D'Annunzio

“After you see something like this, the first reaction is ‘wow,’” said Davide Sulcanese, a doctoral student at the Università d’Annunzio in Pescara, Italy, and an author of a study reporting the discovery in the journal Nature Astronomy, published on Monday.

No other work was deemed worthy of a silver or bronze, including one by the Italian poet and novelist Gabriele d’Annunzio.

Her work inspired several plays, including “Tamara,” an interactive show about her disastrous attempt to paint the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio that ran in Los Angeles for nearly a decade, and in New York.

Remi D'Annunzio, a fellow FAO forestry officer, says that all the available imagery from space "has tremendously changed the way we monitor forests, because it has produced extremely repeatable observations and extremely frequent revisits of places".

But it was not actually about her, as it was based on a book about her visit to Gabriele d’Annunzio’s infamously debaucherous estate, written by the Italian poet’s housekeeper.