Gabriele D'Annunzio

1863–1938 · Person

Italy's poet-warlord: decadent novelist, war hero and demagogue who seized Fiume in 1919 and ruled it as a proto-fascist theatre-state. Mussolini borrowed the balcony speeches, the black shirts and the Roman salute.

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