Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

D'Annunzio (below, right) is somebody you have probably never heard of. He was born in Abruzzo in 1863. May 17, 2014 - Hughes-Hallett, Lucy The last session was again for an author I didn't know, and for a book I didn't know anything about – Lucy Hughes-Hallett (left), a British cultural historian and biographer, and her biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio. The Poetry Award for Dante The Divine Comedy and Lucy Hughes-Hallett whose book The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War, was last month awarded the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. John Elinger, Roger Elkin & F Philip Holland. Olivia Laing for “The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink” (Canongate). Feb 4, 2013 - The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Fourth Estate). Mar 20, 2014 - A review of the book, Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. The Pike, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, is an account of how the charismatic D'Annunzio transformed himself into The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio – poet, seducer and preacher of war by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review · The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review. Apr 20, 2008 - The Pike (1); Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War; By Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Nov 26, 2013 - Lucy Hughes-Hallett for “The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War” (Fourth Estate). But how could one not be intrigued by this 'poet, seducer and preacher of war' who declared himself the greatest Italian poet since Dante. Mar 25, 2013 - In the new issue of the Salisbury Review (subscription required), Dalrymple reviews a biography by Lucy Hughes-Hallett called The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War. Sorcerer of Bayreuth – Richard Wagner, His Work & His World. Nov 5, 2013 - A biography of a "repellent egotist", the Italian poet turned fascist politician Gabriele D'Annunzio, has won the £20,000 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. 2013 Costa Poetry Award shortlist. Feb 22, 2013 - D'Annunzio “had embarked on his new life as national hero”, Lucy Hughes-Hallett writes in her enthralling new biography of the “poet, seducer and preacher of war”.