Gabriele D'Annunzio (Pescara, 1863 - Gardone Riviera, Brescia 1938)
was born in Pescara (Abruzzi) from a resting family, he studied high school students from an early age and started composing poems; moved to Rome to study at university. He attended the most exclusive the city and worked as a reporter for newspapers and magazines, he is never to limit the university and his life is the center of scandals and heroic deeds. In 1897 he was elected deputy in the ranks of the extreme right, his love life, passionate, well-known is its relationship to Eleonora Duse (actress), she lives in Florence for a long enough period in the famous villa called "Capponcina.
At one point, besieged by creditors, he is forced to flee to France in 1910 and the house is put up for auction.
With the outbreak of World War 1, supports the intervention of Italy to the Entente's side, engaging in daring and returned to Italy.
When landing an accident in which he lost an eye, takes a flight to Vienna by throwing leaflets from the plane of the flag. At the end of the war took by force the city of Rijeka that the peace treaty (Versailles) had attributed to Italy and proclaimed the republic of Carnaro (1919) but the following year the Italian government forces with the army in dislodge from Rijeka. Since 1920
entered the last period of his life, with its ambiguous relationship with fascism.
He retired in Gardone Riviera villa in the Italian Vittoriale said, that became a veritable museum of his life. He died in 1938 due to cerebral hemorrhage.
Poetics
with D'Annunzio was born in Italy of the Superman myth: the world belongs to more than a few minds, the result is a total contempt for the masses (this is decadent). The love of violence, contempt of danger, their dynamism, heroism are the characteristics of the life of Superman. The cult of beauty and art can not understand why the mass is an expression of the individual. Is the aristocratic conception of the world and history, this does not make it to the masses, but the great men by their actions and thoughts, the masses suffer and the big men can and should exploit. It is hereby declared anti-bourgeois in the sense that denies the political conception of social life, middle-class equivalent coward and a wimp (racist concept). Becomes the favorite writer of Roman high society as a shared fashion and enhances the myths. D'Annunzio set charges of aestheticism: the purpose of life and beauty and life itself is an art form.
refined, adventurous, abstract, original, aristocratic, anti-democratic. It is a sensual and decadent poet: through the senses perceive the reality of life, music search words that stimulate the senses of the reader. His relations with fascism were broken with the rise to power of this.
Fiction Works: The Virgin of the Rocks, The Pleasure, The Innocent, The Triumph of Death, The Fire, The Book Secret.
Poems: The Alcione
Plays: Francesca da Rimini, The Daughter of Jorio.
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