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General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso OMS CMG MVM (UK: / d æ ˈ n ʊ n t s i oʊ /, US: / d ɑː ˈ n uː n-/, Italian: [ɡabriˈɛːle danˈnuntsjo]; 12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army ...
Gabriele D’Annunzio (born March 12, 1863, Pescara, Italy—died March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera) was an Italian poet, novelist, dramatist, short-story writer, journalist, military hero, and protofascist political leader. He was the leading writer of Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Gabriele D’Annunzio . Gabriele D’Annunzio, (born March 12, 1863, Pescara, Italy—died March 1, 1938, Gardone Riviera, Italy), Italian writer and military hero. He was a journalist before turning to poetry and fiction.
Sep 25, 2018 · Gabriele D’Annunzio is known in England as “a revolting man”. In France, he’s been called “a frightful gnome with … the manners of a mountebank.”. But in Italy, he’s just called Il Vate: “The Poet”. For in his home country, he is considered one of the greatest poet novelists of all time.
May 18, 2018 · D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863–1938) Italian poet, novelist, and playwright. His flamboyant rhetoric greatly influenced early 20th-century Italian poetry. His poems include Alcyone (1904), and novels The Triumph of Death (1896) and The Child of Pleasure (1898).
Jan 16, 2024 · Gabriele D’Annunzio was one of the most prominent and influential public figures in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries. “One must make one’s life as one makes a work of art,” declares Andrea Spinelli, the main character of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Il Piacere (The Child of Pleasure). D’Annuzio himself lived by this motto.
Oct 18, 2019 · The womanizing, profligate Italian poet Gabriele d’Annunzio, who had become a hero of World War I by airdropping his own propagandistic poetry over Vienna, marched into the Hapsburg city of...
