In response to a recent correspondent: No, while at this year’s fantastic Gardone Conference, I did not visit the Vittoriale. This is because I had looked round it five years ago and decided that D’Annunzio was a rather nasty little man, teeth or no teeth, whom I felt no need to revisit.
But I did go this year and look at an exquisite little octagonal Church , the Inviolata, at Riva. Four altars