Enrico Corradini

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Enrico Corradini

Enrico Corradini (born July 20, 1865 in San Miniatello , † December 10, 1931 in Rome ) was an Italian writer, politician, outstanding publicist and ideologist of Italian nationalism. In 1910 he founded the first nationalist party in Italy - Associazione nationalista Italiana (ANI), of which he was chairman until 1914. He was instrumental in the merger of Mussolini's fascist party and the party of Italian nationalists (1922).

biography

Corradini graduated with a degree in literary studies in 1888, wrote some plays and wrote some novels. He devoted his journalistic activity above all to the dissemination of his nationalist ideas. He was co-founder of the magazine L'Idea Nazionale, which he used as a platform to promote Italy's entry into the First World War and an imperialist-nationalist Italian policy. The magazine was largely financed by the Ansaldo industrial group , with which Corradini had established close ties during the war.

After the merger of the nationalist party with the fascists to the Partito Nazionale Fascista in 1922, which he passionately promoted, he was the only leading party member of the ANI who campaigned for a union with the fascists until the end, he became after Mussolini's takeover of power by King Viktor Emmanuel III Appointed Senator in 1923 . As a result, he was a member of various parliamentary commissions and shared less and less the apparent dismantling of the liberal state and the simultaneous building of a totalitarian regime, as became known from the correspondence with his colleague Luigi Federzoni , the President of the Senate, which was only published in the 1960s . When he was appointed Minister of State in 1928, he was practically isolated politically and could no longer set any accents in the politics of the regime. In the following years he lost all influence on government policy.

Political thinking

Corradini instrumentalized the Marxist concept of class by transforming it from the internal relationship to the level of the conflict between nations. He described Italy as a "proletarian nation" that had to fight for a place in the sun against the established European great powers. He pleaded for class collaboration, sharply opposed an autonomous policy of the labor movement and the idea of ​​a fundamental change in the balance of economic power, as demanded in particular by the maximalist majority of the socialist party. For tactical reasons, however, he took over some terms from the conceptual instruments of the left and even formulated the term " national socialism ". At the first nationalist congress in Florence (1910) he developed an ideological charter of nationalism. Here he defined nationalism as a guiding principle that oriented the classes towards a common goal and Italy as a proletarian nation that had to assert itself against the rich bourgeois nations.

Authors' works (selection)

Novels

  • La patria lontana (1910)
  • La guerra lontana (1911)
  • Le Vie Dell'Oceano (1913)
  • Le sette lampade d'oro (1904; 1932)

Plays

  • L'aurea leggenda di Madonna Chigi, commedia in tre atti, Mondadori, Milano – Verona 1930
  • Giulio Cesare, Dramma in V atti, 1902
  • Carlotta Corday. Dramma in tre atti, 1908
  • Le vie dell'Oceano. Dramma in tre atti, 1913

Essays

  • La conquista di Tripoli: Lettere dalla guerra, seguite da un discorso su La morale della guerra letto a Firenze il 10 gennaio 1912, Milano 1912
  • Sopra le vie del Nuovo Impero; Dall'emigrazione di Tunisi alla guerra nell'Egeo; con un epilogo sopra la civilta commerciale, la civiltà guerresca ei valori morali. Milano 1912
  • Scritti e discorsi 1901-1914, a cura di Lucia Strappini, Einaudi, Torino 1980
  • L'unità e la potenza delle nazioni, Firenze, 1922, 1926
  • Diario postbellico (1924)

literature

Web links

Commons : Enrico Corradini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ Franco Gaeta:  Enrico Corradini. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
  2. ↑ Priester, Karin: Italian fascism, economic and ideological foundations . Pahl Rugenstein Verlag, 1972, ISBN 3-7609-0061-5 ( worldcat.org [accessed May 17, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Corradini, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer, politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH San Miniatello
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1931
Place of death Rome