Gabriele D'Annunzio

by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  Naples: d’Annunzio moves to, 2.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3

  Naples, Queen of see Maria Sophia

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: cult, 5.1, 32.1; Nietzsche reveres, 18.1; and Caporetto, 28.1

  Napoleon III, Emperor of the French

  National Association of Trento and Trieste

  National Fascist Party (Italy), 32.1, 32.2

  National Federation of the Legionaries of Fiume

  Nave, La (Gd’A) see Ship, The

  Nencioni, Enrico, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1

  Nerissa (Red Cross nurse)

  New York American (newspaper)

  New York Journal

  Nicolson, Sir Harold, 2.1, 20.1, 29.1

  Nietzsche, Friedrich: d’Annunzio reads, 1.1, 2.1, 11.1, 22.1; on the state, 3.1; d’Annunzio cites, 18.1; and “Superman”, 18.2; on supposed burning of Louvre, 22.2; on life-force, 22.3, 23.1; on tragedy, 23.2; on excess of low-level creatures, 27.1; influence on Mussolini, 29.1; The Birth of Tragedy, 19.1, 20.1

  Nijinsky, Vaslav

  Nino, Antonio de, 4.1, 7.1, 24.1; Abruzzese Customs and Costumes, 7.2

  Nitti, Francesco: d’Annunzio meets in Naples, 18.1; on d’Annunzio’s speech on socialism, 22.1; d’Annunzio mocks, 29.1, 30.1; succeeds Orlando as Prime Minister, 29.2; offers posts to d’Annunzio, 29.3; and Pittaluga’s command in Fiume, 30.2; and occupation of Fiume, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5; estimate of d’Annunzio, 30.6; orders measures against Fiume, 30.7; calls election (1919), 30.8; premiership, 30.9; offers terms to Fiume, 30.10; returns to power in 1919 election, 30.11; d’Annunzio seeks to depose, 31.1; and fostering of Fiume babies on mainland, 31.2; and Ferrario’s threat to increase blockade on Fiume, 31.3; receives delegation of Fiume National Council, 31.4; fall from power, 31.5; writes to d’Annunzio proposing cooperation, 32.1; fascists ransack home, 32.2; stripped of citizenship and exiled, 32.3

  Noailles, Anna de

  Notturno (Gd’A; memoir): on glowworm, 3.1; writing, 28.1, 32.1, 32.2; published, 32.3

  “Ode on the Serbian Nation” (Gd’A)

  Ode to the Latin Resurrection (Gd’A), 27.1, 27.2

  Ojetti, Ugo, 2.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3

  Oldofredi, Count

  Origo, Clemente, 3.1, 24.1, 25.1

  Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 32.1

  Ortona

  Ossani, Olga: affair with d’Annunzio, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; d’Annunzio borrows from, 18.1; Duse interviews, 21.1

  Ottajano, near Naples

  Ovid: Metamorphoses

  Owen, Wilfred

  paganism

  Paléologue, Maurice, 26.1, 26.2

  Palli, Natale

  Palmerio, Benigno, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4

  Paola von Ostheim, Princess of Saxe-Weimar

  Papini, Giovanni

  Paris: d’Annunzio in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1; threatened in Great War, 27.2, 27.3; d’Annunzio occupies Hôtel de Chalons-Luxembourg, 27.4; peace talks (1919), 29.1, 29.2

  Parisina (Gd’A; opera), 3.1, 26.1

  Pascoli, Giovanni, 25.1, 26.1

  Pastrone, Giovanni

  Pater, Walter, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 19.1, 22.1, 24.1, 30.1

  Peccato di Maggio (“Sin in May”; Gd’A; poem), 9.1, 9.2

  Persia (ship)

  Peruggia, Vincenzo

  Pescara, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 27.1

  Pesce, Rocco

  Pétain, Marshal Philippe

  Piacere (Gd’A) see Pleasure

  Piazza, Captain

  Picasso, Pablo, 26.1, 26.2, 28.1

  Piero della Francesca

  Pierre et Gilles (photographers)

  Pinedo, Francesco

  Pioggia nel Pineto, La (Gd’A; poem)

