Yes, long live Italy and who helped to make united ! Viva who overcame, though pursuing different ideals, the dream of a united people from the Alps to Sicily, who live, mature and young, immolated for the unit.
sound strange today as these words of patriotism, and perhaps the ears of anyone will be too sickly. But de profundis , I do not care.
Here I am here to celebrate in my own way the unification of Italy, bringing together in a post (which I'll update all the time though) songs, poems, experiences, pictures, diaries, letters ... as I suggest the words UNITA 'D'ITALY .. . In short, a post to the crossing of my (perhaps your) imagination.
And you can not start with ' song ... written by a young Goffredo Mameli, in the days of the first war of independence text made read one night at Michele Novaro that in three hours, Pina, and became the music ... and then be sung by our liberal during the 5 days of Milan .
Much has been said and streets of the hymn, sometimes in a negative way (his rhetoric, his pace march ...), but this is obviously a lack of ability of contextualization: what would have chosen these detractors to encourage and push the revolt? What to resurrect the "old virtues" of a people that only then he felt the son of the same w / Father? 's great the national anthem, as big as some other songs of the Renaissance, but imbued with a positive message of confidence in the story, an emotional and other non-violent struggle songs and hymns, including European to have.
'nuff said.
Here the text explanation
and video:
Other song of the Risorgimento, deservedly famous is The tricolor flag.
Composed by an anonymous author, is the quarantottesco song par excellence, and manifest portrait of a revolutionary generation he saw his hopes drown in the blood. Sung throughout the Risorgimento, the song and then entered in the permanent repertoire of the Alpine songs
Video
Here then the 'Hymn to Garibaldi famous patriotic song of the Italian Risorgimento.
Author of the text was, at the request of Garibaldi himself, the poet Louis Mercantini, also known for bass Sapri, poignant evocation of romantic shipment of Carlo Pisacane. Performed for the first time in 1858 , so close to what will be the "liberation of the south"
E could not miss the Nabucco, the chorus of Va 'pensiero who sings the heartbreaking sacrifice of the Jewish slaves in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar: in 1800 in many comparisons Italians slaves to the Jews fleeing Egypt and slaves in Babylon. The chorus of Verdi speaks for itself: in the participation numerous singing, as in melancholic and evocative, the music is simple but intense secrecy of this choir, from the evidence already in the theater, was sung by tailors and set off the stage ....
For those interested, here is the text of Psalm (136) 137 that Verdi was inspired and poetry of twentieth-century poet Quasimodo , who was inspired to turn to Nabucco, to describe the situation in World War II delll'Italia In ... an excursus centuries ...
the next guys, with the upgrade of the post.
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