Prevailing narratives about post-war Fiume have focussed on D’Annunzio and Dan-nunzianism as forerunners of Mussolini and Fascism. This review analyses three new books marked by the common purpose of going beyond D’Annunzio, although their au-thors (R. Pupo, M. Mondini and D. Reill) deal in different ways with the legacies of the Great War and of the Habsburg Empire. Notably, Reill’s The Fiume Crisis questions ap-proaches exclusively focused on violence and nationalism.
Keywords: Fiume, Paramilitarismo, Impero asburgico, Dopoguerra