  Pirandello, Luigi, 21.1, 25.1, 32.1, 32.2

  Pisanelle, La, ou la Morte Parfumée (Gd’A; play)

  Pittaluga, General Vittorio Emanuele, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3

  Più che l’Amore (Gd’A) see More Than Love

  Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1

  Plato

  Pleasure (Piacere; Gd’A; novel): French publication, 2.1, 18.1; lovers in, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1; writing and themes, 9.2, 10.1, 15.1, 25.1; supposed self-portrait in, 9.3; on elite culture, 9.4; women’s posies, 9.5; duel in, 11.1; on the poor, 11.2; lesbianism in, 12.1; and romanticism, 12.2; illness in, 13.1; eroticism, 13.2, 18.2; on war in Ethiopia, 16.1; promotion and success, 17.1; Duse reads, 20.1; on hands, 21.1

  Poema Paradisiaco (Gd’A)

  Poggio a Caiano: Villa Medici, 9.1, 9.2

  Poiret, Paul

  Pola, Istria, 28.1, 28.2

  Ponti, Gio

  Popolari Party (Catholic), 32.1, 32.2, 32.3

  Popolo d’Italia, Il (newspaper), 27.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1

  Pougy, Liane de, 24.1, 26.1

  Pound, Ezra

  Powell, Alexander

  Prato: Royal College of the Cicognini, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 9.1

  Prayer of Sernaglia (Gd’A)

  Prezzolini, Giuseppe, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2

  Price, G. Ward

  Primo de Rivera, Miguel

  Primo Vere (Gd’A; poems), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1

  Primoli, Count Luigi: on Maria di Gallese, 9.1; on d’Annunzio’s elopement with Maria, 9.2, 10.1; friendship with d’Annunzio, 10.2; reconciles d’Annunzio and Duse, 21.1; and proposed national theatre, 23.1; Duse stays with, 24.1; introduces Nathalie de Goloubeff to d’Annunzio, 25.1

  Princip, Gavrilo

  Prodam, Attilio

  Proust, Marcel: admires d’Annunzio’s writing, 1.1; preoccupation with St. Sebastian, 12.1; admires Fortuny gowns, 19.1; co-founds Le Banquet, 22.1; affected by early flying, 25.1, 26.1; and Reynaldo Hahn, 26.2; at Paris première of The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 26.3; experimental writing, 26.4; watches bombing raid on Paris, 28.1; on cocaine, 30.1; A la recherche du temps perdu, 26.5, 32.1

  Prunas, Robert

  Prussia: war with France (1870), 15.1; war with Austria (1866), 16.1

  Puccini, Giacomo, 25.1, 25.2

  Puglia (Italian battleship)

  Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1.1, 15.1

  Quarto, near Genoa: d’Annunzio’s speech at, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

  Ramacca, Princess Maria Gravina Cruyllas di see Gravina, Maria, Princess

  Randaccio, Major Giovanni, 28.1, 31.1

  Rapallo, Treaty of (1920)

  Rastignac (journalist)

  Ravel, Maurice

  Régnier, Henri de, 26.1, 26.2

  Reina, Major, 30.1, 31.1

  Reinhardt, Max

  Renan, Ernest: Life of Jesus

  Reni, Guido

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Ricossa, La (Gd’A; speeches)

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 27.1, 28.1

  Risaotto al Pomidauro (parody of d’Annunzio)

  Risorgimento, 1.1, 8.1, 22.1

  Rizzo, Giovanni, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3

  Rizzo, Luigi, 30.1, 31.1

  Robbia, Marchesa della

  Robilant, Countess Margherita di

  Robilant, General Count Mario Nicolis di

  Rodd, Sir Rennell (later 1st Baron Rennell), 3.1, 28.1

  Rodin, Auguste

  Rolland, Romain: describes d’Annunzio as pike, 1.1; on d’Annunzio’s “blasphemy”, 3.1; likens d’Annunzio to Marat, 3.2; and d’Annunzio’s Triumph of Death, 13.1; and d’Annunzio’s relations with Barbara, 18.1; meets d’Annunzio in Rome, 21.1; on d’Annunzio at Capponcina, 24.1; meets d’Annunzio in Zurich, 24.2; on Duse’s reaction to Fire, 24.3; praises d’Annunzio’s Francesca da Rimini, 24.4; on isolation of Duse and d’Annunzio, 24.5; on d’Annunzio’s writing hymns of war, 27.1

