Naples: d’Annunzio moves to, 2.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Naples, Queen of see Maria Sophia
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: cult, 5.1, 32.1; Nietzsche reveres, 18.1; and Caporetto, 28.1
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
National Association of Trento and Trieste
National Fascist Party (Italy), 32.1, 32.2
National Federation of the Legionaries of Fiume
Nave, La (Gd’A) see Ship, The
Nencioni, Enrico, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1
Nerissa (Red Cross nurse)
New York American (newspaper)
New York Journal
Nicolson, Sir Harold, 2.1, 20.1, 29.1
Nietzsche, Friedrich: d’Annunzio reads, 1.1, 2.1, 11.1, 22.1; on the state, 3.1; d’Annunzio cites, 18.1; and “Superman”, 18.2; on supposed burning of Louvre, 22.2; on life-force, 22.3, 23.1; on tragedy, 23.2; on excess of low-level creatures, 27.1; influence on Mussolini, 29.1; The Birth of Tragedy, 19.1, 20.1
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nino, Antonio de, 4.1, 7.1, 24.1; Abruzzese Customs and Costumes, 7.2
Nitti, Francesco: d’Annunzio meets in Naples, 18.1; on d’Annunzio’s speech on socialism, 22.1; d’Annunzio mocks, 29.1, 30.1; succeeds Orlando as Prime Minister, 29.2; offers posts to d’Annunzio, 29.3; and Pittaluga’s command in Fiume, 30.2; and occupation of Fiume, 30.3, 30.4, 30.5; estimate of d’Annunzio, 30.6; orders measures against Fiume, 30.7; calls election (1919), 30.8; premiership, 30.9; offers terms to Fiume, 30.10; returns to power in 1919 election, 30.11; d’Annunzio seeks to depose, 31.1; and fostering of Fiume babies on mainland, 31.2; and Ferrario’s threat to increase blockade on Fiume, 31.3; receives delegation of Fiume National Council, 31.4; fall from power, 31.5; writes to d’Annunzio proposing cooperation, 32.1; fascists ransack home, 32.2; stripped of citizenship and exiled, 32.3
Noailles, Anna de
Notturno (Gd’A; memoir): on glowworm, 3.1; writing, 28.1, 32.1, 32.2; published, 32.3
“Ode on the Serbian Nation” (Gd’A)
Ode to the Latin Resurrection (Gd’A), 27.1, 27.2
Ojetti, Ugo, 2.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3
Oldofredi, Count
Origo, Clemente, 3.1, 24.1, 25.1
Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 32.1
Ortona
Ossani, Olga: affair with d’Annunzio, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; d’Annunzio borrows from, 18.1; Duse interviews, 21.1
Ottajano, near Naples
Ovid: Metamorphoses
Owen, Wilfred
paganism
Paléologue, Maurice, 26.1, 26.2
Palli, Natale
Palmerio, Benigno, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4
Paola von Ostheim, Princess of Saxe-Weimar
Papini, Giovanni
Paris: d’Annunzio in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 24.1, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1; threatened in Great War, 27.2, 27.3; d’Annunzio occupies Hôtel de Chalons-Luxembourg, 27.4; peace talks (1919), 29.1, 29.2
Parisina (Gd’A; opera), 3.1, 26.1
Pascoli, Giovanni, 25.1, 26.1
Pastrone, Giovanni
Pater, Walter, 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 19.1, 22.1, 24.1, 30.1
Peccato di Maggio (“Sin in May”; Gd’A; poem), 9.1, 9.2
Persia (ship)
Peruggia, Vincenzo
Pescara, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 27.1
Pesce, Rocco
Pétain, Marshal Philippe
Piacere (Gd’A) see Pleasure
Piazza, Captain
Picasso, Pablo, 26.1, 26.2, 28.1
Piero della Francesca
Pierre et Gilles (photographers)
Pinedo, Francesco
Pioggia nel Pineto, La (Gd’A; poem)
Pirandello, Luigi, 21.1, 25.1, 32.1, 32.2
