Innocent Person

★One of the works in the "Rose Trilogy" series by Gabriele D'Annunzio, a representative figure in Italian aestheticism literature. ★A story about confession, a completely rebellious character, a cynical and ruthless confession, a work worthy of inclusion in the European literary landscape. ★Visconti's movie of the same name, which expresses a delicate and gorgeous aristocratic elegy. [About the author] Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the most influential poets in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and a representative figure of Italian aestheticism literature. He is the author of "The Rose Trilogy" ("Joy", "The Innocents", "The Triumph of Death"), "Fire", etc. [Introduction] "The Innocents" was published in 1891 and is the most important part of the "Rose Trilogy". This is a story about repentance, the confession of Tulio, a descendant of the aristocracy, who was greedy for the stimulation of desire and enjoyed extraordinary pleasure; he was also anxious because he was ashamed of his wife's tenderness, and later resented his wife's temporary weakness and infidelity, committing an irreparable sin. In Tulio, "many vague and opposite things are entangled together." The novel focuses on depicting people's ideological contradictions, moral swings, and mental torture. Tullio is completely a D'Annunzio-like hero, a cynical and ruthless esthete, a passionate lover and a rigorous intellectual, good at thinking and introspection, so real and showing the charm of human nature.