  Roman Elegies (Gd’A; poem cycle)

  Romanticism, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1

  Rome: d’Annunzio’s pro-war speeches in (1915), 3.1; d’Annunzio’s feeling for, 3.2; d’Annunzio moves to after leaving school, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1; as capital of Italy, 8.2; social distinctions, 9.2; urban development, 9.3; d’Annunzio returns to as married man, 10.1; i
n d’Annunzio’s fiction, 10.2; d’Annunzio lives in after publication of Pleasure, 18.1; d’Annunzio stays in Palazzo Borghese, 22.1; fascist march on (1922), 30.1, 32.1; Palazzo Venezia, 32.2; celebrates 10th anniversary of march on, 32.3; fascist “martyrs” buried, 32.4

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

  Rostand, Edmond

  Rubinstein, Ida: d’Annunzio kisses and praises legs, 2.1, 26.1, 32.1; mimes with Ballets Russes, 2.2, 26.2; plays in and funds The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 12.1, 26.3, 26.4, 32.2; style and dress, 26.5; models for Romaine Brooks, 27.1; prepares film version of The Ship, 29.1; dances in Venice, 29.2; visits Vittoriale, 32.3

  Rudinì, Marchese Antonio di

  Rudinì, Marchesa Alessandra di (“Nike”): affair with d’Annunzio, 2.1, 24.1, 25.1; character and behaviour, 25.2, 25.3; drug-taking, 25.4; ovarian tumour, 25.5; d’Annunzio ends affair with, 25.6

  Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austro-Hungary

  Saba, Umberto

  Sabatier, Paul: life of St. Francis

  Saint-Point, Valentine

  Salandra, Antonio: declares war (1915), 2.1; favours neutrality, 3.1; d’Annunzio gives text of Quarto speech to, 3.2; prepares for entry into war, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; forms new government, 3.6; consents to d’Annunzio flying over Trieste, 3.7; d’Annunzio meets in Naples, 18.1; sends condolences to injured d’Annunzio, 28.1; attempts to dismiss Cadorna, 28.2; fails to rebuff fascists, 32.1; Victor Emmanuel asks to form government (1922), 32.2; joins opposition to Mussolini, 32.3

  Salvemini, Gaetano

  Sangallo, Giuliano di

  Sangro, Elena

  Sarajevo, 26.1, 26.2

  Sardinia

  Sardinian Brigade

  Sarfatti, Margherita, 1.1, 32.1; Dux, 32.2

  Sartorio, Aristide

  Savage-Landor, A. Henry

  Saxe-Weimar, Paula, Princess of see Paola von Ostheim, Princess of Saxe-Weimar

  Scarfoglio, Edoardo: on youthful d’Annunzio, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1; in Rome, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1; on d’Annunzio’s social ambitions, 9.2; and d’Annunzio’s isolation in Pescara, 10.1; publishes parody Risaotto al Pomidauro, 10.2; and d’Annunzio’s departure from Rome, 15.1; in Naples, 18.1; criticises parliamentary government, 18.2; arranges sea voyage to Greece and Turkey, 19.1; on d’Annunzio’s relations with Bernhardt, 24.1; on d’Annunzio’s sexual encounter on theatrical tour, 24.2; reviews Cabiria, 26.1

  Schnitzler, Arthur

  Schopenhauer, Arthur

  Scott, Sir Walter, 7.1, 28.1

  Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich

  Séailles, Gabriel

  Seamen’s Union (Italian), 31.1, 32.1

  Sebastian, St., 12.1, 12.2, 26.1, 31.1

  Secret Book, The (Gd’A) see Hundred and Hundred and Hundred Pages of the Secret Book, The

  Sed non Satiatus (Gd’A; poem)

  Serao, Maria (Edoardo Scarfoglio’s wife), 18.1, 18.2

  Serao, Mathilde, 11.1, 24.1, 24.2

  Serbia: and outbreak of Great War

  Serbs: oppose Italian post-war territorial claims, 29.1; and status of Fiume, 29.2

