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Bruno Fanciullacci
Bruno Fanciullacci (; 13 November 1919 – 17 July 1944) was an Italian Italian Resistance Movement, Partisan during World War II. During the Italian Civil War, he co-founded the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP), a Communism, Communist partisan organization. He was involved in the assassination of the "Philosopher of Fascism" Giovanni Gentile in April 1944. Early life and political activities Bruno Fanciullacci was born in the village of Pieve a Nievole in rural Tuscany in 1919 to Raffaello and Rosa Michelini. The family moved to Florence in 1932 after his father was left unemployed due to his anti-fascist leanings. The young Fanciullacci worked as a milkman and as an elevator boy at the Grand Hotel Cavour. He established contact with clandestine anti-fascist networks at age 16, getting arrested in 1938 and being sentenced to 7 years in prison for "subversive activities" including the distribution of left-wing pamphlets and posters. Upon the fall of Fascism in July 1943, Fanci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieve A Nievole
Pieve a Nievole is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about southwest of Pistoia. Pieve a Nievole borders the following municipalities: Monsummano Terme, Montecatini-Terme, Ponte Buggianese, Serravalle Pistoiese Serravalle Pistoiese is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about southwest of Pistoia. History The original settlement consisted of two cones, those of S .... References External links Official website Cities and towns in Tuscany {{Pistoia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martyrs Of Campo Di Marte
The Martyrs of Campo di Marte () were five men executed in the Campo di Marte borough of Florence by the forces of the Fascist Italian Social Republic (RSI) for refusing to be drafted into the military, and for suspicion of Partisan activity. Context After a Partisan attack on the town of Vicchio during which several Fascists were killed on 6 March 1944, the forces of RSI general Enrico Adami Rossi combed the town for Partisan collaborators, discovering in the process five young men who had dodged the military draft imposed by the RSI. They were swiftly condemned to death by the extraordinary military tribunal established the previous month by Rossi, and executed by firing squad ten days later on 22 March. Several days later on 30 March, the Italian Fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile received a death threat letter which read: Gentile was assassinated by the communist Gruppi di Azione Patriottica shortly afterwards on 15 April. List of victims The five men are: * Antonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Partisans
The Italian resistance movement (the ''Resistenza italiana'' and ''la Resistenza'') is an umbrella term for the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945. As an anti-fascist movement and organisation, ''La Resistenza'' opposed Nazi Germany, as well as Nazi Germany's Italian puppet state regime, the Italian Social Republic, which was created by the Germans following the Nazi German invasion and military occupation of Italy by the '' Wehrmacht'' and the '' Waffen-SS'' from September 1943 until April 1945 (though general underground Italian resistance and resistance groups to the Fascist Italian government began even prior to World War II). In Nazi-occupied Italy, the Italian anti-fascist resistance fighters, known as the ''partigiani'' ( partisans), fought a ''guerra di liberazione nazionale'', or a war for national liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Marxists
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Garibaldi Brigade
The ''Brigate Garibaldi'' or Garibaldi Brigades were partisan units aligned with the Italian Communist Party active in the armed resistance against both German and Italian fascist forces during World War II. The Brigades were mostly made up of communists, but also included members of other parties of the National Liberation Committee (NLC), in particular the Italian Socialist Party. Led by Luigi Longo and Pietro Secchia, they were the largest of the partisan groups and suffered the highest number of losses. Members wore a red handkerchief around the neck with red stars on their hats. History Operative design On 20 September 1943 in Milano, the military committee of PCI was formed and in October it became in the general command of the (Garibaldi Assault Brigades) under the leadership of Longo and Secchia. This early management structure, initially equipped with poor means, began immediately its activity in order to overcome every "wait and see" attitudes and constantly p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Tasso Massacre
