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List of events
Events from the year 1909 in Italy .
Kingdom of Italy
Events
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , author of the Futurist Manifesto
The poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the
Manifesto of Futurism (
Italian : Manifesto del Futurismo ) and initiates an artistic
philosophy ,
Futurism , rejecting the past, and celebrating speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it also advocates the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. In February 1909 the manifesto was published in one of Europe's main newspapers,
Le Figaro .
[1]
January
The government struggles to get relief aid to
Messina and
Calabria after the
earthquake on December 28, 1908 .
[2]
March
October
October 24 – At the Italian city of
Racconigi , Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was hosted by King Victor Emmanuel III. The foreign ministers the two nations,
Tommaso Tittoni and
Aleksandr Izvolsky , exchanged diplomatic notes on an informal agreement, known as the
Racconigi Bargain , for Russia and Italy to support each other's interests in the Balkans and in the
Ottoman Empire .
[4] Italy and the Russian Empire concluded another agreement with
Austro-Hungarian Empire a few days later disregarding this agreement.
December
Sports
Naples FBC wins the first
Lipton Challenge Cup , a
football competition competed between clubs from
Southern Italy and
Sicily .
[5]
Births
January 9 -
Herva Nelli , Italian-American operatic soprano (d. 1994)
February 4 –
René Gruau , Italian
fashion illustrator (d. 2004)
April 16 –
Pippo Starnazza , Italian jazz singer, composer, musician, entertainer and actor (d. 1975)
April 22 –
Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
April 22 –
Indro Montanelli , Italian journalist (d. 2001)
June 24 –
Tatiana Menotti , Italian operatic soprano (d. 2001)
June 28 –
Walter Audisio ,
Italian partisan and communist politician (d. 1973)
June 29 –
Vittorio Castellano , Italian statistician (d. 1997)
July 5 –
Isa Miranda , Italian actress who won the
Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival (d. 1982)
July 17 –
Alfonso Gatto , Italian poet (d. 1976)
July 22 -
Licia Albanese , Italian-American operatic soprano (d. 2014)
July 28 –
Eva Magni , Italian stage and film actress (d. 2005)
July 30 –
Vittorio Erspamer , Italian pharmacologist and chemist (d. 1999)
August 28 –
Lamberto Maggiorani , Italian actor notable for his portrayal of Antonio Ricci in
Bicycle Thieves (d. 1983)
October 10 –
Guido Seborga , pseudonym of Guido Hess, Italian journalist, poet, painter and writer (d. 1990)
October 18 –
Norberto Bobbio , Italian philosopher of law and political sciences (d. 2004)
Deaths
January 11 –
Nicola Petrina , Sicilian socialist and politician; one of the national leaders of the
Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues) (b. 1861)
February 8 –
Giacinto Morera , Italian engineer and mathematician, known for
Morera's theorem (b. 1856)
April 24 –
Giovanni Vailati , Italian philosopher, historian of science, and mathematician (b. 1863)
June 30 –
Antonio Gabaglio , Italian statistician (b. 1840)
October 19 –
Cesare Lombroso , Italian criminologist and physician (b. 1835)
December 4 –
Alessandro Fortis , Italian politician who served as the first Jewish Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1842)
December 16 –
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli , Italian
zoologist and
anthropologist (b. 1845)
References
^ Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present ,
p. 209
^
Homeless Ones Fight For Food; Few Get Relief , The New York Times, January 2, 1909
^
Italian Ministry Wins In Elections; Premier Giolitti Gets Large Majority in New Chamber of Deputies Chosen , The New York Times, March 8, 1909
^ Childs, Italo-Turkish Diplomacy and the War Over Libya, 1911–1912 ,
pp. 8–11
^
Lipton Challenge Cup by Roberto Quartarone on
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