@@C.freebad you are very ignorant, but ok ignorance is fashionable; the "Balilla" is the nickname of a boy who threw a stone at an Austrian officer and started the revolt in the city of Genoa in 1735! do you know that 1735 comes before 1922? Do you want me to explain the vowels too: A E I O U
@@gamm8939 he died 21, but he has seen 22 years (1827-49) and he didn't die in battle but just after due to an injury in the defense of Rome against the French.
I’m American, and none of my ancestors are Italian, but I lived in Italy for three years as a kid, and I feel like it’s my adopted home…I LOVE Italy! Forza Italia!
100% Italian born and raised and I wan t to say this is your home. Many Americans are moving here lately. If you want to do the same, you're welcome, like all the others.
@@WarrioroftheWest7 1993? Before the Euro? We were the third economy on the planet back then, and yet, you're in for a surprise! Italy is now the safest country per population on Earth, if you want to visit again my suggestion is for the city of Genoa. Inventors of the "Jeans". Hometown of Christopher Columbus. Most American-friendly city in Europe. Let me know if you need an apartment. I'll host you for free. No joke brother. :D
Some additional info: the "Canto degli Italiani", which is the official name of the anthem, was adopted after the war with the birth of the Republic. It was introduced transitorily, to then revise the matter in the future and take a final decision. The issue was never taken up in the following years and thus the anthem stuck (though it actually was confirmed as the country's official and definitive anthem only in 2017), but was not a major thing with the population. In the early 2000s president Ciampi promoted a strong campaign to introduce it at all events and encouraged people to start singing it proudly. This whole new attitude towards the anthem was then reinforced in 2011 with the 150th anniversary of the constitution of modern Italy as a nation. From then on the people have really adopted it and, as you say, the Covid lockdown was the final strong catalyst that really brought everything together.
@@pragmatica_fantasy3874 " @pragmatica_fantasy3874 5 days ago "Yes" is part of the lyrics " Absolutely not. "Yes" is not part of the lyrics. This is just added to "fill" the final chord. I never sing it.
Anche a me, lacrimoni proprio. Anche perché ho perso mia madre nel 2020. Da 9 anni vivo all'estero, prima UK e ora Malta. Un abbraccio a tutti gli italiani nel mondo. 💙
As a Mexican-American I was very fortunate to have lived 3 years in the island of Sicily, yes I know its a bit different down there and its not Florence or Rome, but the Italian spirit is still very strong and everywhere in Sicily, and I felt in love with it, I always considered Italy and Sicily my 3rd home..
Its really silly ridicolous that americans thinks that who come from: Tuscany, Venice, Milan and Rome is much more italian and "Noble" than who lives in the other places of country, I find all this enormously offensive to all our citizens who have worked, fought and lost a lot in our history, but do not worry about it since you are the most important, rich and "Great" country of the earth.😓😓😓
The music itself is also a “finale d’Opera”, the last piece to run in an opera, it’s a “call and response”, where the king asks the Italians to join him, the Italians first reply with shyness acknowledging the question, then he ask again and they come back with energy and passion (that’s why all parts are repeated twice)
If I can add a small note to fhiss magnificent video, before the 2000s there was no great tradition in singing the anthem in football even during the word cup in Italy almost nobody sang it. It was the president of the republic Ciampi who advised starting to sing as was done in Rugby and the first results they showed up from 2006 onwards. Thank you for this great video ❤❤
The covid part made me cry. I remember both my grandparents from mother side where in critical conditions and me and my family were in quarantine and could comunicate with them like once every two days through phone calls. It was a frightening period
I’m italian and even before the pandemic when I sang the national anthem I was screaming it at the top of my lungs. The song has a very powerful meaning that I don’t think people outside of Italy would understand. When I went to Boston I played it for the family which was hosting me and one of my friends, and when we sang it holding each other screaming and jumping they were very surprised.
It is true that in the early 90’s no one sang the national anthem. It was for President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, in charge since 1999 to 2006. He restored the importance of things such as the national anthem, and to see sport players of Italy to sing it correctly . Before of that, patriotism was seen as sort of fascist behaviour.
