Il volo di d’Annunzio su Trieste. Il Poeta lancia patriottici messaggi agli italiani in guerra: “La fine del vostro martirio è prossima!”

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D'Annunzio's flight over Trieste. The Poet launches patriotic messages to Italians at war: 'The end of your martyrdom is near! Illustration by Achille Beltrame, published in Domenica del Corriere 22-29 August 1915 (via Wikimedia Commons).

Gabriele D'Annunzio was born in Pescara in 1863. He lived a happy childhood, in a busy and affluent family until the financial difficulties caused by his father's carelessness in incurring debts, a peculiarity, moreover, that his son also inherited in later life. As early as high school, the prestigious Cicognini institute in Prato, D'Annunzio showed off an ingenious, reckless and sprightly character. But also - above all - romantic.This was demonstrated by his first encounter with Venice, filtered through the melodramatic lens of the literature of Goethe and Schiller. It was among the school

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