Italian irredentism in Switzerland
Italian irredentism in Switzerland was a political movement that promoted the unification to
History
The current
Following the rise to power of
In 1934 the Ticino fascists held the "March on Bellinzona", similar to the March on Rome. However, it was successfully contrasted by socialist organizations, like "Liberi e Svizzeri" of Guglielmo Canevascini, promoted even by the Swiss government.[5]
Successively, in the 1935 elections the fascists obtained just 2% of the votes and since then their movement faded away to less than 100 members.[6]
Before World War II the Italian irredentism in Switzerland was reduced to have followers mainly between the descendants of Italians emigrated to Ticino at the end of the 19th century, but was ruled and promoted by a small group of ticino intellectuals with their active newspapers and propaganda.
The most important of these intellectuals was Teresina Bontempi, who created the magazine L'Adula. She denounced in her writings, together with Rosetta Colombi, the
The most renowned fascist born in Canton Ticino was Aurelio Garobbio, who tried to imitate Gabriele D'Annunzio with his organization called Giovani Ticinesi.[9] After 1935 Garobbio was the main responsible of the Italian irredentism in Switzerland and was with Mussolini until his death in spring 1945, when he tried to organize a last fascist area of defense in Valtellina next to Ticino.[10]
After World War II, the Italian irridentism movement in Switzerland ceased, replaced by organisations advocating a defense of the Italian language and culture within the Swiss Confederation.
See also
- Italia irredenta
- Italian immigration to Switzerland
- Swiss Italians
- Teresina Bontempi
Notes
- ^ "In viaggio con la zia - Firenze del 04/06/2016" (in Italian). Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ Fra Roma e Berna, di Mauro Cerutti (in Italian) Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Map of "Catena mediana delle Alpi" as possible northern Italian border in Switzerland
- ^ rossi, Contechnet.it massimo. "Italia-Svizzera: la storia dal 1861 al 2011". Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ M. Cerutti, Fra Roma e Berna. La Svizzera italiana nel ventennio fascista, p. 465.
- ISBN 9782827108565. Retrieved 12 January 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Il sogno irredentista del Ticino (in Italian)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ^ Ilse Shneiderfranken.Le industrie del Canton Ticino. Belinzona, 1937
- ^ Garobbio, Aurelio. Gabriele D'Annunzio e i «Giovani Ticinesi»: le vicende de «L'Adula» p. 45
- ISBN 9788885387942. Retrieved 12 January 2017 – via Google Books.
Bibliography
- Cerutti, Mauro. Fra Roma e Berna. La Svizzera nel ventennio fascista. Edizioni Franco Angeli. Milano, 1986.
- Crespi, Ferdinando. Ticino irredento. La frontiera contesa. Dalla battaglia culturale dell'"Adula" ai piani d'invasione. Edizioni Franco Angeli. Milano, 2004.
- Dosi, Davide. ll cattolicesimo ticinese e i fascismi: la Chiesa e il partito conservatore ticinese nel periodo tra le due guerre mondiali. Editore Saint-Paul. Lugano, 1999 ISBN 2827108569
- Garobbio, Aurelio. Gabriele D'Annunzio e i «Giovani Ticinesi»: le vicende de «L'Adula», Editore Centro Studi Atesini. Trento, 1988.
- Lurati, Ottavio. Dialetto e italiano regionale nella Svizzera italiana. Lugano, 1976.
- Schneiderfranken, Ilse. Le industrie del Canton Ticino. Bellinzona, 1937.
- sulle quattro valli italofone (Mesolcina, Calanca, di Poschiavo, Bregaglia) e su Bivio, Vignoli, Giulio, I territori italofoni non appartenenti alla Repubblica Italiana agraristica. Giuffrè, Milano, 1995.