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D'Annunzio
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D'An·nun·zio  (dän-nntsy), Gabriele 1863-1938.
Italian writer best known for his passionate, free-spirited heroes and his support of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime.

D'Annunzio (Italian) [danˈnuntsjo]
n
(Biographies / D'Annunzio, Gabriele (1863-1938) M, Italian, WRITING: poet, THEATRE: dramatist, WRITING: novelist, POLITICS: nationalist) Gabriele (gaˈbrjɛːle). 1863-1938, Italian poet, dramatist, novelist, national hero, and Fascist. His works include the poems in


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Soldier's Home," a story Hemingway described in 1924 as "the best story I ever wrote" (SL 139), has a "confessional note," suggests Paul Smith, that "could have been elicited" by the news of "Mussolini's recent honoring of Gabriele D'Annunzio," a ceremony that reminded Hemingway "of how he had drawn on some of the exploits of that flamboyant Italian in his own inventions for the home folks in 1919" (Reader's Guide 68-69).
In so doing, he draws on a plethora of fiction writers and theorists that include, in addition to the above-mentioned, the likes of: Dario Bellezza, Andrea Camilleri, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Davide Lajolo, Elisabetta Rasy, Paolo Ruffilli, and others for biographies; Peter Ackroyd, Simone de Beauvoir, Oriana Fallaci, John Fante, Claudio Magris, Lalla Romano, Jose Saramago, and others for fictional (meta)biographies; and Michail Bahktin, Remo Ceserani, Jacques Derrida, William H.
Ida Rubenstein worked with Gabriele D'Annunzio, Hugo von Hoffman produced pantomimes for Grete Wiensthal, W.
 
 
 
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