This companion of love, however, is a femme fatale, which leads him to the precipice. He is believed to dominate nature with his power, and sets out to conquer nature with a companion.
The superman of d'Annunzio is an esthete cultured, who loves only art, and we dedicate ourselves with all his being. In the novel is the theme of Nietzsche's superman, glimpsed by D'Annunzio in a new way. Finally Giorgio decides that his only recourse is to carry her over a seaside cliff, killing the both of them. While Giorgio becomes more and more unmoored and desperate to leave both Abruzzo and what he perceives as Ippolita's unwholesome influence, she remains amused and fascinated by their surroundings. Giorgio is additionally obsessed with death, and matters only become worse after the pair undertake a pilgrimage to the shrine of Casalbordino, where the multitude of desperate supplicants begging cures of the statue of the Madonna drives them away in horror. Ippolita joins him, and the two pursue a summer of decadent languor marred only by Giorgio's developing paranoia towards her.
Giorgio curses his father, abandoning his family, and runs to the sea, buying a house on a hill in San Vito Chietino. Worse, Giorgio discovers that his actual father has squandered the family fortune, forcing his mother and siblings to live in poverty while he carries on with a prostitute. Giorgio arrives in the beautiful city of stone, and is fascinated by the sculptures however, he is equally haunted by popular superstitions and the memories of the suicide of his uncle Demetrio, whom he had loved as a father. After a brief interlude with Ippolita in Albano, Giorgio receives a telegram from his mother, who lives in the small mountain village of Guardiagrele. The noble aesthete Giorgio Aurispa, besotted with his unhappily-married lover Ippolita, leaves Rome after witnessing a suicide. The story is set in the Abruzzo region, the birthplace of the author.
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