Gabriele d'Annunzio facts for kids

Gabriele d'Annunzio (Pescara 12 March 1863 - Gardone Riviera 1 March 1938) was an Italian writer, poet, journalist and playwright. He was nicknamed "Il Vate" (The Poet) and "Il Profeta" (The Prophet) and he was associated with the Decadent movement.

Works

Gabriele d'Annunzio, Il Libro delle Vergini, Carabba, 1917

Gabriele d'Annunzio, L'armata d'Italia, Carabba, 1916

Gabriele d'Annunzio, Primo vere, Carabba, 1913

Novels

• Il piacere (1889)
• Giovanni Episcopo (1891)
• L'innocente (1892)
• Il trionfo della morte (The Triumph of Death, 1894)
• Le vergini delle rocce (The Maidens of the Rocks, 1895)
• Il fuoco ( The Flame of Life: A Novel, 1900)
• Forse che sì forse che no (1910)

Tragedies

• La città morta (The Dead City: a Tragedy, 1899).
• La Gioconda (Gioconda, 1899).
• Francesca da Rimini (1902).
• L'Etiopia in fiamme (1904).
• La figlia di Jorio (1904).
• La fiaccola sotto il moggio (1905).
• La nave (1908).
• Fedra (1909).

Short story collections

• Terra vergine (1882)
• Le novelle della Pescara (1884–1886)

Poetry collections

• Primo vere (1879)
• Canto novo (1882)
• Poema paradisiaco (1893)
• The five books of Laudi del cielo, del mare, della terra e degli eroi (1903–1912)
  • Maia (Canto Amebeo della Guerra)
  • Elettra
  • Alcyone
  • Merope
  • Asterope (La Canzone del Quarnaro)
• Ode alla nazione serba (1914)

Images for kids

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  Birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio Museum in Pescara

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  Gabriele D'Annunzio, aged 7 (1870)

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  D'Annunzio in 1889

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  Italian translation of the propaganda leaflet which D'Annunzio threw from his airplane during his flight above Vienna.

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  Gabriele D'Annunzio (left) with a fellow officer

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  Fiume residents cheering D'Annunzio and his raiders, September 1919

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  D'Annunzio (near center with cane) with some legionaries (components of the Arditi's department of the Italian Royal Army) in Fiume in 1919. Next to D'Annunzio (right) is Lt. Arturo Avolio, the commander of the Arditi's department of Bologna Brigade.

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  Villa of Vittoriale degli italiani

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  Gabriele D'Annunzio reading (photo by Mario Nunes Vais)

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  Poster by Adolfo De Karolis for Alberto Franchetti's opera La figlia di Iorio (1906)

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  Pro-Italy messages that D'Annunzio threw from his airplane during his 1915 flight above Trieste

See also

In Spanish: Gabriele D'Annunzio para niños