A poet fought in WWI, got pissed that Italy didn't conquer some territories, got and army of followers and invaded them himself, directed genocides, invented fascism, and then went on vacation
```d'Annunzio, who lived between 1863 and 1938. He was a war hero and famous libertine, and he essentially invented Fascism as an art project because he felt representative democracy was bourgeois and lacked a romantic dramatic arc.```
```He felt the state should get out of the way of the brilliant people, plus maybe engage in perpetual imperial expansion because war is a beautiful and glorious crucible.```
