![]() ![]() The novel staged d'Annunzio's opposition to his own prior classification, while making claims for a more committed and more internationally relevant model of Italian literature in the context of European modernity. This classification determined a reading of d'Annunzio's debut novel in terms of decadence, while Il piacere itself actually pointed toward a literature of regeneration. IL PIACERE A FRANCESCO PAOLO MICHETTI LIBRO PRIMO 1 2 3 4 5 LIBRO SECONDO 1 2 3 4 LIBRO TERZO 1 2 3 4 LIBRO QUARTO 1 2 3 Best viewed with any browser at 800圆00 or 768x1024 on Tablet PC IntraText® (VA2) - Some rights reserved by EuloTech SRL - 1996-2010. It argues that the novel's fin-de-siecle reception was conditioned by the author's prior classification as an immoral, anti-national writer in the wake of the poetry collection Intermezzo di rime. The Renaissance Revival and the Universal Man in Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938) and His TimeĪbstract This paper considers the dialectics between national decadence and regeneration in d'Annunzio's Il piacere. ![]()
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