Tag: Fiume

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Reviewing a story collection in 1925, an American critic compared Gabriele d’Annunzio’s influence on the Italian mindset to that of Rudyard Kipling in England. “[T]o understand him is to understand pre-war and immediately post-war Italy.” [1] That sort of remark is almost inaccessible to us today; when we think of the Great War, if we think of the Great War at all, we surely don’t automatically think of Kipling or d’Annunzio. That is one hurdle in approaching d’Annunzio today. (more…)

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To commemorate Gabriele D’Annunzio’s birthday, here are a few short vintage films from the brief period when he was the dictator of the city of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia), from September 12, 1919 until the Italian army put down his regime on December 24, 1920.

The first shows D’Annunzio’s army occupying Fiume. (more…)

Enrico Marchiani, Portrait of Gabriele D’Annunzio in Arditi Uniform

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Editor’s Note:

The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture in London on January 21, 2012. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.   

Gabriele D’Annunzio had basically two careers, one of which was as a writer and literati and the other was as a politician and a national figure. If you look him up on Wikipedia there’s a strange incident which occurred in 1922 (more…)

Кери Болтън

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English original here

“Ние, творците, сме смаяни наблюдатели на извечни стремежи, само когато те помагат на нашия вид да бъде издигнат до съдбата си.” — Габриеле Д’Анунцио[1]  (more…)

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Interviewed by Edoardo Sylos Labini[1]

Translation: Túlio S. Borges de Oliveira

Edoardo Sylos Labini: Tell us about an OFF[2] episode from the beginning of your career?

Giordano Bruno Guerri: One day I published my book on [Giuseppe] Bottai, originally my thesis, through Feltrinelli. (more…)

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Bulgarian translation here

Editor’s Note:

In honor of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s birth, on March 12, 1863, we are publishing chapter 3 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents. (more…)

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Excerpted from Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“To die is not enough.”
— D’Annunzio

When pressed about his political allegiance, Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) refused to commit himself. (more…)

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“We artists are only then astonished witnesses of eternal aspirations, which help raise up our breed to its destiny.”

— Gabriele d’Annunzio, 1863–1938

Gabriele D’Annunzio, unique combination of artist and warrior, was born in 1863 into a merchant family He was a Renaissance Man par excellence. (more…)