Pisanelle, La, ou la Morte Parfumée (Gd’A; play)
Pittaluga, General Vittorio Emanuele, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3
Più che l’Amore (Gd’A) see More Than Love
Pizzetti, Ildebrando, 24.1, 25.1, 27.1
Plato
Pleasure (Piacere; Gd’A; novel): French publication, 2.1, 18.1; lovers in, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1; writing and themes, 9.2, 10.1, 15.1, 25.1; supposed self-portrait in, 9.3; on elite culture, 9.4; women’s posies, 9.5; duel in, 11.1; on the poor, 11.2; lesbianism in, 12.1; and romanticism, 12.2; illness in, 13.1; eroticism, 13.2, 18.2; on war in Ethiopia, 16.1; promotion and success, 17.1; Duse reads, 20.1; on hands, 21.1
Poema Paradisiaco (Gd’A)
Poggio a Caiano: Villa Medici, 9.1, 9.2
Poiret, Paul
Pola, Istria, 28.1, 28.2
Ponti, Gio
Popolari Party (Catholic), 32.1, 32.2, 32.3
Popolo d’Italia, Il (newspaper), 27.1, 29.1, 30.1, 32.1
Pougy, Liane de, 24.1, 26.1
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Alexander
Prato: Royal College of the Cicognini, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 9.1
Prayer of Sernaglia (Gd’A)
Prezzolini, Giuseppe, 26.1, 27.1, 27.2
Price, G. Ward
Primo de Rivera, Miguel
Primo Vere (Gd’A; poems), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1
Primoli, Count Luigi: on Maria di Gallese, 9.1; on d’Annunzio’s elopement with Maria, 9.2, 10.1; friendship with d’Annunzio, 10.2; reconciles d’Annunzio and Duse, 21.1; and proposed national theatre, 23.1; Duse stays with, 24.1; introduces Nathalie de Goloubeff to d’Annunzio, 25.1
Princip, Gavrilo
Prodam, Attilio
Proust, Marcel: admires d’Annunzio’s writing, 1.1; preoccupation with St. Sebastian, 12.1; admires Fortuny gowns, 19.1; co-founds Le Banquet, 22.1; affected by early flying, 25.1, 26.1; and Reynaldo Hahn, 26.2; at Paris première of The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 26.3; experimental writing, 26.4; watches bombing raid on Paris, 28.1; on cocaine, 30.1; A la recherche du temps perdu, 26.5, 32.1
Prunas, Robert
Prussia: war with France (1870), 15.1; war with Austria (1866), 16.1
Puccini, Giacomo, 25.1, 25.2
Puglia (Italian battleship)
Pushkin, Aleksandr, 1.1, 15.1
Quarto, near Genoa: d’Annunzio’s speech at, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Ramacca, Princess Maria Gravina Cruyllas di see Gravina, Maria, Princess
Randaccio, Major Giovanni, 28.1, 31.1
Rapallo, Treaty of (1920)
Rastignac (journalist)
Ravel, Maurice
Régnier, Henri de, 26.1, 26.2
Reina, Major, 30.1, 31.1
Reinhardt, Max
Renan, Ernest: Life of Jesus
Reni, Guido
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Ricossa, La (Gd’A; speeches)
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 27.1, 28.1
Risaotto al Pomidauro (parody of d’Annunzio)
Risorgimento, 1.1, 8.1, 22.1
Rizzo, Giovanni, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3
Rizzo, Luigi, 30.1, 31.1
Robbia, Marchesa della
Robilant, Countess Margherita di
Robilant, General Count Mario Nicolis di
Rodd, Sir Rennell (later 1st Baron Rennell), 3.1, 28.1
Rodin, Auguste
Rolland, Romain: describes d’Annunzio as pike, 1.1; on d’Annunzio’s “blasphemy”, 3.1; likens d’Annunzio to Marat, 3.2; and d’Annunzio’s Triumph of Death, 13.1; and d’Annunzio’s relations with Barbara, 18.1; meets d’Annunzio in Rome, 21.1; on d’Annunzio at Capponcina, 24.1; meets d’Annunzio in Zurich, 24.2; on Duse’s reaction to Fire, 24.3; praises d’Annunzio’s Francesca da Rimini, 24.4; on isolation of Duse and d’Annunzio, 24.5; on d’Annunzio’s writing hymns of war, 27.1
