Janez Janša - Il porto dell’amore | International acknowledgement of Fiume

International acknowledgement of Fiume

During the months that the Fiume experiment lasted, almost all leftwing leaders (socialists, trade unionists, anarchists) in and internationally drew comparisons with it, and the stances and opinions expressed often revealed openness rather than condemnation. Appreciation for the openings present in the Charter of Carnaro were expressed, for example, by the Hungarian Communist Miklós Sisa, the former people’s commissary in the government of Béla Kun.1

The Dada-Telegram

“Please phone the Club Dada, Berlin, if the allies protest. Conquest a great Dadaist action, and will employ all means to ensure its recognition. The Dadaist world atlas Dadaco already recognizes Fiume as an Italian city.”2

Huelsenbeck. Baader. Grosz.

Russia was the only state that recognized the existence of Fiume. Indeed some of the (military) organs of the government looked more like soviet councils than the Italian constitutional monarchy. As Lenin said to the European Communist emissaries in Moscow: “There is only one man in Italy capable of starting a revolution. D’Annunzio”.3

“The D’Annunzian movement is perfectly and profoundly revolutionary, because D’Annunzio is a revolutionary. Lenin even said so at the Moscow Congress”.4

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

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The New York Times New York, 18 September 1920.

Gabriele D’Annunzio and Guglielmo Marconi sending a wireless plea, Fiume, September 1920.

Ricciotto Canudo (1879 – 1923) The New York Times New York, 27 September 1920. Ricciotto Canudo was an Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in . In his manifesto The Birth of the Sixth Art, published as early as 1911, he argued that the cinema synthesized the spatial arts (architecture, and ) with the temporal arts (music and dance). He later added poetry in his 1923 better-known manifesto Reflections on the Seventh Art. He is therefore considered to be the very first theoretician of cinema. He saw cinema as “plastic art in motion”. Canudo came to Fiume in February 1920 as president of the Fédération des Gabriele D’Annunzio and Ricciotto Canudo in volontaires étrangers and on 7 March Fiume, March 1920. he organized a propagandistic flypast, dropping leaflets expressing his committee’s support for the enterprise over 5 Ricciotto Canudo portrayed by Picasso, 1919. the city and towns.

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