(Pescara 1863 – Gardone Riviera, Brescia 1938). He attended the prestigious Collegio Cicognani of Prato and debuted his writing career at an extremely young age with a collection of poems “Primo Vere” (1879) so that when he went to Rome to study literature, he was already known in the literary circles. He had little inclination to studying and a lot to having fun. He wrote articles for various newspapers and magazines such as “Fanfulla della Domenica”, “Cronaca Bizantina” and “Tribuna”.

His activity as mundane reporter ws greatly appreciated by the public and when he published his second book of poetry (“Canto Novo”, 1882) his popularity grew even further. D’Annunzio also wrote short stories collected in “Novelle della Pascara” (1902). By the time he published “Il Piacere” in 1889, he already was the main representative of the languid and refined decadence of his times. Between 1891 and 1894 he lived in Naples and supported himself writing for the city newspaper "“ll Mattino”. D’Annunzio fully expressed his literary maturity in his two novels “Giovanni Episcopo” (1891) and “L’Innocente” (1892) both being influenced by Tolstoj and Dostoevkij, while “Vergini delle Rocce” (1895) was influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche. His poetic production continued with several books, the most famous being “Laudi Del Cielo, del Mare, della Terra, degli Eroi” published in 1903. In 1898 D’Annunzio went to live in Villa La Capponcina in Settignano (Florence) to be closer to his lover of the time, Eleonora Duse.

He gave an unbridled account of his love story in “Il Fuoco” (1900). Hanks to Duse he intensified his writing and published several popular novels: “Francesca da Rimini” (1902), “la Figlia di Jorio” (1904) and “ La Fiaccola Sotto il Moggio” (1905). In spite of the number of books written, he used to spend more than he earned, and was always in debt. The creditors confiscated his property and his furniture so that the poet was forced to move to France. He lived in Paris for four years where he worked on “Cento e Cento Pagine del Libro Segreto” (1935). He returned to Italy in 1915 and settle in Villa Cargnacco, later transformed in Vittoriale, on Lake Garda in 1921.