Counter-Currents
Remembering Gabriele D’Annunzio (March 12, 1863–March 1, 1938)
Greg Johnson
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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.”
- Jonathan Bowden, “Gabriele D’Annunzio.”
- Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde.”
- Alex Graham, “Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists.”
- Greg Johnson, “My Ten Favorite Books of 2013.”
- Greg Johnson, “Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini.”
- Margot Metroland, “Approaching D’Annunzio“
- 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, and Jonathan Bowden’s lecture on him is included in his Extremists.
4 comments
What a man, this D’Annunzio!
In an East Coast University where I work, I have a female colleague who is an opera singer when not writing grants and other boring work. Her doctoral thesis was translation and research into turn of century Italian poetry, mostly D’Annunzio. In a casual group meeting at work she sang a piece by the man himself. Afterwards, I had a conversation with her trying to see how receptive she is to the hero’s politics, only to see her nonchalantly dismiss his Rightist position as “Fascists appropriating him.” These liberals are really something!
The early Fascists were geniuses, mavericks, dynamic outsiders and original thinkers. Furthermore they were liberals by their days standards, riling against conservatism and the crown, promoting without fault universal suffrage and often marching in lockstep with the burgeoning feminist movement against Marxism. To these men, humanity was not defined by money or class, but by the people, their nation, their spirit and their excellence. And they were utterly revolted by the ongoing conspiracy to dissolve all the people and all the nations of the world, which would cast us into perpetual mediocrity.
Sadly this made them enemies of all the mediocre forces in the world, which are so powerful and ubiquitous. They hate Fascism for that reason, and their lies are ceaseless. Never let them mischaracterize Fascism as dumb, hypercapitalist, uncreative, or worst of all: conservative – it is the opposite to all the aforementioned.
Good point! However, when I labled the lady described above as liberal, by it I meant the new, common definition which is synonymous with a member of the democratic party.
Dear Greg Johnson,
Thank you for remembering this important historical figure. I would not have heard of him if it wasn’t for Counter-Currents Publishing (CCP). Here are some others names you should add to the birthday list: General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, T. E. Lawrence, Elmer Pendell, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, William Henry Chamberlin and William Gayley Simpson.
Here are some birthdays that should be brought back to this webzine: William Luther Pierce, John Philippe Rushton, Oswald Spengler, Martin Heidegger, Wilmot Robertson and Madison Grant.
Thank you for all the hard work in making CCP an interesting and unique webzine. I visit it everyday.
-Eric
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