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Italy's Ambiguities in the Fiume Enterprise
Gaspari has published an essay by Luca G. Manenti and Fabio Todero that analyses the communication strategies beyond the slogans of the occupation of the city: myths, words and rites of Gabriele d'Annunzio's enterprise in Fiume (12 September 1919 - Christmas of Blood 1920). Source: Il Piccolo -...
The last outbursts of a decadent d'Annunzio
A historically accurate work that recounts the last two years of the poet's life, now rendered harmless by the regime, and advances the hypothesis of death by poisoning. With the release of the film Il cattivo poeta by debutant director Gianluca Jodice, the controversial and fascinating figure of Gabriele D'Annunzio is once again in the news. Focused on the last two years of the poet's life, the work tells how the fascist regime put the poet under strict surveillance by sending a spy to the Vittoriale, the young federal secretary of Brescia, Giovanni Comini (the excellent Francesco Patanè). In order to prevent the demonstration...
Fiume, the city of life one hundred years later
On May 24, 1915, the Kingdom of Italy entered the First World War with a series of territorial claims established by the London Pact regarding Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Fiume was to be the remaining outlet to the Adriatic of a downsized Austro-Hungarian Empire deprived of Trieste, its main maritime port. The irruption onto the political scene of the principle of self-determination of peoples, the implosion of the dual monarchy and the birth of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the claims of Italianity by Andrea Ossoinack (the last representative of the capital of Carnaro in the Parliament of Budapest) and the Council...
The city of life one hundred years later
Davide Rossi (edited by), The city of life one hundred years later. Fiume, d'Annunzio and the long Adriatic twentieth century, Wolters Kluwer - Cedam, Padova 2020, 460 pp. This volume condenses the reports of a conference organized by Coordinamento Adriatico APS thanks to a contribution from L. 72/2001, initially conceived in Fiume, then held in Gorizia, on 27 and 28 June 2019, entitled The long twentieth century. The Adriatic question in Fiume between the two Paris Peace Conferences 1919 - 1947, in which the centrality of the city of Quarnera emerged in the twentieth century, as a bridge between East and West, a yearning of Italian nationalism, supported by a strong local autonomist spirit,...
D'Annunzio and Fiume: Poetry and Historical Research
The online conference organized by the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian exiles, dedicated to the feat of the capital of Kvarner, saw the participation of numerous Italian historians and academics by Stella Defranza - 24/12/2020 Source: La Voce del Popolo The Federation of Associations of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian exiles together with other cultural associations and research institutions organized the online conference entitled “D'Annunzio and Rijeka 100 years after the feat: a laboratory of ideas and utopias”. The virtual meeting could be followed both on Facebook, with a live broadcast from the LimesClub Verona page, and on Youtube, from...
D'Annunzio and Fiume: a laboratory of ideas and utopias
On the occasion of the Centenary of the Bloody Christmas that put an end to Gabriele d'Annunzio's Fiume enterprise, the teleconference "D'Annunzio and Fiume 22 years after the enterprise: a laboratory of ideas and utopias" will take place on Tuesday 15 December from 00:17 pm to 30:100 pm. Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/limesclubverona/ YouTube Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_PldFZ0qAh75ncoNtfG-A At these links it will then be possible to watch the conference in streaming. The moderator of the meeting will be Lawyer Mattia Magrassi (President of LimesClub Verona), the President of Serit Massimo Mariotti will bring a greeting message and Paolo will intervene by performing some readings...
The only reason to live
Fiume's passion will survive transformed into splendor. Fiume's constancy will survive transfigured into brilliance. NEW IN BOOKSTORES Emanuele Merlino (edited by), The only reason to live. D'Annunzio, the Carta del Carnaro and the Liberating Army, with contributions by: F. Carlesi, E. Grego, M. Micich, M. Runco, Passaggio al Bosco, 2020; with the patronage of the Comitato 10 Febbraio. One hundred years ago, Fiume's enterprise shocked the world. They were sixteen months of heresy, of political laboratories, of celebration and – above all – of Italianness. Everything was coveted, everything was attempted. Of that incredible experience, in addition to the memory, its...
There was no exodus of Croats from Fiume in 1920
Rethinking the Fiume Enterprise, but with objective historical data. There was no exodus of Croats from Fiume in 1920. I received an article by Mr. Marco Barone, published in the "Reports" column of the Trieste daily newspaper Il Piccolo, on which I would like to make some observations for the sake of historical objectivity, which is based on reliable data, not imaginary data or data from foreign sources. Certainly, not all Fiume residents favored the continuation of D'Annunzio's Enterprise. This first occurred in December 1919 (about three months after D'Annunzio's Holy Entry on September 12, 1919, with his volunteers), when the Italian National Council of...
Toscanini's concert in Rijeka
At the invitation of Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Maestro performed with his Orchestra for charity by Ilaria Rocchi - 19/11/2020 Source: La Voce del Popolo A memorable event, which Fiume experienced a hundred years ago, and which Arturo Toscanini (Parma, 1867 – New York, 1957) would remember forever, also because never, ever in his life, happened to him – by his own admission – to witness “such a sincere, intense, plebiscitary exaltation of patriotic love”. The Fiume enterprise enthralled many in Italy and one of the greatest conductors of all time did not shy away from this feeling, who already on several occasions, including during the Great...
The Constitution According to D'Annunzio
The Carta del Carnaro is a singular constitutional act neglected by legal studies. It cannot be seen as an episode of interest only in the local reality of Fiume in the first post-war period but must be placed in the profound upheavals that in that period marked Central Europe, from the Baltic to the Balkans. The book leaves in the background the historical debate on Fiumanism and the complex events that marked the relations between Italy and Yugoslavia and focuses on the original setting of the choices shared between Alceste De Ambris and Gabriele d'Annunzio, highlighting the originality of the conception of rights that revealed itself as a forerunner of constituent decisions...
