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Brothers of Italy

Brothers of Italy Italy has awakened,
, With Scipio *
She has bound her head.
** Where is Victory?
Let her bow down,
slave of Rome
God has made.

in cohort
Ready to die
called Italy.

We for centuries
downtrodden and derided,
Why not one people,
Because we are divided. Let one
***
flag, one hope
us together
Already the hour has struck.
in cohort
Ready to die
called Italy.

Let us unite and love one another,
the Union, and the love
°
Reveal to peoples The way of the Lord;

swear to free Our native soil
united under God, Who
can defeat us?
in cohort
Ready to die
called Italy.

From the Alps to Sicily
Everywhere Legnano is ° °, Ferruccio

Every man has the heart, has a hand
The children of Italy Are all called
Balilla ° ° °, the sound of each ring

Vespers ^ rang.
in cohort
Ready to die
called Italy.

Son that drunk
swords sold:
Already the Eagle of Austria ^ ^
Has lost his plumes.
The blood of Italy,
the Polish blood
drank, along with the Cossack,
But it burned her heart.
in cohort
Ready to die
Italy called

MAMELI - Novara

Brothers of Italy

We are indebted to the city of Genoa The Song of the Italians, better known as Inno di Mameli. Written in the autumn of 1847 by the then twenty year old student and patriot Goffredo Mameli, music shortly after by another Genoa to Turin, Michele Novaro, Song of the Italians was born in that atmosphere of patriotic fervor that already was a prelude to war against Austria.

The immediacy of the verses and the rush of melody made it the most popular song of unification, not only during the Risorgimento, but for decades to come. Not by chance Giuseppe Verdi, in his Hymn of the Nations in 1862, entrusted to their Song of the Italians - and not the Royal March - the task of symbolizing our country, placing it alongside God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise.

was almost natural, then, that October 12, 1946 Mameli's anthem became the national anthem of the Italian Republic.

The poet Goffredo Mameli

Mannelli was born in Genoa September 5, 1827. Precocious student and poet, feelings and liberal Republicans, adheres to Mazzini in 1847, the year in which it participates actively in the major events of Genoa for reform and made The Song of the Italians. From now on, the life of the poet-soldier will be devoted entirely to the Italian cause: in March 1848, at the head of 300 volunteers, reaches Milan arose, but fought the Austrians sul Mincio with the rank of captain of riflemen.

Salasco After the armistice, he returned to Genoa, and worked with Garibaldi, in November, reached Rome where, 9 February 1849, is proclaimed the Republic. Despite the fever, it is always at the forefront in defending the besieged city by the French: June 3 was wounded in the left leg to be amputated for gangrene supervening.

died of infection on July 6, at seven thirty in the morning, just twenty-two.
He is buried in the Mausoleum Ossuary of Gianicolo.

musician

Michele Novaro was born October 23, 1818 in Genoa, where he studied composition and singing. In 1847 in Turin, with a contract for the second tenor and chorus master of the Teatro Regio and Carignan.

convinced liberal, he offered to the cause of his compositional talent, putting in music dozens of patriotic songs and organizing events for raising funds for companies Garibaldi.

a modest nature, derived no benefit from his most famous hymn, even after unification. Back in Genoa, between 1864 and 1865 he established a People's Choir School, which would dedicate all his efforts.

He died poor, October 21, 1885, and the glimpse of his life was marked by financial difficulties and health problems. At the instigation of his former pupils, was erected a monument in the cemetery in Staglieno, which now rests near the tomb of Mazzini.

as the anthem was born

The best known is the testimony given, although Many years later, Carlo Alberto Barrili, patriot and poet, friend and biographer Mameli. We

in Turin: "There, one evening in mid-September at the home of Lorenzo Valerio, fine patriot and writer of reputation, they made music and politics together. In order to send them along, you could read on the piano several hymns just bloomed each year in the land of Italy, from the Meucci, Rome, set to music by Magazzari - the dawn of the new year already pristine - at the recent Piedmont Bertoldi - Coll'azzurra cockade on the breast - Music by Rossi.

In that half-enters the living room a new host, Ulysses Borzino, the distinguished painter all my Genoese recall. He just came from Genoa, and turning to Novaro, with a note that he had gouged out of his pocket at that point: - To 'he said, I'll send Godfrey. - The Novaro open the package, law, complains. They ask him what all, the crowd of fans around. - A wonderful thing! - Exclaims the master, and reads aloud, and raises enthusiasm to all his audience. - I felt - I said the Master in April of '75 have, by I asked about the Hymn, for I had to hold a commemoration of Mameli - I felt inside me something extraordinary, which I can not define now, with all twenty-seven years. So I cried, I was excited, and I could not sit still.

I set the harpsichord, with the verses of Godfrey on the lectern, and strum, murdered that poor instrument with his fingers twitching, his eyes always innova, putting down melodic phrases, each other, but a thousand miles far from the idea that they could adapt to those words. I got unhappy with me, I stayed a little 'home-Valerio, but always with the verses before the eyes of the mind. I saw that there was no help, I took leave and ran home. There, without even take off my hat, I threw myself at the piano.

I recall the reason strummed home Valerio: I wrote on a sheet of paper, the first that came to his hands in my excitement overthrew the lamp on the harpsichord and, consequently, also on poor paper, this was the original hymn Brothers of Italy. "

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* The culture of Mameli is classic and strong is the call to Romania. It is of Scipio Africanus, the victor of Zama, helmet wearing Italy ready for war.

** The Victoria offers the new Italy and Rome, of which the goddess was a slave to God's will. The country calls to arms: the cohort, in fact, was the tenth part of the Roman legion.

*** A flag and a hope (hope ) common in Italy, in 1848 still divided in seven states .

° Mazzini and Republican, Mameli here translates the political design of the creator of Young Italy and Young Europe. "For God is a Frenchman, that counts as" by God, "by God"

° In this stanza, Mameli goes over seven centuries of struggle against foreign domination. First, the Battle of Legnano, 1176, in which the Lombard League defeated Frederick Barbarossa. Then, the extreme Defence of the Republic of Florence, which was besieged by the imperial army of Charles V in 1530, whose symbol was the captain Francesco Ferrucci. On 2 August, ten days before the capitulation of the city, he defeated the enemy troops in Gavinana, wounded and captured, is finished by Maramaldo Fabrizio, an Italian with foreign money, which directs the words of infamy have become famous, "You kill a dead man

° ° · Although not proven historically, the figure is the symbol of the revolt Balilla People of Genoa against the Austro-Piedmontese coalition. After five days of fighting, 10 December 1746, the city is finally free from the Austrian troops that had occupied for several months and harassed

^ Each ring means " each bell. " On the evening of March 30, 1282, all the bells called the people of Palermo insurrection against the French of Charles of Anjou, the Sicilian Vespers.

^ ^ Austria was in decline (the swords are sold the mercenaries, as weak reeds) and the Mameli strongly emphasized: this stanza, in fact, was originally censored by the Piedmontese government . Together with Russia (the Cossack ), Austria had cruelly dismembered Poland. But the blood of the two peoples oppressed becomes poison, who slays the heart of the black eagle of the Habsburgs.

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