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Gabriele d'Annunzio

General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (UK: /dæˈnʊntsioʊ/,[1] US: /dɑːˈnuːn-/,[2] Italian: [ɡabriˈɛːle danˈnuntsjo]; 12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes written d'Annunzio,[3] was an Italian writer, poet, journalist and playwright. He was nicknamed "Il Vate" (The Poet) and "Il Profeta" (The Prophet) and he was associated with the Decadent movement.

Works

 
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Il Libro delle Vergini, Carabba, 1917
 
Gabriele d'Annunzio, L'armata d'Italia, Carabba, 1916
 
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Primo vere, Carabba, 1913

Novels

  • Il piacere (1889)
  • Giovanni Episcopo (1891)
  • L'innocente (1892)
  • Il trionfo della morte (The Triumph of Death, 1894)
  • Le vergini delle rocce (The Maidens of the Rocks, 1895)
  • Il fuoco ( The Flame of Life: A Novel, 1900)
  • Forse che sì forse che no (1910)

Tragedies

  • La città morta (The Dead City: a Tragedy, 1899).
  • La Gioconda (Gioconda, 1899).
  • Francesca da Rimini (1902).
  • L'Etiopia in fiamme (1904).
  • La figlia di Jorio (1904).
  • La fiaccola sotto il moggio (1905).
  • La nave (1908).
  • Fedra (1909).

Short story collections

  • Terra vergine (1882)
  • Le novelle della Pescara (1884–1886)

Poetry collections

  • Primo vere (1879)
  • Canto novo (1882)
  • Poema paradisiaco (1893)
  • The five books of Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi (1903–1912)
    • Maia (Canto Amebeo della Guerra)
    • Elettra
    • Alcyone
    • Merope
    • Asterope (La Canzone del Quarnaro)
  • Ode alla nazione serba (1914)

Gabriele D'Annunzio Media

  • D'Annunzio in 1870, aged 7

  • Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938)

  • Italian translation of the propaganda leaflet which D'Annunzio threw from his aeroplane during his flight above Vienna

  • D'Annunzio (left) with a fellow officer

  • Fiume residents cheering D'Annunzio and his raiders in September 1919

  • D'Annunzio (near the centre with cane) with some legionaries (components of the Arditi's department of the Italian Royal Army) in Fiume in 1919. Next to D'Annunzio (right) is Arturo Avolio, a lieutenant and the commander of the Arditi's department of Bologna Brigade.

  • Picture of D'Annunzio in 1903

  • D'Annunzio reading in a photo by Mario Nunes Vais

Notes

  1. ↑ "d'Annunzio, Gabriele". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |work= at position 9 (help)
  2. ↑ "D'Annunzio". Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
  3. ↑ As he used to sign himself (Guglielmo Gatti, Vita di Gabriele d'Annunzio, Firenze, 1956, pp. 1–2).


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