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Book of the Week: The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

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The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

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Now an enemy of the state, d'Annunzio struggles to keep his utopian experiment alive.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the life of the Italian politician and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Now an enemy of the state, d'Annunzio struggles to keep his utopian experiment alive.

Haydn Gwynne reads from Lucy Hughes-Hallett's biography of this remarkable Italian poet and political agitator whose words triggered riots. 

Now an enemy of the state, d'Annunzio struggles to keep his utopian experiment in Fiume alive.

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Produced by Gemma Jenkins.

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the life of Italian politician and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio

Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the life of Italian politician and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Read by Haydn Gwynne

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