Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical
literary café in
Piazza della Repubblica,
Florence
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When opened in 1896, the cafè was actually called "Fratelli Reininghaus". It was named "Giubbe Rosse" (Red jackets or coats) in 1910, after the red jackets which waiters used to wear every day.
The restaurant-café has a long-standing reputation as the resort of literati and intellectuals. Alberto Viviani defined the Giubbe Rosse as "" ("a forge of dreams and passions"). The Giubbe Rosse was the place where the
Futurist
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movement blossomed, struggled and expanded; it played a very important role in the history of Italian culture as a workshop of ideas, projects, and passions. "We want to celebrate love of danger, of constant energy, and courage. We want to encourage going in aggressive new directions, feverish sleeplessness, running, deathly leaps, slaps and blows".
Poets such as
Ardengo Soffici,
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (9 January 18818 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and Italian philosophy, philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he ...
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Giuseppe Prezzolini and many others met and wrote in this literary café an important venue of Italian literature in the beginning of the 20th century.
Important magazines such as ''
Solaria'' and ''
Lacerba''
originated here from the writers who frequented the café.
In 2019 on proposal of
Italian Ministry of Culture this historical literary café has been proclaimed has a cultural asset.
This cozy literary café, founded by two Germans, the Reininghaus brothers, in 1896, has been closed from 2019 till 2024 for financial problems.
In the end of June 2024 ''Il Caffé Letterario Giubbe Rosse'' opened again its activities.
Some of the most recent exhibitions and presentations
* In 2012 literary meeting with Giorgina poet Busca Gernetti entitled "Classicità e Modernità nella poesia di Giorgina Busca Gernetti". Introduction by Onorevole Marco Cellai. critical relationships of prof. Enrico Nistri, Prof. Anna Maria Giglio, artist Lilly Brogi and the poet Giancarlo Bianchi.
* In 2015 literary meeting the great classical and contemporary poetry interpreted by actor Franco Costantini organized by La Pergola Arte. Franco Costantini before he played Dante Alighieri musical accompaniment on guitar by Raimondo Raimondi spacing out his performance with a dissertation on of endecasillabo value and finally recited the lyrics of Lilly Brogi, Menotti Galeotti,
Anna Balsamo,
Alfredo Vernacotola, Giancarlo Bianchi, Ornella Fiorentini.
* In 2016 Moran presented the novel by Matilde Calamai . Speakers Giulio Greco and Lilly Brogi was present the doctor Aldo Giovanelli founder of Pengo Life Project and Italian Ambassador of the
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust who spoke about the situation of African wildlife.
Gallery
Image:Le giubbe rosse 02.JPG, Giubbe rosse
Image:Caffé giubbe rosse.JPG, Exterior
Image:Caffé giubbe rosse interno.JPG, Interior
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