The Italian Republic has not yet an anthem for the Inno di Mameli from well 63 years is just the hymn "temporary". It regularly newspaper is the controversy whether to adopt it outright or replace it with "Va pensiero". In 1943, after the armistice of 8 September, the government led by General Pietro Badoglio takes as its national anthem "The Song of the Piave. On 14 October 1946, a measure the government adopts the Inno di Mameli as the national anthem of the Italian Republic, without which the measure is approved by Parliament. Certainly, the Inno di Mameli has an exciting story: December 23, 1822 was born in Genoa the maestro of music composer Michele Novaro. On September 5, 1827 Goffredo Mameli who was born in Genoa in 1847, just twenty years, wrote the lyrics of the first music played on the basis fallback, and then presented Dec. 10 in Genoa, in the musical version of Novaro, before an audience of 30 thousand patriots. In 1848 the notes of the ring on the barricades of the Five Days of Milan. Goffredo Mameli dies at age 22 following a hit during the fighting for the Roman Republic at Villa del Vessel (where he is currently the headquarters of Freemasonry of the Grand Orient of Italy in Palazzo Giustiniani). In 1862, Giuseppe Verdi wrote the 'national hymn, "calling the tune of" Brothers of Italy "next to the Marseillaise systematically ignoring the Royal March. The national anthem takes on particular significance after the election as President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, who re-evaluates the patriotic symbols and especially the national flag and anthem. Unfortunately, most Italians are not familiar with all the meanings of our anthem, which is a significant reading of our Risorgimento. Tarquin Maiorino, Giuseppe Marchetti three rooms and Peter Jordan in their book "Brothers of Italy - the true story of the hymn," published in Milan in 2001 for the types of the publishing house Mondadori, and rightly argue that the key verse of the Hymn is the one that says: "From the Alps to Sicily / Everywhere and wood / Every man Ferruccio / has the heart and the hand / The children of Italy / Are called Balilla / The sound of each ring / I Vespers. "
In no more than eight lines, Mameli was able to concentrate a champion of libertarian moments in different parts of Italy: it matters little that they were contemporaries and each had its own characteristics. The first is the battle of Legnano, 1176 in which the Lombard League defeated Frederick Barbarossa. The second is the ultimate defense of besieged Florence in 1530 by Charles V (in agreement with Pope Clement VII) to put on the throne of the Medici in the battle of Gavinana distinguished captain Francesco Ferrucci, who pitched gained a victory, but fell then wounded and a prisoner was murdered by an Italian to foreign money, Fabrizio Maramaldo. The third episode brings to Genoa of 1746, when a boy, Giovanni Battista Perasso, nicknamed "the Balilla", throwing stones, was the symbol of anti-Austrian revolt. Finally, "the sound of each ring is the sound of bells on the evening of March 30, 1282 called the parliamentary insurrection (the Sicilian Vespers) against the French of Charles of Anjou." So the Inno di Mameli is not only "Italy has awakened, Let her bow down, that slave of Rome, God has made," but the summary of the epic of the whole of Italy - North, Central and South - for the unity and freedom. And the battle of Gavinana still need to say something: it was a great attempt to Francesco Ferrucci (poetry became Ferruccio) to save the Republic. At the command of 400 soldiers and four thousand horsemen, he came out of Pisa Francesco Ferrucci 31 July 1530, trying to avoid a clash with the imperial troops of Charles V controlled by Maramaldo. His intention was to save the strength to accept battle. Ferrucci had chosen to arrive in Florence through a route that included the mountains of Pistoia, Montale, the Val di Bisenzio and Mugello. In early August, closely followed by the troops of Maramaldo, and those unaware of the movements of the Prince of Orange who had separated from Florence to face it, came to Gavinana Ferrucci. Surrounded and unable to have the artillery, the Florentine commander was forced to play the last desperate card and break through the opposing front. That of August 3 was a battle fought hand to hand in the village and surrounding woods. The Prince of Orange was killed by a first charge. The victory seemed to be favorable to the Florentines when they entered the field Lanzichenecchi that defeated the rearguard Fiorentina Giampaolo Orsini. With a final handful of brave men, including Fanfulla of Lodi (one of the thirteen knights of the Challenge of Barletta), Ferrucci attempted a last defense barricaded in a shed. Covered with wounds, but not yet domo, Francesco Ferrucci was executed in the town square.
It is estimated that during the battle, which came then Risorgimento epic for its patriotic value, almost 10 thousand people are dead: even in recent years, the remains of some of those men have surfaced in testimony to the harshness of the clash. In September nine years ago, the newspaper "Il Sole 24 Ore" Francesco Maria Colombo wrote: "What is required of a Hymn? First, to embody the soul of the nation that chose him. Second, to be easily singable. No coincidence that Italy has the song Novaro and Mameli. The construction between intervals (the distance between notes) reduced the engraved elementary rhythmic quadrature, the iteration of the sentences on different degrees of the scale, make our National Anthem easy to tune and qualify as a memory. And the verses preserve and mysterious aura which is a generic of the strengths of our melodrama: the helmet of Scipio shakes a soul who is not familiar with Scipio, just like the verse "all'egre thresholds ascended" ( in "La Traviata" by Verdi) manages to touch even those who do not have the slightest idea what the "threshold Ergee free of charge" to be. Denying innova di Mameli poetic dignity and musical would be a game too easy and meaningless: it is a page that, for the simple structure el'ardimento to everyone who manages to engage, one can not imagine more effective. " I dedicate this my piece Mr Umberto Bossi, with whom - I think - I share the great idea of \u200b\u200bCattaneo.
Aldo Chiarle
Honorary Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy.
0 comments:
Post a Comment