Gabriele D'Annunzio (born Gaetano Rapagnetta, and ennobled by the King of Italy in 1924 as Principe di Montenevoso; 12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil. His role in politics is controversial due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his status as the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was of Dalmatian extraction. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo),...
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Gabriele D'Annunzio (born Gaetano Rapagnetta, and ennobled by the King of Italy in 1924 as Principe di Montenevoso; 12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil. His role in politics is controversial due to his influence on the Italian Fascist movement and his status as the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini.
Gabriele D'Annunzio was of Dalmatian extraction. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo), the son of a wealthy landowner and mayor of the town whose name was originally Francesco Rapagnetta, to which he legally added D'Annunzio. His precocious talent was recognised early in life, and he was sent to school at the Liceo Cicognini in Prato, Tuscany. He published his first poetry while still at school at the age of sixteen with a small volume of verses called Primo Vere (1879), influenced by Giosuè Carducci's Odi barbare, in which, side by side with some almost brutal imitations of Lorenzo Stecchetti, the fashionable poet of Postuma,...
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