Tag: Gabriele 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.  (more…)

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English original here and here

Μετάφραση: Lohengrin 

Ο Romano Vulpitta (γεννηθείς το 1939) είναι Ιταλός πρώην διπλωμάτης και μελετητής ενός Ιαπωνικής λογοτεχνίας. Γεννήθηκε στην Ρώμη και απεφοίτησε από την Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου ενός Ρώμης. Εισήχθη στο Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών ενός Ιταλίας το 1964. Υπήρξε καθηγητής Σύγχρονης Ιαπωνικής Λογοτεχνίας στην Νάπολη από το 1972 έως το 1975. (more…)

John William Waterhouse, “Tristan and Isolde Sharing the Potion,” 1916

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From D’Annunzio’s novel Il trionfo della morte (The Triumph of Death, 1894)

Translated by V. M. Crawford

Giorgio Aurispa had not forgotten a single episode of his first religious pilgrimage towards the Ideal Theatre; he could recall every instant of his extraordinary emotion in that hour when he had first seen on the fair hillside, at the further extremity of a long leafy avenue, the building dedicated to the supreme festival of Art; he could reconstruct the amphitheater in its solemn vastness, girdled by columns and arches, the mystery of the Mystical Gulf. (more…)

Ary Scheffer, “Francesca da Rimini,” 1854

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In 1902, Gabriele D’Annunzio published Francesca da Rimini, a tragedy based on Boccaccio’s elaboration of an episode in Dante’s Inferno.

Francesca was the Daughter of Guido I da Polenta, lord of Ravenna. (more…)

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Romano Vulpitta je bývalým italským diplomatem a odborníkem na japonskou literaturu. Tento římský rodák úspěšně absolvoval právnickou fakultu římské univerzity a v roce 1964 získal zaměstnání na italském ministerstvu zahraničí. Od roku 1972 do roku 1975 působil jako profesor moderní japonské literatury na univerzitě v Neapoli. (more…)

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Translated by Riki Rei

Czech translation here

Translator’s Note:

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Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944, era diferente da maior parte da vanguarda cultura do século XIX. Eles estavam rebelando-se contra o espírito de vários séculos de liberalismo, racionalismo, a ascensão das massas democráticas, o industrialismo, e o domínio da elite financeira. (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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Portuguese translation here

Editor’s Note:

This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Filippo Marinetti is chapter 4 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.

Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944, was unlike most of the post-19th century cultural avant-garde. (more…)