The novel is set in Venice 'at the moment of Wagner's death there and represents, as Anna Meda writes, "D'Annunzio's true theoretical manifesto on art and the role of the artist in the renewal of Italian drama and the promotion of a Latin Renaissance parallel to the one brought about in Germany by great thinkers and artists like Nietzsche and Wagner. Jelisaveta Mojsilovic. Thomas S. Hammond, G. L'or dans un drame Wagnerien , and Michelet, ses amours et ses haines, suioi d'une etude sur Beaumarchais et sur Perrault
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