Tullio Giordana – Wikipedia

Carlo Tullio Pietro Francesco ^[first] Jordan (Crema, 5 July 1877 ^[2] – Milan, January 27, 1950) was an Italian writer, journalist and lawyer.

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Born in Crema in a family of Piedmontese origins, he remained orphaned before the father (Pietro Giordana, lieutenant of the carabinieri) and then of the mother already at the age of ten. He had grown up by Samarani, relatives of his mother Elvira Carniti.

At the age of twenty followed Ricciotti Garibaldi in Greece to fight in the war against the Ottoman Empire of 1897 and where, thanks to the intervention of the little more old Ugo Ojetti, he was appointed correspondent of the Roman newspaper At the stand . However, he did not make his debut in that assignment, but a few months later, and for The print by Luigi Roux and Alfredo Frassati, who sent him to Spain where, on August 8 of that year, the Apulian anarchist Michele Angiolillo killed the Prime Minister Iberian Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.

At the end of the century he devoted himself to the drafting of some novels in the Dannunzio style then prevailing ( The deal 1897, The flame and the shadow 1898, The eye of the lake 1899) and published the collection of novels The Greek (1899), linked to its brief experience in the Hellenic land. He then graduated in Law and became a lawyer, on 9 December 1901 he married Sanremo with Clelia Bertollo, daughter of the rich industrialist Giovanni Bertollo. On the wave of the protests of the European intellectuals caused in the last years of the nineteenth century by the attempt to rush the Grand Duchy of Finland, in 1902 he wrote the essay The death of a Constitution (Finland 1809-1899) With the pseudonym Patrius. ^[3]

In 1904 he went with his friend Ojetti in the United States of America in Saint Louis on the occasion of the Saint Louis World Fair (the universal exhibition organized to celebrate the centenary of the purchase of Louisiana) and thus had the opportunity to get to know closely American journalism, of which he would have adopted some characteristic aspects (such as the chronicle of the most important events written on the spot). In the same year Luigi Roux, who passed from Turin to Rome, called him to work on Podium , of which he was editor until August 31, 1910, when he left the Roman newspaper to go to direct (perhaps with the support of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando) Time of Palermo. Starting from 1907 he was also correspondent of the New York Herald , he published the legal essay Private property in maritime wars according to public international law (1907) and, at the end of 1908, he took part as a voluntary nurse in a rescue expedition to the victims of the disastrous Messina earthquake.

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After following the first months of the Libya war, on April 29, 1912 Giordana left the direction of the Sicilian newspaper (where the “airship” had been nicknamed)) ^[4] To resume the editor’s work to the Podium , remaining there until December 1917. Parallelly his scientific career proceeded. On January 17, 1914 he was appointed president of the experimental station of agricultural bacteriology of Crema (founded and directed by Professor Franco Samarani, his relative and inventor of the “Silo with a lid” for the conservation of the fodder) and the following year, after telling the his readers the catastrophic earthquake of Marsica (15 January 1915), ^[5] He participated as a volunteer in the First World War: Alpine officer, he was wounded twice deserving two silver medals.

After the defeat of Caporetto (October 1917) in Italy the government fell. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando was appointed head of the executive. Sure of his support, Giordana founded a new political newspaper in Rome in December 1917: The era . Together with Prince Alberto Giovanelli, “very rich Venetian land owner and radical deputy”, he founded the publishing company of the newspaper, the “Urbs”. Giovanelli was president, while Giordana was, in addition to the director, “also the administrator and general manager of the publishing company”. Subsequently, the journalist acquired part of the ownership of the “Urbs” thanks to the “conspicuous economic resources of his wife” ^[6] From 1918 to 1925 he was also the owner of the satirical weekly The labor of ideas .

Giordana had long been enrolled in the Italian radical party and gave a The era a liberal-democratic address in harmony both with its progressive political positions, already manifested for another to Time Palermitana, both with the friendship that bound him to Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, and to whom perhaps the accentuation of the patriotic tones of the newspaper must be accentuated. At the end of the war, Giordana’s political commitment materialized in his candidates as radical in the coalitions of the so -called national blocks in the political elections of November 19, 1919 and to the slightly subsequent ones of 15 May 1921, but with little success. On April 26, 1922 he also participated in the foundation of the Italian Social Democratic Party.

