Gabriele D'Annunzio
Elegìe Romane
"Elegìe Romane" by Gabriele D'Annunzio is a poetry collection published in 1892. Inspired by Goethe's Roman Elegies about his Italian journey, D'Annunzio frames his work with the German poet's verses. Composed between 1887 and 1892, these elegies are often read as a psychological diary tracing emotional states from exaltation to romantic weariness. Some scholars see them instead as exercises in Parnassian style, where personal experience becomes a pretext for rhythmic and semantic literary invention.