Roman Elegies (Gd’A; poem cycle)
Romanticism, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1
Rome: d’Annunzio’s pro-war speeches in (1915), 3.1; d’Annunzio’s feeling for, 3.2; d’Annunzio moves to after leaving school, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1; as capital of Italy, 8.2; social distinctions, 9.2; urban development, 9.3; d’Annunzio returns to as married man, 10.1; i
n d’Annunzio’s fiction, 10.2; d’Annunzio lives in after publication of Pleasure, 18.1; d’Annunzio stays in Palazzo Borghese, 22.1; fascist march on (1922), 30.1, 32.1; Palazzo Venezia, 32.2; celebrates 10th anniversary of march on, 32.3; fascist “martyrs” buried, 32.4
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rostand, Edmond
Rubinstein, Ida: d’Annunzio kisses and praises legs, 2.1, 26.1, 32.1; mimes with Ballets Russes, 2.2, 26.2; plays in and funds The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 12.1, 26.3, 26.4, 32.2; style and dress, 26.5; models for Romaine Brooks, 27.1; prepares film version of The Ship, 29.1; dances in Venice, 29.2; visits Vittoriale, 32.3
Rudinì, Marchese Antonio di
Rudinì, Marchesa Alessandra di (“Nike”): affair with d’Annunzio, 2.1, 24.1, 25.1; character and behaviour, 25.2, 25.3; drug-taking, 25.4; ovarian tumour, 25.5; d’Annunzio ends affair with, 25.6
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austro-Hungary
Saba, Umberto
Sabatier, Paul: life of St. Francis
Saint-Point, Valentine
Salandra, Antonio: declares war (1915), 2.1; favours neutrality, 3.1; d’Annunzio gives text of Quarto speech to, 3.2; prepares for entry into war, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5; forms new government, 3.6; consents to d’Annunzio flying over Trieste, 3.7; d’Annunzio meets in Naples, 18.1; sends condolences to injured d’Annunzio, 28.1; attempts to dismiss Cadorna, 28.2; fails to rebuff fascists, 32.1; Victor Emmanuel asks to form government (1922), 32.2; joins opposition to Mussolini, 32.3
Salvemini, Gaetano
Sangallo, Giuliano di
Sangro, Elena
Sarajevo, 26.1, 26.2
Sardinia
Sardinian Brigade
Sarfatti, Margherita, 1.1, 32.1; Dux, 32.2
Sartorio, Aristide
Savage-Landor, A. Henry
Saxe-Weimar, Paula, Princess of see Paola von Ostheim, Princess of Saxe-Weimar
Scarfoglio, Edoardo: on youthful d’Annunzio, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1; in Rome, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1; on d’Annunzio’s social ambitions, 9.2; and d’Annunzio’s isolation in Pescara, 10.1; publishes parody Risaotto al Pomidauro, 10.2; and d’Annunzio’s departure from Rome, 15.1; in Naples, 18.1; criticises parliamentary government, 18.2; arranges sea voyage to Greece and Turkey, 19.1; on d’Annunzio’s relations with Bernhardt, 24.1; on d’Annunzio’s sexual encounter on theatrical tour, 24.2; reviews Cabiria, 26.1
Schnitzler, Arthur
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Scott, Sir Walter, 7.1, 28.1
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
Séailles, Gabriel
Seamen’s Union (Italian), 31.1, 32.1
Sebastian, St., 12.1, 12.2, 26.1, 31.1
Secret Book, The (Gd’A) see Hundred and Hundred and Hundred Pages of the Secret Book, The
Sed non Satiatus (Gd’A; poem)
Serao, Maria (Edoardo Scarfoglio’s wife), 18.1, 18.2
Serao, Mathilde, 11.1, 24.1, 24.2
Serbia: and outbreak of Great War
Serbs: oppose Italian post-war territorial claims, 29.1; and status of Fiume, 29.2
Settignano, Tuscany, 21.1, 24.1; see also Capponcina
