by Gabriele D'Annunzio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804495987
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Il Piacere is a novel by the Italian poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, published in 1889. The story follows Andrea Sperelli, a young Roman aristocrat, in his pursuit of pleasure and beauty. Set in late 19th-century Rome, the novel explores themes of decadence, sensuality, and the hedonistic pursuit of art and love. Sperelli, a refined aesthete, is torn between two women: Elena Muti, a married and passionate woman, and Maria Ferres, an innocent and virtuous widow. Through their relationships, D'Annunzio examines the nature of desire, morality, and the dissolution of the Italian aristocracy.
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.