  Settignano, Tuscany, 21.1, 24.1; see also Capponcina

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1, 13.1

  Ship, The (La Nave; Gd’A; play): effect of première, 1.1; Pizzetti writes music for, 24.1, 25.1; writing and themes, 25.2, 27.1, 28.1; and Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 26.1; Milan production with music by Montemezzi, 29.1; film version, 29.2; self-immolation in, 30.1; Sant’Elena production (1938), 32.1

  Sibellato, Ercole

  “Sin in May” (Gd’A) see Peccato di Maggio

  Sinn Féin, 1.1, 31.1

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 2.1, 30.1, 31.1

  Siverio, Luigi

  socialism: d’Annunzio adopts, 22.1; Mussolini opposes, 29.1, 32.1; conflicts with fascists, 29.2, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5; strength in Italy, 30.1, 32.6; planned uprising, 31.1; favours anti-fascist alliance, 32.7; party proscribed in Italy, 32.8

  Sogno d’un Mattino di Primavera (“Dream of a Spring Morning’; Gd’A; play), 21.1, 21.2, 24.1

  Sogno d’un Tramonto d’Autunno (“Dream of an Autumn Sunset”; Gd’A; play)

  Soissons

  Sommaruga, Angelo, 8.1, 10.1

  Song of the Dardanelles, The (Gd’A)

  Songs of Our Exploits Overseas (Gd’A)

  Sonnino, Baron Sidney, 3.1, 3.2, 29.1, 29.2

  Sophocles: Antigone

  Sorel, Cécile, 26.1, 26.2

  Sorel, Georges, 27.1, 31.1; Reflections on Violence, 26.1

  Soviet Russia: and world revolution

  Spanish Civil War (1936–39)

  Spirito, Ugo

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin

  Stanley, Sir Henry Morton

  Starkie, Walter, 2.1, 32.1

  Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

  Stevenson, Frances (later Countess Lloyd-George)

  Strachey, John St. Loe

  Strauss, Richard

  Stravinsky, Igor

  Suetonius

  suicide: in d’Annunzio’s writings

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 26.1; Ballad of Death, 25.1

  Symons, Arthur

  syndicalism: in Fiume

  Tasca, Angelo

  Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: romanticism, 12.1; Crossing the Bar, 25.1; Idylls of the King, 6.1; “Maud”, 16.1

  Terra Virgine (Gd’A; prose collection)

  Tescher, Mary

  Testa di Ferro (“Iron Head’; journal), 31.1, 31.2

  Thaon di Revel, Admiral Paolo

  Thode, Henry

  Thompson, Mark, 1.1, 3.1, 28.1

  Timavo, River

  To a Torpedo Boat in the Adriatic (Gd’A; ode)

  Tocca di Casauria (village), Abruzzi

  Toledo, Marchesa Beatrice Alvarez

  Toscanini, Arturo, 7.1, 28.1, 32.1

  Tosti, Francesco Paolo: in Abruzzi, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; in Rome, 8.1

  Tregua, La (GdA; poem)

  Treves, Antonietta

  Treves, Emilio (publisher): d’Annunzio begs advance from, 3.1; d’Annunzio sends Pleasure to, 15.1; promotes d’Annunzio, 17.1; declines to publish The Innocent, 18.1; and d’Annunzio’s election to parliament, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3; and d’Annunzio’s Glory, 24.1; d’Annunzio writes to on impending death, 25.1; publishes Maybe Yes, Maybe No in two volumes, 25.2; publishes d’Annunzio’s Songs of Our Exploits Overseas, 26.1; and d’Annunzio’s film Cabiria, 26.2; publishes d’Annunzio’s Complete Works, 32.1

  Tribuna, La: d’Annunzio works on, 10.1, 10.2; d’Annunzio leaves, 15.1

  Trier (caricaturist)

  Trieste: in Great War, 3.1; d’Annunzio’s wartime flight over, 3.2, 28.1; Austrians abandon, 28.2; fascist violence in, 31.1

  Trionfo della Morte, Il (Gd’A) see Triumph of Death, The

  Triple Alliance (Austria-Germany-Italy, 1882), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 14.1, 27.1

