D'Annunzio's literary creations were strongly influenced by the French Symbolist school, and contain episodes of striking violence and depictions of abnormal mental states interspersed with gorgeously imagined scenes. He wrote the screenplay to the feature film Cabiria (1914) based on episodes from the Second Punic War. Three weeks into its December 1901 run at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome, his tragedy Francesca da Rimini was banned by the censor on grounds of morality.Ī prolific writer, his novels in Italian include Il piacere ( The Child of Pleasure, 1889), Il trionfo della morte ( The Triumph of Death, 1894), and Le vergini delle rocce ( The Virgins of the Rocks, 1896). An 1898 New York Times review of his novel The Intruder referred to him as "evil", "entirely selfish and corrupt". Indeed, even before his fascist period, he had his strong detractors. Although his work had immense impact across Europe, and influenced generations of Italian writers, his fin de siècle works are now little known, and his literary reputation has always been clouded by his fascist associations. At the height of his success, d'Annunzio was celebrated for the originality, power and decadence of his writing.
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