Over a hundred years ago, Gabriele d'Annunzio entered Fiume to annex it to the Kingdom of Italy, sparking what would become a revolution lasting five hundred days. A feverish and festive, but above all sacred, atmosphere is reconstructed here through rare and unpublished documents, glimpses of a flame lit in the dark heart of the twentieth century.

FOCUS AND DOSSIER:

The preparation of the Ronchi march ∗ Against the League of Nations, for the self-determination of peoples ∗ Fiume and the archaic foundation rites ∗ The coups and the Uskoks ∗ Women in Fiume ∗ A Dadaist telegram to d'Annunzio ∗ Harukichi Shimoi ∗ Spiritualism in Fiume ∗ Fiume and the Orient ∗ Armando Simonetti ∗ The dance of San Vito ∗ The magazine «Yoga» ∗ Anarchists in Fiume ∗ Beyond Fascism and 1968 ∗ Giovanni Host-Venturi ∗ The Bloody Christmas.

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:

Margot Besozzi Keller, Stefano Eugenio Bona, Renato “Mercy” Carpaneto, Riccardo Frassetto, Anita Ginella, Carlo Otto Guglielmino, Giovanni Host-Venturi, Guido Keller, Léon Kochnitzky, Daniele Laganà, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Adriano Monti Buzzetti Colella, Renzo Novatore, Daniele Orzati, Arianna Pagani, Guido Andrea Pautasso, Luigi Pennone, Alex Pietrogiacomi, Antonio Pinna Berchet, Federico Pinna Berchet, Lidia Ratti, Andrea Scarabelli, Harukichi Shimoi, Armando Simonetti, Luca Siniscalco, Luca Valentini, Randolfo Vella, Giovanni Volpe, Luisa Zeni.

Various Authors, Nineteen Rivers. The Sacred Fire of the City of Life , Bietti, Rome 2019, pp. 228.