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Unknown Militi, women tell the Son of Italy
On the occasion of the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier at the Altar of the Fatherland in Rome, Idrovolante Edizioni is publishing a very special book. Titled “Ignoto Militi”, it is a collection of writings all signed by women authors. “Because if the Unknown Soldier is a son of Italy – we read on the back cover – women are his girlfriends, wives, daughters, mothers. Mothers like Maria Bergamas, who gave the life of her son Antonio to the Fatherland and who was charged with choosing, from eleven coffins of nameless fallen soldiers, the one that was taken to the Vittoriano in Rome. And which is still there, to symbolize the eternity of the sacrifice of...
Italy, “Blessed Land” Even on Its Eastern Border
Emanuele Mastrangelo - Emanuele Merlino - Enrico Petrucci (edited by), Blessed Land. Stories of Italy and great Italians, Idrovolante, Rome 2020. From the literary collective that gave life to the project Heroes. Twenty-two stories from the Great War, a new anthology of Stories to remember that Italy is so rich in Heroes and courage that it can positively overturn the famous maxim of Bertold Brecht "Wretched is the land that needs heroes". And for this reason, especially in a time of fear and pandemic, it is always necessary to remember the greatness of our history. 15 historical stories of heroes in war, heroes in peace, heroes in sports, heroes in industry, heroes...
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...
