How did Gabriele D'Annunzio view Nazi Germany and Mussolini's alliance with them? Any reliable primary sources?

by ThatThrowa-wayThough

Both his Wikipedia page and this [article] (http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116326/gabriele-dannunzio-poet-seducer-and-preacher-war-reviewed) state that D'Annunzio "detested" the Nazi's and Hitler; but does anyone have any writings of his on the Third Reich or something similar?

JDHoare

Just a quick answer as Italian Facism is one of my pet subjects, but I've got to pop out for lunch!

D'Annunzio wrote on the inside cover of his well-thumbed copy of Dante's Divine Comedy in 1934:

The converted Jew Adolph Hitler with the ignoble face darkened by indelible splashes of the paint or glue that he held in his brush… which has became the sceptre of a ferocious clown…

The theme of 'failed artist' and 'crypto-Jew' is one he returned to in the aftermath of the Pact of Steel, writing to Mussolini in 1937:

You are about to repudiate fiercely the marrano Adolf Hitler, whose ignoble face is obscured under the indelible splashes of whitening and paste from his overflowing decorator's brush, which on top of his cane or pole has become his ferocious clown's sceptre, not without a tuft extending at the root of his 'Nazi' nose.

A merrano was a Spanish Jew who converted to Christianity, but continued to practice his faith in secret.

According to Gabriele D'Annunzio: Defiant Archangel by John Woodhouse, this is the only occasion that D'Annuzio referred directly to the Fuhrer in his correspondence with il Duce.