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Il Piccolo Giornale May, 2020 Founded 1994 Il Piccolo Giornale May, 2020 Il Piccolo Giornale is the official newsletter of Club ItaloAmericano of Green Bay, Wi. Website: http://clubitaloamericano.org/ Facebook: Club Italaloamericano of Green Bay Board of Directors Send contributions/comments to: [email protected] Officers: President L. V. Teofilo Vice President Richard Daley Treasurer Vicky Sobeck Secretary Mary Prisco Past President Richard Gollnick Directors Ron Cattelan Dom DelBianco Marlene Feira Janice Galt FYI - CLUB ITALOAMERI- A column from Ostia in On June 30, 1933 25 sea-planes left Italy, under the command of Italo Margene Mar- cantonio CANO CANCELLATIONS Chicago Balbo, Mussolini's air marshal, who Susan Milewski AND POSTPONEMENTS Submitted by Marlene Feira used mass flights as a propaganda Darrell Sobeck tool. The planes left from Orbetello Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Raissa Calza, in her 1959-book about and flew via Amsterdam, Ireland, Judy Sulzmann the following activities will be can- Ostia, writes about a rectangular Iceland, Labrador and Montreal. Lynn Thompson celled for the month of May: square or portico, c. 200 meters out- They arrived in Chicago on July 15, * Pizza night at the Glass Nickle - side Porta Marina, originally over- and were welcomed by a huge Ambassador at looking the sea. It had eight columns crowd. The return flight began on Large Monday, May 4 "in grigio". One is missing, because July 25. The planes landed at Lido di Riccardo Paterni * Conversation Club at Nardi’s it was transported to the US in the Ostia on August 12. Affogato Bar - Saturday, May 9 early 1930's. It was a gift from Italy Editor * Live at the Metropolitan Opera at to the city of Chicago in remem- Paul Marino Bay Park Cinema- Saturday, May 9 - brance of the first transatlantic the opera “Maria Stuarda” by Doni- crossing of the Italian airforce. Sev- zetti was scheduled to be shown eral members of the IGO gathered more information about this event. The arrival of Balbo in Lido di Ostia, Here is what they found. August 12, 1933 The column formed part of the so-called named Balbo Drive (until that time called DELLA SQUADRA ATLANTICA GUIDATA "prospetto a mare" outside Porta Marina, 7th St.). DA BALBO in front of the Edificio con Opus Sectile. In CHE CON ROMANO ARDIMENTO the periodical "Le vie d'Italia - rivista TRASVOLO L'OCEANO mensile del Touring club Italiano" (anno XXXIX, n. 9, settembre 1933, anno XI era NELL' ANNO XI fascista, is a photo of the column in its DEL LITTORIO original setting. The caption says "Il segno THIS COLUMN dell'amicizia fra l'Italia e la repubblica stellata", and below the photo can be TWENTY CENTURIES OLD read: "La colonna degli scavi di Ostia che ERECTED ON THE SHORES OF OSTIA il Duce ha offerto alla cittˆ di Chicago e che verrˆ inalzata sulla riva del Michigan, PORT OF IMPERIAL ROME a ricordo della trasvolata atlantica del TO SAFEGUARD THE FORTUNES AND VIC- decennale". Later Guglielmo Marconi, TORIES president of the "comitato Italiano" in Chicago, wrote a letter to Calza, thanking OF THE ROMAN TRIREMES him for his collaboration in selecting the FASCIST ITALY BY COMMAND OF BENITO column. The unveiling of the column MUSSOLINI The column was set up on a travertine PRESENTS TO CHICAGO base, with an inscription in Italian, describ- EXALTATION SYMBOL MEMORIAL ing it as a gift to Chicago from the people OF THE ATLANTIC SQUADRON LED BY "dell'Italia fascista". BALBO THAT WITH ROMAN DARING FLEW ACROSS THE OCEAN IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF THE FASCIST ERA The photograph from "Le vie d'Italia" The column must have reached the US by boat. It was erected during the 1933-1934 QUESTA COLONNA World Exhibition, called "A Century of Progress". It was unveiled in front of the DI VENTI SECOLI ANTICA Italian pavillion, in 1934, after Balbo had ERETTA SUL LIDO DI OSTIA left. The column still stands, on its original PORTO DI ROMA IMPERIALE site, but today in meaningless isolation. It Note the fasces on either side of the in- is at a distance of a few meters from the A VIGILARE LE FORTUNE E LE VITTORIE scription. The inscription itself is a won- shore of Lake Michigan in an area that is DELLE TIREMI ROMANE derful example of Mussolini's attempts to relatively unfrequented. It can be found in use ancient Rome as an impressive fore- Burnham Park, at 1600 South Lake Shore L'ITALIA FASCISTA SUSPICE BENITO MUS- runner of his own regime. Here we get Drive, just east of Soldier Field. It is gen- SOLINI the impression that the Atlantic Ocean erally called the "Balbo Monument". A DONA A CHICAGO has become part of the mare nostrum. It midsized highway at a distance of some is interesting that the monument was not ESALTAZIONE SIMBOLO RICORDO 600 meters from the column was in 1934 removed during World