The All-Being Eye: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Somatic Visions of Wartime Italy

In January 1916, Gabriele D’Annunzio was flying a dangerous propaganda mission as a fighter pilot in the First World War when his plane was shot down by enemy fire. Suffering extreme pain from a detached retina in his right eye, the eminent Italian poet and political activist was forced to

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