Barbara Spackman is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature and holder of the Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair in Italian Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy, winner of the Howard R. Marraro and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Italian Literary Studies given by the MLA.

Decadent Genealogies is an important book because it will promote further research into the intricate ties between D'Annunzio and the Futurists.- Angela Dalle Vacche (SubStance)