Portrait of Gabriele D'Annunzio wearing the Novara Lancers lieutenant-colonel's uniform, inscribed & signed by the sitter. Fiume 1920.

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~ Gelatin silver print pasted to a cardboard mount, size approx. 22cm x 16cm, inscribed by the sitter «Alla Loggia Camilo Grandjacquet / Fiume d'Italia 1920.» and with a top right caption 'Nec recisa recedit' (Not Even Broken Retreats), an ancient gladiator's motto revamped by D'Annunzio and later adopted by the «Guardia di Finanza» / Following Italy's declaration of war on Austria on May 24, 1915 the Italian War Ministry granted D'Annunzio (then 52) the privilege to revive his commission as a lieutenant in the Novara Lancers. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1919 while in Rome, where he was later noticed wearing his uniform while giving some speeches before being expelled to Venice by the government. Once there he requested his own dismissal from the Army only to head the grenadiers' force that, in Sep 12, left the camp at Ronchi to invade Fiume. All this wandering gives little help as to identify the place where this photography was taken. D'Annunzio is reported to have inscribed with the same motto a number of other photographic portraits of himself while commanding the Italian troops in Fiume, where he stayed until Jan 18, 1921. / The dedicatee might have had an affiliation with some relative of Claudio Grandjacquet, one of the seven officers that took an oath to free Fiume at the camp of Ronchi («I giurati di Ronchi») and that was sent to Venice in Aug, 1919 with an appeal to D'Annunzio to lead their mission, becoming a member of the expedition to Fiume ~ In Fine condition // We accept PayPal & EU bank transfer in EUROS //. Codice articolo 6970P

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Titolo: Portrait of Gabriele D'Annunzio wearing the ...

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