Clepsydra Mentitur: The Challenge of Time in D’Annunzio’s Aesthetics and Politics

The essay focuses on the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio's conception of time. In the context of modernism's general redefinition of the parameters of culture and society, D'Annunzio's vision stands out in importance because it clearly links the links between aesthetics and politics. In the context of Italian society, his proposal for the disintegration of the linear flow of time is connected with the criticism of the liberal system and the formulation of an idea that will partly underlie the ideology of the regimes in the interwar period.