17-550: Emilio Lussu ( Armungia , 4 December 1890 – 5 March 1975) was a Sardinian and Italian writer, anti-fascist intellectual, military officer, partisan , and politician. He is also the author of the novel One Year on the High Plateau . Lussu was elected multiple times to Parliament, serving as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy for the constituency of Cagliari and twice as a minister. He founded
34-725: A complementary officer of the Sassari Infantry Brigade in 1916 he was stationed on the Asiago Plateau . The brigade had arrived on the plateau in May 1916 to help in the Italian effort to stop the Austrian Spring offensive . In the month of June 1916 the brigade conquered Monte Fior , Monte Castelgomberto , Monte Spil , Monte Miela and Monte Zebio . After the war Lussu published the novel " One Year on
51-709: A formal position in 1921, opposing the increasing power of the Fascist movement. Lussu was elected to the Italian parliament in 1921 and, in 1924 was among the Aventine secessionists who withdrew from the Italian Parliament after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti . Lussu's anti-Fascist position was, at the time, one of the most radical in Italy. Lussu was physically attacked and injured by unknown aggressors several times. In 1926, during one of these attacks (notably,
68-547: The Italian Fascist Regime . While in exile came to be known as "Mister Mills". In 1938 Lussu's novel " One Year on the High Plateau " ( Un anno sull'altipiano ), was published in Paris. This thinly fictional account tells of the lives of soldiers during World War I and the trench warfare they encountered. One Year on the High Plateau underlines, with chill rationalism, how the irrationalities of warfare affected
85-537: The Province of South Sardinia in the Italian region Sardinia , located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Cagliari . Armungia borders the following municipalities: Ballao , San Nicolò Gerrei , Villaputzu , Villasalto . This Sardinia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ernesto Rossi (politician) Ernesto Rossi (25 August 1897 – 9 February 1967)
102-719: The Sardinian Action Party and co-founded the Justice and Freedom movement. As an anti-fascist, he was assaulted, wounded, and sent to confinement to Lipari in the Aeolian Islands by the Italian fascist regime as a direct decision of Benito Mussolini . After escaping, with Carlo Rosselli and Fausto Nitti, he spent about fourteen years as a refugee abroad. He served as an officer in World War I, where he received multiple decorations, and participated in
119-678: The Spanish Civil War as a political leader and in the Italian Resistance. Lussu was born in Armungia , province of Cagliari ( Sardinia ) and graduated with a degree in law in 1914. Lussu married Joyce Salvadori , a notable poet, and member of the noble Paleotti family of the Marche , who were counts of Fermo . Prior to the entry of Italy into World War I , Lussu joined the army and was involved in several skirmishes. As
136-739: The armistice of 1943 when joined the Italian Resistance and became the secretary of the Sardinian Action Party for southern Italy. He became the leader of the left wing of the party and later joined forces with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). After World War II he served as the Minister for Post-War Assistance in the government of Ferruccio Parri and later as a minister without portfolio in Alcide De Gasperi 's government. In 1964 Lussu separated from
153-581: The civil war in Spain. Between 1941 and 1942 he was the protagonist of the most important "episode" of the collaboration between British Special Operations Executive and Italian antifascism in exile. He tried to get the clearance for an antifascist uprising in his home island of Sardinia , which the SOE supported at some stage but did not receive approval from the Foreign Office . He returned to Italy after
170-470: The High Plateau combines well the repulse of the war with the bravery of the fighter. Lussu's consistency has been questioned and politics often invades evaluations of his works. In the Florestano Vancini 's film The Assassination of Matteotti (1973), Lussu is played by Giovanni Brusatori. Armungia Armungia , Armùngia in sardinian language , is a comune (municipality) in
187-536: The High Plateau " ( Un anno sull'altipiano ) about his experiences of trench warfare on the Plateau. The 1970 movie Many Wars Ago ("Uomini contro") by Francesco Rosi is based from this book. After the war Lussu, together with Camillo Bellieni , founded the Partidu Sardu - Partito Sardo d'Azione ( Sardinian Action Party ), that blended social-democratic values and Sardinian nationalism . The party took
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#1732775273006204-585: The PSI, creating the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP). Ideological differences with the political line of Partito Sardo d'Azione deepened and Lussu left Sardinia. Emilio Lussu died in Rome in 1975. Many political meanings have been drawn from Lussu's works, but his works are perhaps more important at a personal level. Morally and philosophically, Lussu's books reflect his need to repent, having been previously an interventista (favourable to entering
221-418: The common man. Gifted with a keen sense of observation and sharp logic, Lussu demonstrates how distant the real life of soldiers is from everyday activities. In a notable passage, he describes the silent terror in the moments preceding an attack, as he is forced to abandon the "safe" protective trench for an external unknown, risky, undefined world: "All the machine-guns are waiting for us". Lussu took part in
238-408: The incapable political class of bounding idealists, he approached the nationalists of Il Popolo d'Italia (directed by Benito Mussolini ), a newspaper with which he collaborated from 1919 to 1922. During that time, Rossi met Gaetano Salvemini , a democratic left-interventionist with whom he formed a long-lasting bond of respect and friendship, and he moved definitively and radically further from
255-788: The same day that Benito Mussolini suffered an attack in Bologna ), Lussu shot one of the squadristi (italian blackshirts) , in self-defense. He was arrested and tried, being found non-guilty due to the right to self defense, only to be later sentenced (due to fascist political interference) to 5 years of confinement on the island of Lipari , within the Aeolian Islands near the northern coast of Sicily . In 1929 Lussu escaped from his confinement and reached Paris. There, together with Gaetano Salvemini , Carlo Rosselli , Riccardo Bauer , Ernesto Rossi and other anti-fascist refugees he founded Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Freedom), an anti-Fascist movement that proposed revolutionary methods to upset
272-543: The war) and a revolutionary (in Giustizia e Libertà ); his works soberly describe what war, in its cruellest moments, was like for him. The alteration of Lussu's opinion of war is quite apparent in the range of his works: first an interventista , then the author of a manual for revolution, soon afterwards the author of a pacifist book, then again a revolutionary and a volunteer in the Spanish civil war. Anyway, One Year on
289-745: Was an Italian politician, journalist, and anti-fascist activist. His ideas contributed to the Action Party , and subsequently the Radical Party . He was co-author of the Ventotene Manifesto . Born in Caserta , the not yet nineteen-years old Rossi voluntarily enlisted and fought in World War I . After the war, moved by opposition to the socialists ' attitude of hostility towards war veterans and their sacrifices and by contempt of
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