Mussolini with D’Annunzio
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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, playboy, war hero, and the first fascist dictator, who from 1919 to 1920 ruled over the Adriatic city-state of Fiume, establishing many of the political and aesthetic forms followed by Mussolini a few years later.
To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site:
- Hakim Bey, “March on Fiume”
- Kerry Bolton, “Gabriele D’Annunzio”
- Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde”
- Greg Johnson, “My Ten Favorite Books of 2013”
- Greg Johnson, “Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini”
- Karlheinz Weißman, “Right-Wing Anarchism” (Translations: Czech, Spanish)
- , “’68 was Invented by D’Annunzio”
Additionally, Kerry Bolton’s essay on D’Annunzio is included in his book, Artists of the Right.
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How come there is nothing about Italy’s election of March 4th? The Far-Right parties successively got more votes than the Forza Italia a spent cartridge of Silvio Berlusconi and the Left were left behind their old donkey and cart South, with Bothers of Italy and the Lega Nord gained 37% of the votes and primed to form Italy’s next government.