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...
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