  Triumph of Death, The (Il Trionfo della Morte; Gd’A; novel): music in, 2.1; suicide in, 2.2, 18.1; influenced by Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, 6.1; church scene, 7.1; illness in, 13.1; sex in, 13.2; autobiographical element, 13.3, 14.1; writing, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1; peasants in, 18.5; cites Nietzsche, 18.6; on superior and inferior beings, 18.7; Duse reads and condemns, 20.1

  Trotsky, Leon

  Turati, Filippo

  Turin, 24.1, 31.1

  Umberto I, King of Italy, 5.1, 24.1

  “Undulna” (Gd’A; ode)

  Union of Free Spirits Tending Towards Perfection, 1.1, 31.1

  United States of America: enters Great War

  Uscocchi (group), 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  Vadalà, Captain Rocco

  Valéry, Paul, 32.1, 32.2

  Vansittart, Robert, Baron

  Vasari, Giorgio, 9.1, 12.1

  Vecchi, Ferruccio

  Vedetta, La (newspaper), 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3

  Veglia (island)

  Veneto: Italy regains

  Venice: d’Annunzio in, 2.1, 3.1, 28.1; in Great War, 3.2, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4; d’Annunzio views from air, 3.3; d’Annunzio first
visits, 14.1; d’Annunzio meets Hérelle in, 19.1; International Arts Exhibition (first Biennale, 1895), 20.1; campanile collapses, 22.1; d’Annunzio presents MS of The Ship to, 25.1; d’Annunzio occupies Casetta Rossa in Great War, 28.5; Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo, 28.6; d’Annunzio recovers from eye operation in, 28.7; Sacca della Misericordia, 28.8; Casetta Rossa, 28.9; Palazzo Pisani, 28.10; art works removed in war, 28.11; as d’Annunzio’s post-war base, 29.1; d’Annunzio returns to after Fiume defeat, 31.1, 32.1

  Venturina (d’Annunzio’s lover)

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 16.1, 16.2, 24.1

  Verga, Giovanni, 6.1; Life in the Fields, 7.1

  Versailles, Treaty of (1919)

  Versilia, Tuscany

  Vetsera, Marie

  Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 5.1, 16.1

  Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy: reads text of d’Annunzio’s Quarto speech, 3.1; Gioletti declines request to form government (1915), 3.2; invites Salandra to form government, 3.3; d’Annunzio writes ode on accession, 24.1; supports Cadorna, 28.1, 29.1; replaces Cadorna with Diaz, 28.2; d’Annunzio meets, 29.2; and d’Annunzio as potential Italian leader, 30.1; condemns d’Annunzio’s annexation of Fiume, 30.2; and fascist march on Rome, 32.1; asks Mussolini to form government (1922), 32.2; reviews blackshirts, 32.3

  Vienna, 24.1; d’Annunzio’s pamphlet air raid on, 28.1

  Vierne, Louis

  Villa Chigi (Gd’A; elegy)

  Virgil: Aeneid

  Virgin Anna, The (Gd’A; story)

  Virgin Orsola, The, see Book of the Virgins, The

  Virgins of the Rocks, The (Gd’A; novel), 18.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 28.1

  vitalism

  Vittoriale (earlier Villa Cargnacco; d’Annunzio’s home): d’Annunzio occupies and owns, 2.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3; Mussolini visits, 28.1, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6, 32.7; Arengo and garden, 32.8, 32.9; design and decor, 32.10, 32.11, 32.12, 32.13, 32.14, 32.15; d’Annunzio offers to nation, 32.16; Mussolini declares National Monument, 32.17; visitors, 32.18; d’Annunzio plans museum of war, 32.19, 32.20; local tavern closed down, 32.21; mausoleum, 32.22

  Vittorio Veneto, 28.1, 29.1

  Voce, La (journal), 26.1, 27.1

  Vodovosoff, Engineer

  Volpe, Giacchino

  Wagner, Cosima

  Wagner, Richard, 2.1, 18.1, 23.1, 24.1; death, 23.2; Tristan and Isolde, 6.1, 18.2

  Washington, Hotel, Garda: d’Annunzio acquires

  Wells, H. G., 25.1; The War in the Air, 28.1

  Westerhout, Niccolò, 2.1, 18.1