D'Annunzio. Translated from the French by Stephen Hardman. de Jullian, Philippe. [D'Annunzio, Gabriele, 1863-1938] Hardman, Stephen, translator

Viking Press, NY [1973]. Hard Cover. First published Paris, 1971. Of the 'generation which proclaimed itself 'decadent'... Gabriele d'Annunzio alone succeeded in living his wildest dreams: ugly, he was irresistible; a petty bourgeois, he became a prince; a worldly aesthete, he was a hero and dictator. This he achieved because of his prodigious vitality, certainly, but also because, absolutely sure of his own genius and quite untremmelled by scruples or by a sense of humour, he embodied the myth of the closing nineteenth century, the Nietzschean superman with the heroism and the crudity inherent in that concept.' xviii, 366 p., index, plates; 22 cm.; dj; ex library but scarcely read; VG. 30584