AHC/WI: Gabriele D'Annunzio as Italian PM?

So, I was surprised by how little talk there is on the possibility of Fascist leader Gabriele D'Annunzio coming to power in Italy in the 1920s, instead of Mussolini.

What changes would it take, how could this come about and what are the effects? How will D'Annunzio rule Italy?
 
D'Annunzio was seen more as a revolutionary than Benny (the king and the rest of the enstablishment thought he can be controlled) and if he try an analogue of the March on Rome, VEIII will give the order to shoot, plus he don't have the attention neither the desire to do the gritty and boring day to day political stuff necessary to create something like the PFI, he will not succeed in bring together the so different group that formed his powerbase and/or play one against the other.
Even if he, for whatever divine intervention, get the PM job...he will soon leave any serious political work to his deputy and occupy his time with booze, drugs, women and/or some spectacular endevour as his attention span was very brief
 

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He never managed to build the massed movement that Mussolini did, rather a small collection of fanatics.

However if he gets to power, there’d be no Axis and alliance with Hitler.
 

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D'Annunzio was seen more as a revolutionary than Benny (the king and the rest of the enstablishment thought he can be controlled) and if he try an analogue of the March on Rome, VEIII will give the order to shoot, plus he don't have the attention neither the desire to do the gritty and boring day to day political stuff necessary to create something like the PFI, he will not succeed in bring together the so different group that formed his powerbase and/or play one against the other.
Even if he, for whatever divine intervention, get the PM job...he will soon leave any serious political work to his deputy and occupy his time with booze, drugs, women and/or some spectacular endevour as his attention span was very brief

Would that make it impossible for Benny or the Fascists to ever take over?
 
I wonder how that would effect the memory of his art. Maybe people like Eleonora Duse would be more well known.
 
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