Caffè Le Giubbe Rosse
Caffè Le Giubbe Rosse is a café on Piazza della Repubblica (13-14r), Florence . The name comes from the red jackets that the waiters still wear today, based on the Viennese model. Because the Florentines found it difficult to correctly pronounce the name of the German founders (Reininghaus), they simply agreed to meet "with the red jackets ( giubbe rosse )". The name became common and eventually became the official name of the café. Another interpretation sees it as an allusion to the camicie rosse , the red shirts of Garibaldi's armed forces during the Risorgimentos . Since then, the red color of clothes has been considered a kind of badge of honor for liberal Italians.
history
The café has a longstanding reputation as a meeting place for writers and intellectuals. For Alberto Viviani, the Giubbe Rosse was a " fucina di sogni e di passioni " (a forge of dreams and passions). The café was the place where futurism blossomed, struggled and expanded, a breeding ground for ideas, projects and passions: "We want to sing about the love of danger, the habit of energy and rash ... We want the aggressive movement that feverish insomnia, the rapid pace, the death leap, the slap in the face, the punch ... We want to destroy museums, libraries, academies of all kinds, and fight against morality ... From Italy we send this our manifesto of revolutionary and inflammable violence out into the world, with which we found futurism today; for we want to free this country from its foul-smelling ulcer of professors, archaeologists, cicerones and antique dealers. "
Poets like Ardengo Soffici , Giovanni Papini , Eugenio Montale , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Giuseppe Prezzolini and many others met and wrote in this literary café, an important meeting place for Italian literature at the beginning of the 20th century.
Newspapers like Solaria and Lacerba are from the writers who visited the café. Giubbe Rosse was founded in early 1900 by two Germans, the Reininghaus brothers, and is now owned by Fiorenzo Smalzi , who publishes Italian poetry.
Giubbe rosse
Piazza della Repubblica
inner space
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
