as a direct consequence in 1920 gabriele d'annunzio made his famous occupation of fiume. the so-called "poeta imaginífico" did a dramatic attack with paramilitaries and a group of "legionnaires" from the italian city of monfalcone and occupied the city of fiume, which the allied powers had assigned to italy as the winner of the war. with this gesture d'annunzio reached the pinnacle of the process of building their own personal and political myth. d'annunzio personally entered fiume with a column of dalmatian italian volunteers (mostly irredentist).