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Lucy Hughes-Hallett - Costa Winner 2013
bookshelves: winter-20122013, radio-4, published-2013, nonfiction, poetry, biography, fradio, history, italy, costa-whitbread-winner
Recommended for: BBC radio listeners
Read from January 22 to 26, 2013
BOTWThe Pike
9780307263933
pub 2013
BBC Radio 4
winter 2012/2013
non-fic
italian
poetry
blurb- Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose words triggered riots. Once d'Annunzio's fame as a great wordsmith was established he used it unashamedly to sell his work, seduce women and promote his extreme political views.
In 1915, d'Annunzio's incendiary oratory helped drive Italy to war. In 1919 he led a troop of mutineers into the Croatian port of Fiume and established a delinquent city-state. Futurists, anarchists, communists and proto-fascists descended, as did literati and thrill-seekers, to experience d'Annunzio's utopian experiment.
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Note to any passing librarian: this book is called 'The Pike'...
...'Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War' is the strapline.
Opening and closing music
Track 13: Etude in D sharp minor, Op. 8, No.12
Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson
Label: Bridge Records
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