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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Gabriele d'Annunzio

Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War

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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-Hallett's extraordinary biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio, poet, bon vivant, harbinger of Italian fascism.Gabriele d'Annunzio was Italy's 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 d'Annunzio's incendiary oratory helped drive Italy to enter the First World War, in which he achieved heroic status as an av… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-385-34970-3
  • EAN: 9780385349703
  • Produktnummer: 15724914
  • Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 608 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 9'660 KB
  • Abbildungen: 51 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

Über den Autor


Lucy Hughes-Hallett is an award-winning cultural historian and critic. She is the author of Heroes: A History of Hero Worship and Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams, and Distortions. She has written on books, theater, and television for most of the leading British newspapers. For five years she was the television critic for the Evening Standard and has long been a regular contributor to The Sunday Times (London) Books Section. She has judged a number of literary prizes, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.

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