Where it was filmed 'Bad Poet'

In the early scenes of the film, young Giovanni Comini (Francesco Patanè), an ardent Fascist, walks in his uniform across piazza della Vittoria in Brescia, leaving Palazzo delle Poste behind him as he joins his family who has organized a little reception for him. The square was actually built by the Fascist regime between 1927 and 1932, designed by architect and urbanist Marcello Piacentini.  The building bearing the name “Casa del fascio of Brescia”, where the recently promoted segretario federale (Fascist party secretary) will work, is actually the Istituto storico e di cultura dell’Arma del Genio (the Historical and Cultural Institute of Civil Engineering), located on Lungotevere della Vittoria 31, Rome, which was built in 1939 to house the museum.

Shortly after his appointment, Comini is summoned to Palazzo Venezia in Rome where he is asked to keep an eye on the “Vate” (“Poet”) Gabriele D’Annunzio, who is making Mussolini uneasy and is perceived as a threat to his plans of expansion. His entrance into the building is preceded by a long walk along the colonnade of the Vittoriano where the segretario federale looks over piazza Venezia as Mussolini’s booming speech rings out.

From that moment on, the young man becomes a friend and confidant to the Poet (Sergio Castellitto), a welcome guest at the Vittorale degli Italiani, the house-museum on the Gardone Riviera, lake Garda, that D’Annunzio built in 1921 and where he spent the last part of his life.