Dalrymple reviews Lucy Hughes-Hallett’s The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio — Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War:
D’Annunzio was an exquisite: a poet, novelist, æsthete, Lothario. He felt as unbound by social convention as by morality of any kind.
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