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 5.1, 5.2, 12.1, 13.1
Ship, The (La Nave; Gd’A; play): effect of première, 1.1; Pizzetti writes music for, 24.1, 25.1; writing and themes, 25.2, 27.1, 28.1; and Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, 26.1; Milan production with music by Montemezzi, 29.1; film version, 29.2; self-immolation in, 30.1; Sant’Elena production (1938), 32.1
Sibellato, Ercole
“Sin in May” (Gd’A) see Peccato di Maggio
Sinn Féin, 1.1, 31.1
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 2.1, 30.1, 31.1
Siverio, Luigi
socialism: d’Annunzio adopts, 22.1; Mussolini opposes, 29.1, 32.1; conflicts with fascists, 29.2, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5; strength in Italy, 30.1, 32.6; planned uprising, 31.1; favours anti-fascist alliance, 32.7; party proscribed in Italy, 32.8
Sogno d’un Mattino di Primavera (“Dream of a Spring Morning’; Gd’A; play), 21.1, 21.2, 24.1
Sogno d’un Tramonto d’Autunno (“Dream of an Autumn Sunset”; Gd’A; play)
Soissons
Sommaruga, Angelo, 8.1, 10.1
Song of the Dardanelles, The (Gd’A)
Songs of Our Exploits Overseas (Gd’A)
Sonnino, Baron Sidney, 3.1, 3.2, 29.1, 29.2
Sophocles: Antigone
Sorel, Cécile, 26.1, 26.2
Sorel, Georges, 27.1, 31.1; Reflections on Violence, 26.1
Soviet Russia: and world revolution
Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
Spirito, Ugo
Stanislavsky, Konstantin
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Starkie, Walter, 2.1, 32.1
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)
Stevenson, Frances (later Countess Lloyd-George)
Strachey, John St. Loe
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Suetonius
suicide: in d’Annunzio’s writings
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 26.1; Ballad of Death, 25.1
Symons, Arthur
syndicalism: in Fiume
Tasca, Angelo
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron: romanticism, 12.1; Crossing the Bar, 25.1; Idylls of the King, 6.1; “Maud”, 16.1
Terra Virgine (Gd’A; prose collection)
Tescher, Mary
Testa di Ferro (“Iron Head’; journal), 31.1, 31.2
Thode, Henry
Thompson, Mark, 1.1, 3.1, 28.1
Timavo, River
To a Torpedo Boat in the Adriatic (Gd’A; ode)
Tocca di Casauria (village), Abruzzi
Toledo, Marchesa Beatrice Alvarez
Toscanini, Arturo, 7.1, 28.1, 32.1
Tosti, Francesco Paolo: in Abruzzi, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; in Rome, 8.1
Tregua, La (GdA; poem)
Treves, Antonietta
Treves, Emilio (publisher): d’Annunzio begs advance from, 3.1; d’Annunzio sends Pleasure to, 15.1; promotes d’Annunzio, 17.1; declines to publish The Innocent, 18.1; and d’Annunzio’s election to parliament, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3; and d’Annunzio’s Glory, 24.1; d’Annunzio writes to on impending death, 25.1; publishes Maybe Yes, Maybe No in two volumes, 25.2; publishes d’Annunzio’s Songs of Our Exploits Overseas, 26.1; and d’Annunzio’s film Cabiria, 26.2; publishes d’Annunzio’s Complete Works, 32.1
Tribuna, La: d’Annunzio works on, 10.1, 10.2; d’Annunzio leaves, 15.1
Trier (caricaturist)
Trieste: in Great War, 3.1; d’Annunzio’s wartime flight over, 3.2, 28.1; Austrians abandon, 28.2; fascist violence in, 31.1
Trionfo della Morte, Il (Gd’A) see Triumph of Death, The
Triple Alliance (Austria-Germany-Italy, 1882), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 14.1, 27.1