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In the meantime he had brought The era At a fairly widespread statement but, having passed the property of hand (September 1921), he left the direction. The attention of Giordana and Prince Giovanelli then turned to Il Giornale d’Italia , where, however, they collided on the one hand with the opposition of Antonio Salandra, his founder with Sidney Sonnino in 1901, and by Alberto Bergamini, his director and partner who is also united since 1901, and on the other with that of Benito Mussolini interested in his own aimed at the acquisition of the prestigious newspaper. Thus blended the project, the two folded over the Podium , of which the property took over and of which Giordana assumed the direction in December 1923, reserving the newly woven eye from the newborn Mussolini government not disjointed by criticisms of the violence and partisanosities of fascism. ^[7] Criticisms that were accentuated after the crime Matteotti (10 June 1924), transforming into open dissent following the Mussolinian discourse of January 3, 1925 and finally in the choice of plantism. The distance from politics did not save him, in September, from the aggression of Telesio Interlandi, director of the fascist newspaper The Tiber , ^[8] And then from a real assault on his home. ^[9]

At the end of 1925 Giordana decided to leave the direction of the newspaper and to retire from the profession, marginalizing more or less “voluntarily” in Spoleto, where he took care of the administration of his holding of Colle Montano, also creating a volume on the cultivation of wheat, Gold in beans. Current cultures of wheat (1929). Several attempts to establish themselves as the author of Mondadori (1932), instead published, with the pseudonym Enrico Piernera, some writings in the humorous-sports weekly The Settebello and, at the outbreak of the war of Ethiopia (October 2, 1935 – 5 May 1936), once again he left voluntarily for the front. However, he had to return to Italy a month before the conclusion of the Africa campaign following a car accident. The result of that experience were the promotion to Lieutenant Colonel and two publications: Heaves and scare: waved mysteries. Notes of a combatant (1936, published with the pseudonym of Triarius) and the novel Seventh floor of the obelisk (1937).

A few years later he did not give up participating even in the Second World War by making himself referred to in service among the Alpine troops but, once he was given his contribution to the so-called “battle of the Western Alps” (10-25 June 1940), was then dismissed for reached limits D ‘age; However, he was awarded with the appointment as knight of the military order of Savoy and the promotion to Colonel. In 1941 the Card of the Fascist National Party REQUIRED and was able to return to the journalistic world. He worked as head of the propaganda office in the administration of the Turin publishing company, owner of the Gazzetta del Popolo . After the fall of fascism, he assumed its direction, with the approval of the Ministry of Popular Culture Badogliano, until 8 September 1943. ^[ten]

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Enrolled in the Democratic Party of Labor, since May 1944 he participated (battle name Dolphin ) to the Resistance in Val Chisone entering the autonomous brigade “Val Chisone” led by Sergeant Maggioreino Marcellin (battle name Blood ) and constituted largely by Alpini who had already fought under his command; On August 10, almost surrounded by the Germans, the partisans managed to disengage in small groups and found refuge in French territory. Here Giordana tried to reorganize the formations of the Resistance, but clashing with the hostility of the transalpine authorities. After liberation he collaborated with The print of Turin (then The new press ) and the Corriere del Popolo of Genoa, before hiring, from 17 March 1946, the management al Rest of the Carlino renamed Giornale dell’Emilia , to which he gave his traditional progressive, moderate and patriotic approach.

For example, it was he, on May 26, 1946, wrote the article “Castelfranco-Manzolino-Piumazzo. A triangle traced with the blood”, in which he coined the phrase “Triangle of death” to indicate the area on the Emilian Apennines between Modena and Reggio theater, even after the liberation, of numerous executions of former fascists by the communist partisans. Which earned him a “defamatory” criticism by the communist deputy Arturo Colombi, against whom he then died. ^[11] A few months later, in December, he started an aspra printing campaign against the constituent (with editorials Assembly in the refrigerator It is Balorda initiative ), enhanced in the “miserable show of a parliamentary conspiracy for surprising improvisation”: “The absurd fracture” proposed by Minister Giuseppe Micheli to create the Ligurian-Emilian Lunezia region. At the beginning of 1947 he launched the newspaper in another campaign in support of independence, especially economic, of the judiciary ( Judges to hunger ). Probable political contrasts with the ownership of the newspaper, which seems to judge him too much to the left, ^[twelfth] They convinced him to resign on October 1, 1947.

