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‘Hard to beat ... a biographical tour de force ... a rich, voluptuous treat ... a triumph, the biography of the year’ Robert McCrum, Observer, ‘Books of the Year’
‘[The Pike] dramatically extends biography’s formal range to encompass a daunting theme’ TLS, ‘Books of the Year’
‘This is a magnificent portrait of a preposterous character ... deplorable, brilliant, ludicrous, tragic but above all irresistible, as hundreds of women could testify. His biographer has done him full justice’ Francis Wheen, Daily Mail
‘A cracker of a biography, an extraordinary story of literary accomplishment, passionate war-mongering and sexual incorrigibility... In less skilled hands this could have been a disaster; in fact it works wonderfully well’ Spectator, ‘Books of the Year’
‘Beautiful, strange and original ... an extraordinarily intimate portrait’ New Statesman
‘Hugely enjoyable ... Hughes-Hallett has a great talent for encapsulating an era or an attitude ...That almost 700 pages flew by bears testimony to how pleasurable and readable those pages were’ Sunday Times
‘A splendid subject for a biography ... Hughes-Hallett dances her way through this extraordinary life in a style that is playful, punchy and generally pleasing ... In death, as in life, the amazing story of D’Annunzio is painted in primary colours, but with the darkest shadows’ Observer
‘A riveting biography ... It must have been so tempting to be judgmental, but Hughes-Hallett allows us to judge for ourselves’ Antonia Fraser, Daily Mail, ‘Books of the Year’
‘Not only an inspired telling of a life that becomes more repellent with each page, it illuminates early 20th-century Europe in brilliant, unexpected ways’ Observer
‘Electrifying ... a fascinating portrait ... Hughes-Hallett relates his journey from romantic idealist to Right-wing warmonger with flair and insight’ Daily Express
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First United States edition. Godfather to Mussolini, national hero of Italy and the WWI irredentist movement, literary icon of Joyce and Pound, lover of actress Eleonora Duse: here is Lucy Hughes-Halletts extraordinary biography of Gabriele dAnnunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism.Gabriele dAnnunzio was Italys premier poet at a time when poetry mattered enough to trigger riots. A brilliant self-publicist in the first age of mass media, he used his fame to sell his work, seduce women, and promote his extreme nationalism. In 1915 dAnnunzios incendiary oratory helped drive Italy to enter the First World War, in which he achieved heroic status as an aviator.In 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume and there a delinquent city-state. Futurists, anarchists, communists, and proto-fascists descended on the city. So did literati and thrill seekers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. After fifteen months an Italian gunship brought the regime to an end, but the adventure had its sequel: three years later, the fascists marched on Rome, belting out anthems theyd learned in Fiume, as Mussolini consciously modeled himself after the great poet.At once an aesthete and a militarist, dAnnunzio wrote with equal enthusiasm about Fortuny gowns and torpedoes, and enjoyed making love on beds strewn with rose petals as much as risking death as an aviator. Lucy Hughes-Halletts stunning biography vividly re-creates his flamboyant life and dramatic times, tracing the early twentieth centurys trajectory from Romantic idealism to world war and fascist aggression. Seller Inventory # DADAX0307263932
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