Gabriele DAnnunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio (March 12, 1863 - March 1, 1938), Italian poet, playwright, daredevil and war hero. From 1919 to 1920 he (rather reluctantly at first) led a coup in the city of Fiume?, Croatia organized by Italian Generals and the local Italian community. He was associated with Benito Mussolini, and his method of government in Fiume, with large emotive nationalistic public rituals, was in many ways a forerunner of Benito Mussolini's methods of propaganda.