Books By the Bay: Fiume Crisis

In this new series, Alexy Khrabrov (chiefscientist.org) talks about the books of interest. Here it is Fiume Crisis -- describing the multicultural city state of Fiume, now Rijeka, after WWI. Gabriele D'Annunzio famously took over it and established the Regency of Carnaro, a new kind of a state based on the ideas of Italy, art, poetry, music, anarchy, Bohemian life, and more. The book goes deeper into the reality of a layered civilization on the interface of cultures, epochs, languages, religions, and so much more. Did you know Marconi moved to Fiume to get a divorce?