With the pseudonym Enrico Piernera he still wrote in 1948 for The illustration of the people , illustrated supplement of the Gazzetta del Popolo , before turning off in Milan a year and a half later.

The Municipality of Rome has dedicated a street to him in the area of ​​the Casale Capocotta, at Pratica di Mare.

• In the wedding Cardazzi-Rapuzzi, Tullio Giordana offers the ninth wishes in honor of the bride , Cremona, Fezzi, 1896.
• Tullio Giordana offers the first pages of the pact , Cremona, Fezzi, 1896.
• The deal. Novel (Preface by Renato Eduardo), Cremona, Fezzi, 1897.
• The flame and the shadow. Novel , Turin, Roux, Frassati and C., 1898.
• The eye of the lake. Novel , Turin, Roux, Frassati and C., 1899.
• The Greeks. Short stories , Turin, Roux, Frassati and C., 1899.
• The death of a Constitution (Finland 1809-1899) , Turin-Rome, Roux and Viarengo National Publishing House, 1902. Published with the pseudonym Patrius.
• Private property in maritime wars according to public international law , Turin-Rome, national typographical company, 1907.
• “The right of prey in the maritime war”, in New anthology , 1911.
• Gold in beans. Current cultures of wheat , Florence, Le Monnier, 1929. 2nd ed. expanded, 1931.
• “Aired And Scare: Washed Mysteries. Notes of a combatant,” in New anthology , 1 and 16 June 1936. Published with the pseudonym Triarius, then also in volume.
• Seventh floor of the obelisk. Novel , Milan, Ceschina, 1937.

• Emilio Brusa, “on private property in maritime wars. At the occasion of the book by Tullio Giordana. Note”, in Acts of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin , XLII, 1907.
• Angela Trabucco, Partisans in Val Chisone, 1943-45 (presentation of Ferruccio Parri), Torre Pellice, Subalpina, 1959.
• Brunello Vigezzi (edited by), 1919-1925. Post -war and fascism. Politics and press in Italy , Bari, Laterza. 1965.
• Giorgio Bocca, History of partisan Italy (September 1943 – May 1945) , Bari, Laterza, 1966.
• Valerio Castronovo, The Italian press from unity to fascism , Rome-Bari, Laterza, 1973.
• Olga Majo-Molinari, The Roman periodic press from 1900 to 1926. Moral, historical and philological sciences , Rome, Institute of Roman Studies, 1977, 2 vols.
• Dino Biondi, Il Resto del Carlino, 1885-1985. A newspaper in the history of Italy , Bologna, Poligrafici, 1985.
• Mario Grantinetti, The newspapers of Turin from the fall of fascism to 1948 , Turin, Piedmontese Study Center, 1986.
• Lucio d’Angelo, Radical democracy between the First World War and Fascism , Rome, Bonacacs, 1990. ISBN 88-7573-217-5.
• Mario Grantinetti, The newspapers in Italy, 1943-1991 , Milan, Franco Angeli, 1992. ISBN 88-204-7585-5.
• Nazario Sauro Onofri, The newspapers of Liberation in Bologna, 1945-1947 , Bologna, Provincial Historical Institute of Resistance, 1996.
• Giovanni Orsina, Without church or class. The radical party in the Giolittian age , Rome, Carocci, 1998. ISBN 88-430-1145-6.
• Giovanni Orsina, “Giordana, Tullio (Carlo Tullio)”, in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , Rome, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 2001, vol. 55.
• Carlo Chevallard, Diary 1942-1945. Chronicles of the war time (edited by Riccardo Marchis), Turin, Blu, 2005. ISBN 88-7904-002-2 (also available on Google Books ).
• Franco Contorbia (edited by), Italian journalism , Milano, Mondadori, 2007, 2o Vol. (“1901-1939”). ISBN 978-88-04-5 2ª ed.: 2009, ISBN 978-88-04-59411-6
• Pier Luigi Vercesi, Italy on the front page. Journalists who made history , Milan, Brioschi, 2008. ISBN 978-88-95399-07-2 (also available on Google Books ).

• Giordana, Tùllio . are sape.it , De Agostini.
• Giovanni Orsina, Giordana, Tullio , in Biographical Dictionary of Italians , vol. 55, Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia, 2001.
• Works by Tullio Giordana . are Free free .

Predecessor	Director of the time	Successor
Giovanni Beauty	1910 – 1912	Bonaretto Bonaretti