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The Rest Is HistoryJune 9, 2022
194. The First Fascist
About This Episode
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the 'first' fascist, Gabriele D'Annunzio, with historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett. D'Annunzio was a key figure in Italian literature before becoming a political figure later in his life. Although never personally identifying with fascism, his ideas were hugely influential on Mussolini. Join The Rest Is History Club for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Jack Davenport *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook
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Books Mentioned
The Pike, Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, seducer and preacher of war
Lucy Hughes Hallett
“The biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio by Lucy Hughes Hallett, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012, is credited with putting D'Annunzio on the literary and historical map for Anglophone readers.”
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Salambo
Gustave Flaubert
“D'Anozio wanted to light a great Holocaust, a great fire from which the sparks would fly all over Italy and all over Europe, taking inspiration from Flaubert's Salambo.”
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“There's lots of horrific things in your book about D'Annunzio's behavior. But to me, this is one of the worst, that he returns to Italy, to a country that's sort of trembling on the brink of entering the Great War.”
ASIN: B00AEDDQWC
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The Pike
Lucy Hughes Hallett
“It's a book that kind of reinvents the art of biography, isn't it, Tom? It really is.”
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