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

Login — or — register

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).

Inimitable life': this is the definition that D'Annunzio himself gave of his own existence lived in luxury, full of dazzling and unfaithful loves and participation in the First World War as an aviator.
And with Venice? It was love at first sight.

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

This content is inside a paywall, and requires a subscription or registration.

Continue reading:

7,99€ per month, or 59€ per year

Invest in culture, in beauty, in a better future.
You can unsubscribe whenever you want.

Enjoy the full experience