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Vittoriale degli Italiani, over 2022 thousand visitors in 267
For the Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera (Brescia), 2022 was the year of recovery, with an increase in admissions of almost 50 percent compared to 2021 (49,40 percent to be precise), which led Gabriele d'Annunzio's house museum to close the year with 267.512 visitors (compared to 179.047 in 2021). "An important result that once again places the Vittoriale among the most visited house museums in the world", comments the president of the Il Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation, historian Giordano Bruno Guerri. "This result confirms a management model that works and that in recent years has been able to tenaciously face the pandemic crisis...
The Vittoriale, the people of Fiume and the European dialogue
With reference to Mr. Bernkopf's intervention regarding the flag of the Municipality of Rijeka/Fiume displayed on the flagpoles at the Vittoriale degli italiani, I would like to explain a factual reality to the reading public. As Secretary General of the Society of Fiumani Studies and director of the Historical Archive Museum of Fiume, reconstituted in exile in Rome in 1960, I am very grateful to the President of the Vittoriale Foundation Giordano Bruno Guerri for having offered the widest collaboration and friendship towards our institution in these years. This collaboration has borne fruit not only in the field of studies on the D'Annunzio period of Fiume, but also in the...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, the most private and scandalous side
"Keep freedom intact to the point of intoxication." Benignly obsessed by the ghost of Gabriele D'Annunzio - of whom I suspect he is the reincarnation - Giordano Bruno Guerri prepares the conference on the madness of the Poet at night (at the Follemente festival in Teramo, directed by Gianluca Veneziani). And in the meantime he receives the news of his reconfirmation as President of the Vittoriale degl'Italiani. With his fourth mandate in thirteen years, he is a repeat offender. By now he is part of the sacred walls. Giordano, the dust of the centuries settles on you. Still president and with a museum/mausoleum/circus maximus that receives no public funding, and with Franceschini, a left-wing minister who renames...
The Vittoriale is the plastic representation of an idea
On the occasion of the centenary of the Vittoriale, we resume the interview on the subject with the historian Marco Cimmino, edited by our friends at Verticale-Blog. 1) At the Vittoriale there is not only the imprint of the style of one of the great spirits of Italy, but almost the trace of a manifesto of life, of a declaration to the world. Could you try to explain to us better what it is about? The Vittoriale is the plastic representation of an idea: not of an idea of a house, but of a vision of things, of a precise Weltanschauung. Originally, Villa Maroni was a beautiful house on the hill, like so many on the shores of Garda: Gabriele D'Annunzio transformed it into a place...
The first Summer School of Eastern Border History successfully concluded
Great satisfaction among the organizers of the first summer school for teachers dedicated to the history of the eastern Italian border, namely the Working Table of the Ministry of Education and the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, and among those who were able to participate, having the requirements set out in the announcement released in June. The possibility of meeting in person and in compliance with the anti-Covid restrictions in the wonderful structure of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, the kind hospitality of Giordano Bruno Guerri, President of the Fondazione il Vittoriale, and the organizational machine put in place by Prof. Caterina Spezzano, director of the...
Eastern Border History Summer School
New, important step forward in the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles: a summer school dedicated to the history of the eastern border in the prestigious setting of the Vittoriale. In fact, from 12 to 16 July, as part of the activities “The events of the eastern border and the world of school”, the first summer school entitled “The difficult twentieth century of the eastern border. From the Italian Risorgimento to European perspectives” will take place in Gardone Riviera (in the province of Brescia) in the Vittoriale degli Italiani as part of the initiatives for the centenary of the sumptuous residence of Gabriele...
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...
Burial of Senator Gigante's remains
The burial ceremony of the remains of Senator Riccardo Gigante from Fiume will be held on February 15, 2020 at 11 am at the Vittoriale – Auditorium - Gardone Riviera; admission is free. Program 11 am – gathering of participants in Piazzetta Dalmata – Flag-raising ceremony 11.15 am – Auditorium – The President of the Vittoriale Giordano Bruno Guerri will speak and moderate. Speakers: Senator Maurizio Gasparri Dr. Stefano Bruno Galli – Councilor for Autonomy and Culture of Lombardy General Giuseppenicola Onorcaduti – representative Prof. Giovanni Stelli – president of the Society of Studies...
Fiume 1919-2019 A European Centenary
International Conference of Studies Fiume 1919-2019 A European Centenary between Identity, Memories and Research Perspectives. On the centenary of the Fiume Enterprise, the Vittoriale degli Italiani is promoting an International Conference on 5-6-7 September 2019 in order to draw up a balance sheet of the studies and suggest new avenues of research. The work will be divided into three days and the proceedings will be published by the Foundation. The interventions will focus on the influence of the Fiume Enterprise on politics and memory, through a comparative approach between Italian and Croatian historiography. The conference will close with a round table coordinated by the president Giordano Bruno Guerri, who...
Meeting with Giordano Bruno Guerri and other initiatives of the Society of Fiumani Studies
December 2, 2017 President Giovanni Stelli and Director of the Historical Archive Museum of Fiume Marino Micich met with the President of the Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation Giordano Bruno Guerri. Some programmatic lines of collaboration have been established between the Society of Fiumani Studies and the Vittoriale Foundation whose president has established a "Fiume Office" with Dr. Federico Carlo Simonelli as contact, to be able to celebrate the next centenary of the D'Annunzio Enterprise of Fiume (1919-2019) also with the involvement of the Fiume exiles. Initiatives are planned at the Vittoriale, in Rome and in Fiume. In Fiume (Rijeka) in particular, contact will be made with...
