The Lund University Library has four English-language biographies of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the diminutive dictator of Fiume. Here’s a short, superficial review of each, with the first sentences as examples of the grand prose that his ghost has inspired in other historians (I’m not the first victim…).
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It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
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