On Thursday 9 October at 18.30, British cultural historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett will be joining us for an evening devoted to the charismatic, controversial poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett will read from and talk about her best-selling biography, The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War, which, among its accolades, was winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the 2013 Costa Book Awards Biography of the Year.

The event will be in English and followed by a prosecco reception with the author.

Copies of the book will be on sale in our gift shop. Tickets for the event cost €8 and must be purchased in advance through the Keats-Shelley House ([email protected]; 06 678 42 35).

Click here for more information on Lucy Hughes-Hallett and her work on D'Annunzio.