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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. Read more …
Approaching D’Annunzio
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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. Read more …