D'Annunzio, GABRIELE, an Italian realist poet and novelist, born in 1864 on board ship in the Adriatic. His novels show great gifts as a story-teller, and combine decadentism, aestheticism, pessimism, and egoism. They attracted notice outside of Italy in French translations before they were translated into English (The Triumph of Death, 1896, &c.).
D'Annunzio, GABRIELE
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