Gabriele d'Annunzio and the Vittoriale (Gardone)

Once when Mussolini was questioned about the regular payments Il Duce doled out to writer, womanizer, and daredevil Gabriele d'Annunzio, he's reported to have replied, "When you are saddled with a rotten tooth, you have two possibilities open to you: either you pull out the tooth or else you fill it with gold. With d'Annunzio I have chosen the latter treatment". The dentist and the patient have long disappeared, what remains is the gold tooth, d'Annunzio's country villa, modestly called Vittoriale degli Italiani (The shrine of Italian victories in English). With its grounded battleships and design, Alan Licht wrote that "The Vittoriale is at once the tomb, the Luna Park and the sinister torture chamber of Fascism".
Mission by Rossana Iantorno, Enrica Fantino
Look at this mission also on Check-in Architecture website http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/mission/203 or on Google Earth http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/index/earth/mission/203.kml

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[Lirico96]

Il Vittoriale è un luogo romanticissimo: la musica da horror non c'entra nulla!! La descrizione è frammentaria (dice due cose di duemila). No comment al " Fascist luna park"

[LienneLaRenard]

Pessima scelta della musica di fondo, non rispecchia per niente il personaggio di cui si sta parlando. Penoso.

[illupogrigio19]

un lieu inhabituel pour une rencontre très spéciale

[tascmoc]

Why would anyone care what Alan Licht has to say about the Vittoriale??? And who is he, or you for that matter, to dare attempt to analyze or judge the great D'annunzio? Five of the lifetimes of either of you wouldn't match five years of his. Blow off.

[coyello]

documentario davvero scadente...

[nilground]

Ammiro D'Annunzio, ma questo documentario fa pena.

[Giovannisenzaterra]

e pare proprio che,perfino,Lenin disse ai socialisti italiani"vi siete lasciati sfuggire un D'Annunzio!"

forse per la conoscenza della repubblica fiumana