Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Lover, Monster

The seducer. "I have just met D'Annunzio. Can this be the man the great Duse loved? He is small, he is bald, and his teeth are in three different colours." The warrior poet in a plane over Vienna. "Today I drop words; next time I will drop bombs" Lucy Hughes-Hallett returned to the show to talk about The Pike , her prize-winning biography of Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938): poet, novelist, war…