Marco Angeli di Sartena (1905-1985) was a politician from Corsica, who wrote in the famous

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"A Muvra". He was an active

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, supporting the union of Corsica to

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He was born in Sartena, from a noble Corsican family with roots in the

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. After moving to Italy because of his irredentism ideals, he graduated in

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at the

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. The irredentist Marco Angeli di Sartèna wrote in 1924 the first book in " Corso" (titled ''Terra còrsa'') and many lyrics in this dialect/language (titled ''Malincunie'') in Ajaccio. He even created and wrote the newspaper «Gioventù» of the "Partito Corso d'azione", partially in

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and Corsican. In 1930 Marco Angeli created the "Gruppi d'Azione Corsa", that did a huge propaganda in Italy and Corsica against

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's control of the island: already in 1931 it had more than one thousand members.Marco Angeli and the "Gruppi d'Azione Corsa" in Pisa
/ref> He had friendship with Pietro Rocca and influenced him to become an irredentist. In spring 1943 Angeli returned with

Petru Giovacchini Petru Giovacchini (french: Pierre Giovacchini, it, Pietro Giovacchini; 1 February 1910 – 29 September 1955) was a Corsican activist, born in Canale-di-Verde to an old family of the Corsican nobility with deep-rooted pro-Italian feelings. Gio ...

to his Corsica -occupied by Italian troops in November 1942- in order to try to promote an administrative union of the island to the Kingdom of Italy (like Dalmatia): but he was unsuccessful because of

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opposition. After the Italian defeat in

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Angeli was condemned to death by a French tribunal, but he escaped the punishment by remaining in Italy for the rest of his life.

Bibliography

* Rainero, R.H. ''Mussolini e Pétain. Storia dei rapporti tra l’Italia e la Francia di Vichy''. Ussme Ed. Roma, 1990

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Angeli Di Sartena, Marco People from Corse-du-Sud 1905 births 1985 deaths

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