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Today is the birthday of Gabriele D’Annunzio, novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, dandy, lothario, 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 innovations followed by Mussolini a few years later. 

To learn more about D’Annunzio’s life and accomplishments, see the following works on this site:

• Hakim Bey, “March on Fiume“


• Kerry Bolton, “Gabriele D’Annunzio“


• Gabriele D’Annunzio, “Tristan and Isolde“


• Greg Johnson, “My Ten Favorite Books of 2013“


• Greg Johnson, “Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini“


• Karlheinz Weißman, “Right-Wing Anarchism” (Czech translation here)