by Gabriele D'Annunzio · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804340348
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«Il piacere» is the novel by Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, published by Mondadori in paperback (360 pages, in Italian).
Published in 1889, it narrates the life of Andrea Sperelli, a young aristocrat, poet and painter, an aesthete devoted to pleasure and beauty in decadent fin-de-siècle Rome. Tormented by a broken relationship, he moves between worldly adventures and excesses. A central work of Italian decadentism, it portrays the moral decay of a society.
Italian edition published by Mondadori in 1995 in the Oscar classici moderni collection, number 34.
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924. He had the epithets il Profeta and il Vate : vate stems from the Latin vates, meaning a prophetic, divinatory, or inspirational poet.
