World Medals: Castiglioni, Giannino (Italian, 1884-1971); b. Milan, and Farè, Enrico (Italian, fl. 1898-1930), b. not known, and Stabilimento SpA Stefano Johnson (Milan, 1836-present) ITALY, Gabriele d'Annunzio, 1921, a light bronze plaque by G. Castiglioni and E. Farè for Johnson, bust left in cap, rev. naked figure of Hercules standing facing, holding a knife in his right hand, defending a naked female seated on a rock behind him from a group of serpents, edge impressed bronzo, 82 x 60mm, 196.19g (Casolari I, 11; cf. Nomisma 72, 1551). About extremely fine, very rare £150-£200 Gabriele d'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (1863-1938), poet, playwright, orator, journalist, politician and aristocrat; b. Pescara; during World War I he served with the elite Arditi storm troops of the Italian army and as a fighter pilot in the latter months of the War, him having first flown with Wilbur Wright in 1908. As part of an Italian nationalist reaction against the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, he set up the short-lived Italian regency of Carnaro in Fiume, with himself as Duce, until he was removed from power in December 1920. Although d'Annunzio later preached nationalism and never called himself a fascist, he has been credited with partially inventing Italian fascism as his ideas and aesthetics were an influence upon Benito Mussolini, whom he later unsuccessfully attempted not to fall under the influence of Adolf Hitler