And it's the same nowadays, left idiots and wake culture fans still believe that to be a patriot means to be fascist. I'm a patriot and NEVER been fascist, keep it in mind leftists, you are the real fascists
It's a great revolutionary song, like the Marseillaise and also like the Polish anthem Jeszcze Polska - which was actually the song of the Poles in exile in Italy. The words are historic, but obscure and it's glorious but quite hard to sing. Important fact: it was suppressed during the time of fascism, and thus became one of the songs of liberation, then adopted by the new Italian Republic, and since always played at the anniversary of liberation.
Italian and Poland anthems are connected with their history, ''il sangue d'Italia, il sangue polacco'' and ''march, march Dombrowski from Italy to Poland'' the 2 hymns are beautiful and powerful...
Avrebbe potuto essere un video discreto se solo avessero evitato i soliti e vecchi (avete stancato!) luoghi comuni: urliamo anche quando compriamo i pomodori, oppure la famiglia di Toni Manero nella febbre del sabato sera è la tipica famiglia italiana... Come dire: mister Bean è l'inglese medio. E tanto per essere precisi, non vi è alcuna correlazione tra il covid e l'orgoglio nel cantare l'inno.
🦅 - S.P.Q.R. - 🦅 La forza di cantare viene dai tempi delle legioni romane, dove i soldati marciavano intonando canti di lotta e di gloria. È giusto che il canto del risorgimento abbia la stessa forza e la stessa eredità del grande Impero Romano. #italia #spqr
in 1980 they didn't sing because the national anthem was a thing to hear sung by a band and it was almost never sung. Only later did we start singing because the players were expected to sing it too, not because of the covid😅
Exactly, if you watch 2006 World Cup you see them singing it loud. Only Cameronesi didn’t because he was Argentinian.. This has nothing to do with COVID.
It’s both things. In 2006 our President, who was a scholar with interest in the hymn, rounded up players and gave them a lecture on the meaning and the importance of the song. They sang it and won, so since we are superstitious people we kept at it. After covid ot took a different meaning. When all references where lost and all you could hear was the sound of ambulances, the only thing that made me feel less alone was the national anthem flash mob at 11 on Fridays. Now we sing it, with those days in mind. And those people who cannot sing it.
My late grandfather served as ambassador to the Italian republic and was the first of his countrymen to receive the order of merit of the Italian republic, having helped hundreds of thousands of immigrants safe passage in the 1980s, and my mother spent the latter of her teen years in Rome, and she passed down the love of the country and the Azzuri to me. Visited back in 2014 and I will always hold a special place in my heart. Forza Italia!!
Oui, but do you seriously think that they came to their balconies only because they were asked to? or would they sing anything else if the president had asked for? 🤔
@@puzmedia Bel video se solo tu avessi rinunciato a qualche stereotipo...E comunque cantiamo con passione il nostro inno perché siamo consapevoli della nostra cultura e del contributo dato alla storia dell'umanità....e comunque da molto tempo prima della pandemia.
Sì, è vero che durante la presidenza Ciampi ci fu una grande rivalutazione dell'inno di Mameli e del tricolore. E fu Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in prima persona a spingere per una rivalutazione di questi simboli nazionali.
Pensate che 25 fa , solo il 15 - 20% degli Italiani conoscevano il testo dell'inno nazionale e nessuno lo cantava in pubblico, ma grazie al presidente della repubblica Carlo Azelio Ciampi che fece una campagna pubblicitaria con CD nei giornali e nelle scuole l'inno divenne popolare e cantato da tutti
As an Italian, although this story feels a bit romanticized, it is also true, and I do feel the emotion in the hymn, inside of me, I felt it even before the pandemic
What's the magic? Next time you are born, select Italy as the destination of your birth. Live there a bit, learn about it a bit more. And then understand the responsibility and pride that comes with that unique background when you face the world to represent it. It's not always a success; but there are enough successes, in every single field of human existence, that warrant the passion and respect.
You screaming in a desert....my brother..... Only a few people can understand that!!!!! Inheritance of to be Italian!!!!!!!!!!.... I like your words!!!!!!... An Italian former mountain trooper Alpini 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Great video, congratulations, but the anthem was sung with this passion even before the coronavirus. We know the great meaning of our Hymn, it was not just a question of the circumstances of that historical moment. 🇮🇹
Mr. Churchill's ancestors probably experienced firsthand whether this is true (minuto 3 e 55: un grande italiano che mostra come mettere in riga il solito imbecille straniero che pensa di sfottere e provocare...)
