by Gabriele D'Annunzio · ISBN 9788804493228
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Il fuoco is a novel by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1900. The novel is set in Venice and describes the passionate and destructive relationship between a poet and an actress. The work explores themes such as love, decadence, art and death, with a lyrical and sensual style characteristic of the author.
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924. He had the epithets il Profeta and il Vate : vate stems from the Latin vates, meaning a prophetic, divinatory, or inspirational poet.
