by Gabriele D'Annunzio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788879837699
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«Il piacere» is Gabriele D'Annunzio's novel, published by Newton Compton in paperback (268 pages, in Italian).
Set in Rome at the end of the nineteenth century, the novel follows Andrea Sperelli, a refined aristocrat whose life revolves around art and pleasure. Caught between two loves, his behaviour reflects the decadence and vanity of his era and leads him to a progressive personal decline.
Unabridged edition edited by Gianni Oliva, published in 1995 in the collection Biblioteca Economica Newton.
For readers of Italian classics interested in the psychological and social portrait of the turn-of-the-century 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.
