Dante Bartolini

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Dante Bartolini (born March 17, 1909 in Castiglione di Arrone - April 13, 1979 in Terni ) was an Italian communist activist, partisan and songwriter.

Life

The steel worker Bartolini worked underground during the Italian fascism for the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), which had been banned since 1926 , and secretly distributed leaflets in the steelworks in Terni.

After the armistice of Cassibile and the occupation of Italy by German troops on September 8, 1943, he joined the Resistance . Under the battle name of Tito , he belonged to several partisan groups in Umbria , from which the Gramsci partisan brigade, consisting mainly of workers, later emerged. In the spring of 1944 he was involved in several actions against Republican-Italian units in the province of Chieti . In April 1944, after a raid , he took over the leadership of the Paolo Calcagnetti partisan battalion .

After the war he resumed his work in the Terni steelworks. After the assassination attempt on Palmiro Togliatti on July 14, 1948, Bartolini, who was still active in the PCI, disarmed the security department in the steel mill with a few others. In the early 1950s he took part in strike actions, whereupon he lost his job in the course of a wave of layoffs in 1952.

As Gruppo della La Valnerina he appeared in Umbria from 1973 in alternating line-ups with Fiore Bartolini, Narciso De Santis, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Amerigo Matteucci, Firpo Matteucci, Luigi Matteucci, Gallerana Orsini, Giuseppe Perelli, Pompilio Pileri, Lucia Pileri and Trento Pitotti . The activities are recorded in the writings of Alessandro Portelli and Valentino Peparelli.

Songs

His songs about the Resistancea are counted among the most beautiful of their kind.

literature

  • Valentino Paparelli, Sandro Portelli: La Valnerina ternana: Un'esperienza di ricerca-intervento . Squilibri, Rome 2011 ISBN 978-88-89009-40-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Yuri Capoccia: Bartolini Dante (Tito). In: antifascismoumbro.it. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ^ Dante Bartolini (81). In: archiviosonoro.org. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Alessandro Portelli: Storia orale, dialogo e generi narrativi . In: Paolo Favilli (ed.). Il letterato e lo storico. La letteratura creativa come storia . Franco Angeli, Milan 2013, ISBN 978-88-204-4134-0 p. 88
  4. ↑ Dante Bartolini. In: antiwarsongs.org. Retrieved May 7, 2020 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Alessandro Portelli: La più bella canzone "sulla" resistance. In: ilmanifesto.it. April 20, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Bartolini, Dante
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian communist activist, partisan and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Castiglione di Arrone
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1979
Place of death Terni