D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938

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Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist.

From the description of Ode per la morte del distruttore : autograph manuscript signed, 1900?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 427418260

From the description of Prima del secondo assalto : electoral politic discourse, pronounced before the Florentine people : autograph manuscript signed, 1900 June 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 427409004

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Arcachon, to Madame la Comtesse Venturini, 1911 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 427542776

From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to an unidentified recipient, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 427641217

Italian author.

From the description of Report, 1930. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34070094

Seal of the city of Fiume.

Renowned as a poet and novelist, journalist and dramatist, Gabriele D'Annunzio was considered one of Italy's brightest lights in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Born into a wealthy family of Dalmatian extraction in Pescaro (Abruzzo) in 1863, he enjoyed a life of intrigue and adventure, earning laurels as a powerful and original writer and dipping into politics while still in his thirties. At the peak of his literary fame during the years immediately preceding the First World War, however, he soon carved out a new role for himself as a hypernationalist and proto-Fascist.

Volunteering for wartime service as a fighter pilot, D'Annunzio lived up to his self-proclaimed status as Superman. As a squadron commander, he lost an eye in an accident, but his often outlandish bravado and dramatic gestures were cited as helping to raise the spirits of his fellow Italians during bleak times, winning him a hero's reputation. But that reputation was not sealed until the delicate task of dismembering the Austro-Hungarian empire came to pass after the end of the war, when D'Annunzio's already ardent nationalism was inflamed and he took direct political action.

Incensed by the proposed transfer away from Italy of the port of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) at the Paris Peace Conference, D'Annunzio raised a small force of Royal Italian army veterans, nationalists, and irredentists, and on September 12, 1919, seized the city and expelled the allied occupiers. When his plans to annex the territory to Italy were rebuffed, earning a blockade instead, he declared independence and established the Regency of Carnaro (Reggenza Italiana del Carnaro) with himself as Duce. The government formed drew on a mix of anarchist and proto-Fascist ideas, but D'Annunzio's efforts to gain support for this quixotic enterprise were unavailing both internationally and regionally. After the Treaty of Rapallo in November 1920 resolved the dispute between the Italians and Serbs by declaring Fiume a Free State, D'Annunzio declared war on Italy, surrendering only after Fiume was bombarded by the Italian navy in December 1920.

Often seen as a harbinger of the Fascism to come in Iatly, D'Annunzio retired to his home after the affair in Fiume, surviving an assassination attempt in 1922. Although never again directly involved in politics, he was lauded by Mussolini and cited as a source and inspiration for the distinctive Fascist style in Italian politics. D'Annunzio died of a stroke in 1938.

From the guide to the Gabriele D'Annunzio Collection MS 763., 1919-1920, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)
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creatorOf D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Autograph letter signed : Marina di Pisa, to Alfredo Fabrizii, 1910 Feb. 4. Pierpont Morgan Library.
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creatorOf D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Autograph letter signed : Arcachon, to Madame la Comtesse Venturini, 1911 Jan. 9. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Ode per la morte del distruttore : autograph manuscript signed, 1900?. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Filippo Tommaso Marinetti student notebooks and other papers, 1891-1943 Getty Research Institute
creatorOf D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Report, 1930. Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library
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referencedIn Ralph Graves papers, 1936-1938 New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
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referencedIn Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924. Leon Bakst designs, ca. 1911-1923. New York Public Library System, NYPL
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creatorOf Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957. Correspondence received, 1902-1939. New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Papini, Roberto, 1883-1957. Papers, 1906-1957. Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
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referencedIn Comando di Fiume d'Italia. Bolletino ufficiale : printed, 1919-1920. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn Papers related to Gabriele D'Annunzio and the seizure of Fiume, 1918-1926. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
referencedIn Ralph Graves papers, 1936-1938. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Livingston, Arthur, 1883-1944. Arthur Livingston Papers, 1474-1986, (bulk 1904-1944). Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Barney, Natalie Clifford. Natalie Barney collection, ca. 1890-1954. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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creatorOf Briggs, Ernest, 1905-1967. Papers, 1940-1967 [manuscript] University of Queensland, UQ Library
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referencedIn Duse, Eleonora, 1858-1924. Eleonora Duse letters to Gabriele d'Annunzio, 1895-1897. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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creatorOf D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to an unidentified recipient, undated. Pierpont Morgan Library.
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referencedIn Calore, Pier Luigi. Pier Luigi Calore collection concerning the Italian monastery, San Clemente di Casauria, 1891-1893. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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referencedIn Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983 Yale University Library
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Free State of Fiume
Italy
Italy
Rijeka (Croatia)
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Drama
Italian literature
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 Baltic States
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Birth 1863-03-12

Death 1938-03-01

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