pioneer of the modern western liberal way in warfare, a man who developed the theory of the tactical `cold war' in the decade before nuclear weapons became a military reality.
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Goliath: The March of Fascism ("D'Annunzio" begins on p. 86) » Read Now
by G. A. Borgese . 449 pgs.

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...to France, he was murdered by a riotous mob. His corpse was hanged and burned. His story was retold in recent times by Gabriele dAnnunzio, whose biography of Cola di Rienzo...
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Readings in Twentieth-Century European History ("D'Annunzio against the World" begins on p. 135) » Read Now
by Alexander J. Baltzly, A. William Salomone. 616 pgs.

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...READINGS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY READINGS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY Edited by ALEXANDER BALTZLY and A. WILLIAM SALOMONE...
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Puccini among Friends ("D'Annunzio, 'Conchita' and Others (June 1906-January 1907)" begins on p. 79) » Read Now
by Vincent Seligman. 378 pgs.

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...Paolo Tosti 66 A collaborator manque-Gabriele D Annunzio 84 After the premiere of Butterfly...inevitable Cyrano , and--no less inevitably--there was Gabriele DAnnunzio, now...
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The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Chap. Two D'Annunzio's Nietzschean Tragedy and the Aesthetic Politics of Fusion") » Read Now
by Mary Ann Frese Witt. 259 pgs.

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In this text, Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. Her study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy.
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Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel (Chap. Five "Il Vate Nazionale: D'Annunzio and the Discourse of Embodiment") » Read Now
by Pericles Lewis. 241 pgs.

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In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates on national identity inspired radical experiments with narrative form among modernist writers. He suggests that far from abandoning the political concerns of nineteenth-century realism, modernists used the emphasis...
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In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates on national identity inspired radical experiments with narrative form among modernist writers. He suggests that far from abandoning the political concerns of nineteenth-century realism, modernists used the emphasis on individual consciousness to explore ways in which the modern nation-state shapes the psyches of its subjects. Tracing this theme through Joyce, Proust, and Conrad, among others, Lewis claims that modern novelists gave life to a whole generation of narrators who forged new social realities in their own images.
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