Triumph of Death, The (Il Trionfo della Morte; Gd’A; novel): music in, 2.1; suicide in, 2.2, 18.1; influenced by Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, 6.1; church scene, 7.1; illness in, 13.1; sex in, 13.2; autobiographical element, 13.3, 14.1; writing, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1; peasants in, 18.5; cites Nietzsche, 18.6; on superior and inferior beings, 18.7; Duse reads and condemns, 20.1
Trotsky, Leon
Turati, Filippo
Turin, 24.1, 31.1
Umberto I, King of Italy, 5.1, 24.1
“Undulna” (Gd’A; ode)
Union of Free Spirits Tending Towards Perfection, 1.1, 31.1
United States of America: enters Great War
Uscocchi (group), 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3
Vadalà, Captain Rocco
Valéry, Paul, 32.1, 32.2
Vansittart, Robert, Baron
Vasari, Giorgio, 9.1, 12.1
Vecchi, Ferruccio
Vedetta, La (newspaper), 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 31.2, 31.3
Veglia (island)
Veneto: Italy regains
Venice: d’Annunzio in, 2.1, 3.1, 28.1; in Great War, 3.2, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4; d’Annunzio views from air, 3.3; d’Annunzio first
visits, 14.1; d’Annunzio meets Hérelle in, 19.1; International Arts Exhibition (first Biennale, 1895), 20.1; campanile collapses, 22.1; d’Annunzio presents MS of The Ship to, 25.1; d’Annunzio occupies Casetta Rossa in Great War, 28.5; Palazzo Contarini dal Zaffo, 28.6; d’Annunzio recovers from eye operation in, 28.7; Sacca della Misericordia, 28.8; Casetta Rossa, 28.9; Palazzo Pisani, 28.10; art works removed in war, 28.11; as d’Annunzio’s post-war base, 29.1; d’Annunzio returns to after Fiume defeat, 31.1, 32.1
Venturina (d’Annunzio’s lover)
Verdi, Giuseppe, 16.1, 16.2, 24.1
Verga, Giovanni, 6.1; Life in the Fields, 7.1
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Versilia, Tuscany
Vetsera, Marie
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 5.1, 16.1
Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy: reads text of d’Annunzio’s Quarto speech, 3.1; Gioletti declines request to form government (1915), 3.2; invites Salandra to form government, 3.3; d’Annunzio writes ode on accession, 24.1; supports Cadorna, 28.1, 29.1; replaces Cadorna with Diaz, 28.2; d’Annunzio meets, 29.2; and d’Annunzio as potential Italian leader, 30.1; condemns d’Annunzio’s annexation of Fiume, 30.2; and fascist march on Rome, 32.1; asks Mussolini to form government (1922), 32.2; reviews blackshirts, 32.3
Vienna, 24.1; d’Annunzio’s pamphlet air raid on, 28.1
Vierne, Louis
Villa Chigi (Gd’A; elegy)
Virgil: Aeneid
Virgin Anna, The (Gd’A; story)
Virgin Orsola, The, see Book of the Virgins, The
Virgins of the Rocks, The (Gd’A; novel), 18.1, 19.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 28.1
vitalism
Vittoriale (earlier Villa Cargnacco; d’Annunzio’s home): d’Annunzio occupies and owns, 2.1, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3; Mussolini visits, 28.1, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6, 32.7; Arengo and garden, 32.8, 32.9; design and decor, 32.10, 32.11, 32.12, 32.13, 32.14, 32.15; d’Annunzio offers to nation, 32.16; Mussolini declares National Monument, 32.17; visitors, 32.18; d’Annunzio plans museum of war, 32.19, 32.20; local tavern closed down, 32.21; mausoleum, 32.22
Vittorio Veneto, 28.1, 29.1
Voce, La (journal), 26.1, 27.1
Vodovosoff, Engineer
Volpe, Giacchino
Wagner, Cosima
Wagner, Richard, 2.1, 18.1, 23.1, 24.1; death, 23.2; Tristan and Isolde, 6.1, 18.2
Washington, Hotel, Garda: d’Annunzio acquires
Wells, H. G., 25.1; The War in the Air, 28.1
Westerhout, Niccolò, 2.1, 18.1