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The Fiume Question According to De Ambris
Alceste De Ambris, The Question of Fiume. The Forces and Forms of the City of Life, edited by Gennaro Malgeri, Idrovolante, Rome 2019, 140 pp. The turning point in the Fiume affair occurred on 10 January 1920, when Gabriele d'Annunzio accepted the resignation of Giovanni Giuriati as Head of the Command Cabinet, appointing Alceste De Ambris in his place. Giuriati was willing to accept the compromise suggested by the Italian government. De Ambris, on the other hand, represented the revolutionary (and extremist) soul of Fiumanism. With the appointment of Alceste De Ambris, the heroic period of Fiume began, which, from that moment on, became the destination of a massive migration of soldiers and...
Controversy over Gabriele d'Annunzio and Ronchi dei Legionari
Following the publication of the following article in the Trieste daily newspaper “Il Piccolo” on September 21, 2017, the replies from patriotic associations and exiles were not long in coming. Mesic agrees: the Fiume enterprise will be forgotten The Croatian ambassador in Rome responded to the request of Barone dell’Anpi: «Such anniversaries damage the friendly relations between our countries» by Luca Perrino "A good 98 years of divisions, distinctions, even battles and controversies. The march on Fiume, the one that, on September 12, 1919, saw Gabriele D'Annunzio as its protagonist, is still a topic of discussion in Ronchi dei Legionari. Thus it is that Marco...
