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Described as a prize-winning biography that won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2012, which 'really put D'Annunzio on the kind of the literary and historical map' for Anglophone readers. Lucy Hughes Hallett is the guest on the podcast discussing her book.

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Referenced when discussing D'Annunzio's use of the word 'holocaust' - Lucy explains he was 'taking it from his reading of Flaubert's Salambo in which there is a holocaust a human sacrifice and a holocaust is a kind of sacrifice in which the sacrificial victim is entirely consumed.'