pearl35 's review for:

Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

4.0

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Hughes-Hallett's atmospheric and impressionistic biography, which attempts to recreate the world in which an irresponsible, proto-fascist troll could be a national celebrity capable of seducing Eleonore Duse (among so many others) and leading a post-WWI army to seize Fiume.