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Workers' Hymn
The Workers' Hymn (Italian: L'Inno dei Lavoratori) or Workers' Song (Il Canto dei Lavoratori), also known as the Hymn of the Italian Workers' Party (L'Inno del Partito Operaio Italiano), is an Italian socialist anthem written by Filippo Turati, and set to music by Amintore Galli.
Published in March 1886, the song was composed for the Italian Workers' Party, led by Costantino Lazzari. It quickly became popular, and is considered one of the most significant historic songs of the Italian workers' movement, alongside Bandiera Rossa, The Internationale, and the Hymn of the First of May . It was censored by successive governments of the Kingdom of Italy, including during the First World War and under Fascist Italy.
Despite the anthem's popularity, its authors were ashamed of their work. Turati later declared the poem "a juvenile poetic sin", while Galli kept his authorship of the music unknown, and was tormented by fear and stress in his later life due to its popularity and censorship.
The Workers' Hymn was commissioned by the first exponents of Italian socialism, particularly Costantino Lazzari, future secretary of the Italian Socialist Party. Lazzari, then leader of the Italian Workers' Party, wanted an anthem to inaugurate the standard of the League of Children of Labour (Lega dei Figli del Lavoro), a Milanese association of manual workers that advocated for mutual aid, popular education, the protection of workers' rights, and social emancipation.
For the text, Lazzari commissioned Filippo Turati, a young lawyer associated with the Milanese Socialist League, which was recognised for its intellectual character. Turati was reluctant to compose the anthem, but was encouraged by his mother, Adele. He was ashamed of the final text, and promised Lazzari to rewrite it, but Lazzari accepted it. The anthem was published on 7 March 1886 in Milanese newspaper La Farfalla, crediting Turati. On 20 and 21 March 1886, the anthem was published without crediting Turati in the party's journal, Il Fascio Operaio. The text was modified to fit the music.
Years after the song's publication, in his trial for the Bava Beccaris massacre, Turati was asked to declare his authorship of the anthem, which he affirmed. He said that the anthem was a "juvenile poetic sin", and retorted:
They have put me on trial so many times for those verses as incitements for class hatred. Instead, they should have sentenced me to death for inciting a crime against Poetry.
Workers' Hymn
The Workers' Hymn (Italian: L'Inno dei Lavoratori) or Workers' Song (Il Canto dei Lavoratori), also known as the Hymn of the Italian Workers' Party (L'Inno del Partito Operaio Italiano), is an Italian socialist anthem written by Filippo Turati, and set to music by Amintore Galli.
Published in March 1886, the song was composed for the Italian Workers' Party, led by Costantino Lazzari. It quickly became popular, and is considered one of the most significant historic songs of the Italian workers' movement, alongside Bandiera Rossa, The Internationale, and the Hymn of the First of May . It was censored by successive governments of the Kingdom of Italy, including during the First World War and under Fascist Italy.
Despite the anthem's popularity, its authors were ashamed of their work. Turati later declared the poem "a juvenile poetic sin", while Galli kept his authorship of the music unknown, and was tormented by fear and stress in his later life due to its popularity and censorship.
The Workers' Hymn was commissioned by the first exponents of Italian socialism, particularly Costantino Lazzari, future secretary of the Italian Socialist Party. Lazzari, then leader of the Italian Workers' Party, wanted an anthem to inaugurate the standard of the League of Children of Labour (Lega dei Figli del Lavoro), a Milanese association of manual workers that advocated for mutual aid, popular education, the protection of workers' rights, and social emancipation.
For the text, Lazzari commissioned Filippo Turati, a young lawyer associated with the Milanese Socialist League, which was recognised for its intellectual character. Turati was reluctant to compose the anthem, but was encouraged by his mother, Adele. He was ashamed of the final text, and promised Lazzari to rewrite it, but Lazzari accepted it. The anthem was published on 7 March 1886 in Milanese newspaper La Farfalla, crediting Turati. On 20 and 21 March 1886, the anthem was published without crediting Turati in the party's journal, Il Fascio Operaio. The text was modified to fit the music.
Years after the song's publication, in his trial for the Bava Beccaris massacre, Turati was asked to declare his authorship of the anthem, which he affirmed. He said that the anthem was a "juvenile poetic sin", and retorted:
They have put me on trial so many times for those verses as incitements for class hatred. Instead, they should have sentenced me to death for inciting a crime against Poetry.