First Things RSS Feed - Mattia Ferraresi https://www.firstthings.com/author/mattia-ferraresi en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:59 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/mattia-ferraresi 60 Death’s Lover https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/11/deaths-lover https://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/11/deaths-lover Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0400 An Italian poet, soldier, and dandy, an endless self-promoter, a man deeply intertwined with the intellectual trends and dramatic events that shaped his time, and the subject of enormous attention from prominent figures from all over Europe, Gabriele d’Annunzio might be described with the adjective multanime , a neologism he forged in his novel L’Innocente :a many-sided man, a kaleidoscope that can simultaneously disclose and distort the appearances of reality.

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