Enrico Corradini
Enrico Corradini | |
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Personal details | |
Born | near Montelupo Fiorentino | 20 July 1865
Died | 10 December 1931 Rome | (aged 66)
Political party | Italian Nationalist Association (1910–1923) National Fascist Party (1923–1931) |
Occupation | Novelist, essayist, journalist, and nationalist political figure |
Enrico Corradini (20 July 1865 – 10 December 1931) was an Italian novelist, essayist, journalist and nationalist political figure.[1][2]
Biography
Corradini was born near Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany.
A follower of
L'Idea Nazionale was turned into a daily with financing from natural advocates of militarism - military men and weapon manufacturers. Corradini and his paper created a generic nationalist theory after adopting Populism and Corporatism[citation needed], while advocating Italy's entry into World War I - initially on the side of the Triple Alliance (the Central Powers, to which Italy had committed itself), then on that of the Triple Entente (the Allies - which promised to grant Italy all its territorial demands). The group also focused on a violent press campaign against Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti and other supporters of neutrality.
Corradini developed the concept of Proletarian Nationalism in 1919:
We must start by recognizing the fact that there are proletarian nations as well as proletarian classes; that is to say, there are nations whose living conditions are subject... to the way of life of other nations, just as classes are. Once this is realized, nationalism must insist firmly on this truth: Italy is, materially and morally, a proletarian nation." (Report to the First Nationalist Congress, Florence, 3 December 1919)
After the war, ANI was led by Corradini into a merger with the
As a novelist, Corradini enjoyed success with his La patria lontana ("The Distant Fatherland"; 1910) and La guerra lontana ("The Distant War"; 1911).
He died in Rome.
Works
- Italian Nationalism (1914) -- Translated into English from Italian (Il nazionalismo italiano). Sunny Lou Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-95539-242-6, 2023)
- Julius Caesar: A Play in Five Acts (1929)
- Le Vie dell'Oceano (1913)[4]
Notes
- ^ Cunsolo, Ronald S. "Enrico Corradini and the Italian Version of Proletarian Nationalism." Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 12 (1985): 47-63.
- ^ Gregor, 1999.
- ^ "La Lupa. Settimanale diretto da Paolo Orano". Fondazione Modigliani. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea, Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1913), entry by CA Blanche, page 222.
Further reading
- Cunsolo, Ronald S. "Enrico Corradini and the Italian Version of Proletarian Nationalism." Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 12 (1985): 47–63.
- ISBN 1-56000-422-3), pp. 30–33
- Marsella, M. "Enrico Corradini's Italian Nationalism: The 'Right Wing' of the Fascist Synthesis" Journal of Political Ideologies, Volume 9, Number 2, June 2004, pp. 203–224
- Pagano, Tullio. "From Diaspora to Empire: Enrico Corradini's Nationalist Novels." MLN, Volume 119, Number 1, January 2004 (Italian Issue), pp. 67–83