Gabriele d'Annunzio

Gabriele d'Annunzio (died 1938) was born in Pescara on 12 March 1863. A pupil at the Cicognini school in Prato, he published his first collection of verse in 1879, at sixteen. Settled in Rome, he lived there by journalism. In 1910, his debts forced him into exile in France. An airman during the First World War, he lost the sight of one eye, then occupied Fiume with volunteers in 1919. He died at Gardone Riviera, in his residence of the Vittoriale, on 1 March 1938.

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• NovelThe Maidens of the RocksLe vergini delle rocceGabriele d'Annunzio · 1895LiteraturePublic domain