War II. The Following article submitted by He is dapper, beaming with the confi- pictures of Rosalia made during van dence of youth; he does not have the tem- Dyck’s days in quarantine. It was, in fact, Chris Wagner perament for sheltering in place. It’s one of the Met’s very first acquisitions, CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK springtime, the year is 1624, and the 25- bought a year after the museum’s found- year-old Anthony van Dyck is sailing ing in 1870. You ought to have seen van The Saint Who Stopped an south, to Sicily, where he has been invited Dyck’s plague picture in the first gallery of Epidemic Is on Lockdown at to paint the island’s Spanish viceroy. the exhibition “Making the Met: 1870- 2020,” the centerpiece of the museum’s Van Dyck is establishing his international the Met 150th birthday celebrations, which was career as a portraitist to the rich and fa- scheduled to open. Now, of course, Rosa- Quarantined in Sicily, van Dyck painted a mous, and he has already had some suc- lia is quarantined herself as the corona- daughter of Palermo who saved the city cess in Genoa, London and his virus pandemic intensifies. The Met does from an outbreak. Our critic went to see hometown, Antwerp. Now, in Palermo, not expect to reopen before July. her in an empty museum. he feels on the cusp of a breakthrough. He gets the portrait done that spring, but then: disaster. On May 7, 1624, Palermo reports the first cases of a plague that will soon kill more than 10,000, some 10 percent of the city’s population. On June 25, the viceroy whom van Dyck painted declares a state of emergency; five weeks later, he’s dead. Quarantined in a foreign city, the young Fleming watches in horror as the port closes, the city gates slam The empty lobby of the Met on March shut, the hospital overflows, the afflicted 18th, without a public, without its fresh groan in the street. flowers .Credit...Vincent Tullo for The New York Times As the emergency wears on, a gang of Franciscans starts digging up the earth on I had the chance to enter the museum last a hill facing the harbor. In a cave they un- week, ascending through the service en- earth a pile of bones, which, the archbish- trance to meet Max Hollein, the Met’s op’s commission determines, belongs to director, and Quincy Houghton, its depu- Saint Rosalia, a noblewoman of centuries ty director for exhibitions. It was a joyless past. Rosalia’s relics are paraded through visit. In the Great Hall, the large urns sit the city as the epidemic abates, and the bereft of their usual immense sprays of grateful citizens worship her as the san- fresh flowers. A skeleton crew of guards tuzza, the “little saint,” who saved the was stationed at tables, accompanied by city. industrial-size jugs of hand sanitizer. The “Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague- lights in many galleries were off, the gates stricken of Palermo,” by Anthony van Rosalia is proclaimed, and remains today, around the gift shop drawn. Sometimes Dyck, made during the artist’s time in the patron saint of Palermo. Van Dyck - being in an empty museum gives me a quarantine, is itself quarantined, in its meeting the new demand, and not a little thrill, but this locked-down Met, without a assigned place for “Making the Met.” The grateful himself - takes a half-finished self- public, left me miserable. commemoration of the museum’s 150th portrait, slathers it with primer and paints birthday, was due to open at the end of the new protectress, floating gloriously Rosalia, though, is already in her assigned March. over the illness-ravaged port town. spot for “Making the Met,” which had been nearly installed before work halted By Jason Farago “Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague- in mid-March. She seems, at first glance, Published March 26, 2020 Updated stricken of Palermo,” painted almost 400 to be ascending to heaven with the help of March 28, 2020 years ago and now in the Metropolitan nearly a dozen cherubim, and a shaft of Museum of Art, is one of five surviving light beams onto her ruddy face through dark clouds at the top of the painting. I legrino, the hill where her relics were spent a while examining its light coloring, found. its Titianesque brushwork; this is one of The artist gave one of the putti bearing the Flemish artist’s most Italian-looking her forward a wreath of pink and white paintings. roses, a reference to her name. Another, It is a deceptive painting. Look fast and at bottom left, is pawing a human skull: you might easily confuse this for an As- the skull of Rosalia herself, which was sumption of the Virgin, and indeed the paraded through the quarantined city al- saint was incorrectly identified when the most as soon as she came out of the Met bought the picture during its first ground.
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