The Piazza Tasso massacre (Italian: ''Eccidio in Piazza Tasso'') was a massacre that occurred on July 17, 1944, at Piazza Tasso in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. History On the above named date, Italian militias of the fascist Italian Social Republic The Italian Social Republic ( it, Repubblica Sociale Italiana, ; RSI), known as the National Republican State of Italy ( it, Stato Nazionale Repubblicano d'Italia, SNRI) prior to December 1943 but more popularly known as the Republic of Salò ... allied with the German army, arrived to the piazza Tasso and opened fire, killing five persons. The goals of the shooting are still unclear; one hypothesis is that it was to intimidate the inhabitants of the quartiere di San Frediano, which included many opponents of the regime. In the days that followed, some 17 persons suspected of being partisans were murdered at Cascine on July 23. On a wall facing the piazza, a marble plaque was placed the year after the massacre, a translation reads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Santa Croce
Piazza Santa Croce is one of the main plazas or squares located in the central neighbourhood of Florence, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located near Piazza della Signoria and the National Central Library, and takes its name from the Basilica of Santa Croce that overlooks the square. Main buildings Basilica of Santa Croce The most notable features of the basilica are its sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils, and its tombs and cenotaphs. It is the burial place of many illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Enrico Fermi, Galileo, Ugo Foscolo, Guglielmo Marconi, Luigi Cherubini, Leon Battista Alberti, Vittorio Alfieri, Gioacchino Rossini, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Lorenzo Bartolini, Pier Antonio Micheli, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Giovanni Gentile, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories (''Tempio dell'Itale Glorie''). Palazzo Cocchi-Serristori On the opposite side to the Basilica of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosca Bucarelli
Tosca Bucarelli Martini (; 4 October 1922 – 10 January 2000) was an Italian Italian Resistance Movement, Partisan and politician from Florence. During the Italian Civil War, she joined the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP), a Communist Partisan organization resisting Benito Mussolini, Mussolini's Fascist Italian Social Republic. She later served as City Councillor for Florence from 1975 to 1980. Partisan activity On 8 February 1944, Bucarelli and her GAP comrade Antonio Ignesti attempted to bomb the Bar Paskowski, frequented by Republican Fascist Party, Fascist Party members and German-occupied Europe, Nazi soldiers. However, the fuse malfunctioned, and their cover was blown. Ingesti managed to escape, but Bucarelli was captured and subjected to torture by Mario Carità's forces. She was later taken to the Villa Triste, and later to the Santa Verdiana monastery where other anti-fascists were being held. On 9 July 1944, she was rescued alongside 16 others from Santa Verdiana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Amadeo Bordiga, Antonio Gramsci, and Nicola Bombacci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played a major role in the Italian resistance movement. It changed its name in 1943 to PCI and became the second largest political party of Italy after World War II, attracting the support of about a third of the vote share during the 1970s. At the time, it was the largest communist party in the West, with peak support reaching 2.3 million members, in 1947, and peak share being 34.4% of the vote (12.6 million votes) in the 1976 general election. The PCI transitioned from doctrinaire Marxism–Leninism to democratic socialism by the 1970s or the 1980s and adhered to the Eurocommunist trend. In 1991, it was dissolved and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor. History Foundation ''la Repubblica'' was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, previously director of the weekly magazine '' L'Espresso''. The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999. Early years The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottone Rosai
Ottone Rosai (28 April 1895 – 13 May 1957) was an Italian painter born in Florence. Biography Rosai graduated from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, a period in which he was closely associated with the Lacerba group of Florentine Futurists and especially Ardengo Soffici, with whom he held a joint exhibition at the Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, in 1914. Having returned to Florence after World War I, he adapted to the climate of the '' return to order'' and devoted himself to the study of early Italian painters. He held his first solo show at Palazzo Capponi in 1920, began contributing to the magazine ''Il Selvaggio'' in 1926, and took part in the Seconda Mostra del Novecento Italiano in Milan in 1929. Edoardo Persico organised a solo show of his work at the Galleria del Milione in 1930 and his participation in the Venice Biennale began by invitation with the 18th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città di Venezia in 1932. He obtained a teaching post at the Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
