Sergio Castellitto and Francesco Patané in
The Bad Poet
The relationship between the great poet
Gabriele D’Annunzio and fascism has formed the focus of numerous historical studies and is also explored in detail in a very recent book by Raffaella Canovi (Bibliotheka Edizioni), where the egocentric, individualistic and libertarian “Vate” is described as a man who transcended notions of right and left and who couldn’t subscribe to a State characterised by rigid frameworks and highly restrictive rules. The only thing he had in common with Benito Mussolini was fanatic nationalism.
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Having lived across two centuries, the expert in supermanism, renaissance aesthete but also experimenter in and enthusiast of technical innovations D’Annunzio wasn’t just a protagonist of the literary scene, he also played a lead role in European customs and politics from the end of the 1800s right up until the advent of fascism. But the
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