Talk:Gabriele D'Annunzio

message: In fact the article clearly says (more than once) that he is a 'precursor' not a founder of fascism. If you think this needs clarifying in the article, please edit as appropriate. --mervyn 15:23, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've read it took personal effort by Mussolini to somewhat literally "court" D'Annunzio to Fascism... I can't recall where, though. Someone might know.--Jm woltjen 15:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  precursor 

message: The article contains the boilerplate "This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica…" but the 1911 EB doesn't seem to have an article on D'Annunzio (who would, at that time, have been known mainly as a writer). Any idea what in Britannica was actually used? -- Jmabel | Talk 01:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: AHA! They have him under "ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE D'" -- Jmabel | Talk 01:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Britannica?

message: Recently added in the section on "Other writers linked to fascism":
*Carl Pearson, Socialism in Theory and Practice (1884) 
*Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894)
I am guessing (on the basis of a web search) that Carl Pearson should be Karl Pearson. He was linked with eugenics, and Kidd was certainly a racialist (not an unusual thing in the 19th century), but how are either of them "linked to fascism"? Or are we going to say that all 19th century racialists and all eugenicists are "linked to fascism"? Seems to me that's writing history backwards. I am removing these pending an explanation. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you on this -- perhaps mention of these writers can go onto Fascism page or something. In general, this article needs more updating. At one time I edited it to simplify some of the outdated EB phraseology, but it looks as though more chunks of 1911 text have been pasted in raw. mervyn 08:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm going to cut it from the article, and copy that material and this discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Fascism. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:24, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other writers... 

message: Does anyone know why the image previously at :commons:Image:d'Annunzio in Fiume.jpg was deleted? It's from a date that would presumably mean it was public domain. - Jmabel | Talk 03:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like there was a big shakeup involving images marked "public domain in Italy" on Commons due to an EU directive that changed Italian copyright law.  (More than anyone wants to know here.)  It seems like that photo would have been published before 1923, though, so it could probably be uploaded here, rather than Commons, as public domain in the U.S. —Celithemis 06:45, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted image 

message: All of the mentions of him I have encountered spell it D'Annunzio. I believe d'Annunzio is incorrect although it is more traditional in terms of appearance. Algabal 03:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Italian Wikipedia gives him as a lower-case "d'Annunzio."  Nihil novi 20:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia can hardly be used a source to justify spelling on Wikipedia! Algabal 21:20, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Currently, the article is titled "d'Annunzio" but every single reference to him in the article is "D'Annunzio".  That has to be fixed, one way or another.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 22:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  D'Annunzio or d'Annunzio? 

message: to drop propaganda leaflets on Vienna. Those leaflets said:
 Viennesi!
 Imparate a conoscere gli Italiani. [...]
Really?  Given that Vienna is and was a primarily German-speaking city, wouldn't the leaflets have been in German?  I'm not sure what the point is of having a lengthy extract of untranslated Italian in the middle of the article -- particularly as it appears to be broken off in the middle.RandomCritic 14:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Flight over Vienna.  Two separate types of leaflets were dropped, one in Italian and one in German. --NEMT (talk) 06:37, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propaganda 

message: The sections of this article describing his literary works in the sections Life and Works are bursting with superfluous praise, it isn't NPOV. I am therefore adding the POV check template.193.67.113.2 09:57, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: D'Annunzuio's poetic work "Ode alla nazione Serba" or the "Ode to the Serb nation", written in support of the Serbs' struggle in the Great War against the Germans and Austrians, is NOT mentioned in this article.
:If you have the pertinent information, by all means please add it.  Nihil novi 19:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ode To The Serb Nation 

message: The Italian Wikipedia "Gabriele d'Annunzio" article opens with a beautiful photo of the author with a gentle demeanor, in civilian dress, with a flower in his lapel (Immagine:Dannunzio.jpg).  It would make a nice counterpoint to the formidable d'Annunzio at the top of the English Wikipedia article.  Could someone enter the Italian photo into Commons so we could use it?  (I'd do it myself, but someone would have to show me how — the explanations are too abstract for me.)  Nihil novi 20:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a great photo -- certainly better than the drawing -- but Italian Wikipedia is declaring it public domain based on an Italian law that says "non-artistic" photographs are public domain after twenty years.  Commons doesn't accept images on that basis; see the tag on  and, if you like, the rather mind-numbing conversation about the legal situation on Commons.  To find out whether we can use it, we'd need to know who took the photo and when it was published. —Celithemis 22:12, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps there's an Italian-speaker here — or an English-speaker there — who could try to find this out?  Nihil novi 22:28, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: The intro says:
:went on to have a controversial role in politics as figurehead to the Italian Fascist movement and mentor to Benito Mussolini.
But reading the body of the article, it looks like he basically retired to his home after the Fiume debacle, and didn't take an active part in the Italian Fascist movement, much less mentor Mussolini. Perhaps what it means to say is that he was a precursor and/or inspiration to Mussolini and the Fascist movement? If so, it should say that---the current article intro strongly implies that he was actively involved with them as a sort of philosophical leader/mentor. --Delirium 09:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He most certainly was a womanizer, as any other biography will mention his many lovers/mistresses.  They just happen to not be noted in this article.  Sexual openness was one of the features of Carnaro as well.  I would add references, but it's not a major point and I'm lazy.  --NEMT (talk) 01:50, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently just risible: his role in politics was controversial due to him being a fascist.  Some encyclopedia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.14.150.232 (talk) 05:29, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  intro doesn't match the rest of the article 

message: Another article mentioned that he was assassinated (or that there was a failed assassination attempt or something along those lines), and yet nothing about it exists in this article. Not even if it was even a peaceful death. I would like to know more about this, so could someone add SOMETHING about his death to this article? Thanks! -- 66.92.0.62 (talk) 09:17, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death? 

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