That's because in sports matches you have to fight at you best to honor your adversaries. While in war you still have to respect and honor your enemies even if you have to kill them.
From the Roman Empire, Italy has won nearly every war they fought and in WWII, Italy conquered 6 countries, was awarded the territory they won in France, and won the Spanish civil war vs. the Communist. Aside from Russia and Germany no other European country performed better, or stated another way, Italy was the 3rd best performing European country of the war. An Empire larger than Germany's. Churchill had to ask America for money and equipment because they were bankrupt and on the cusp of defeat. Without America, Commonwealths, French saving their army at Dunkirk and India, would have lost both WW's. Over 87,000 Indian troops, and 3 million civilians died in World War II.[2][3] Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, former Commander-in-Chief, India, stated that Britain "couldn't have come through both wars [World War I and II] if they hadn't had the Indian Army."[4][5]
Yeah, honestly I would prefer if we took football less seriously and more about serious things (economy, world affairs etc). Unfortunately, just like Churchill said, we loose wars (or whatever other serious matter) like they were football matches and we loose football matches as if those were wars.
We like to complaim a lot, but when shit hits the fun - the only time it really matters - we unite. Woes to whoever gets us united, reason why people always try to divide us for self interest, often our own.
The way of singing it by the sports teams has really nothing to do with the Covid. Common people, especially with center and rightwing ideas, always were in love with the anthem, in fact there was a lot of discussion on tv and journals years ago for the fact that the soccer team didn't sung it or was indeed very timid. They were obliged to learn it and sing it loudly. After that, it transformed into a motivational tradition. In the same years the President of the Republic, Ciampi, dedicated his presidency to the rediscover of the Risorgimento's values and the anthem was part of it. People started to become patriotic again, after decades of condemnation of the practice by the leftist parties, due to its closeness to the fascist's nationalism. The rest is history, it became a sign of the sports teams.
Only reason I love the Italian National anthem is because it used to follow after the German National Anthem with conductors M.Schumacher and S.Vettel #forzaferrari #f1 #f2004
The Brazilian anthem is beautiful, in sports competitions it is one of the three that I never want to miss. It looks like a piece written by a particularly inspired Rossini, it is enthralling ... but it lacks the pressing rhythm, passion and fury that distinguish the final part of the Italian one
Actually, the shift was because as you noticed, few decades ago no one was singing the anthem in major competitions. Ppl, especially politicians if I remember, begun complaining about this, about this lack of patriotism and effort in playing in the national team. After a while, football players begun singing, adding more and more passion over the years. At the beginning they were pretty shy, now they are not 😊
_"Fratelli d'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta,"_ Brother of Italy, Italy has waken up _"dell'elmo di Scipio s'è cinta la testa."_ With Scipio's helm (helmet) has adorned her [Italy's] head [Scipio is referring to Publio Cornelio Scipione, a roman empire general during Punic Wars] _"Dov'è la Vittoria?"_ Where is the victory? [from now on the concept of victory will be personified as an actual woman] _"Le porga la chioma, ché schiava di Roma Iddio la creò."_ [A little bit tricky here...] May the [Victory] hand her hair [implicit, to Italy] since God made [the Victory] a slave to Rome. [as per habit of cutting hair to the female slaves once they became enslaved, in roman empire times; here Mameli is implying that even the victory must bow to Italy's desire to become a united nation] _"Stringiamoci a coorte, siam pronti alla morte."_ Let's assemble to battalion, we are ready to die ["coorte" was the roman empire equivalent of a battalion -circa-] "Siam pronti alla morte, l'Italia chiamò." We are ready to die, Italy called us.
Fratelli d'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta, dell'elmo di Scipio s'è cinta la testa. Dov'è la Vittoria? Le porga la chioma, ché schiava di Roma Iddio la creò. Fratelli d'Italia, l'Italia s'è desta, dell'elmo di Scipio s'è cinta la testa. Dov'è la Vittoria? Le porga la chioma, ché schiava di Roma Iddio la creò. Stringiamoci a coorte, siam pronti alla morte. Siam pronti alla morte, l'Italia chiamò. Stringiamoci a coorte, siam pronti alla morte. Siam pronti alla morte, l'Italia chiamò!
Thanx for this emotional video. Nevertheless I have to underscore 2 little things: 1) here in the north not only we do not yell so much nor we do gesticulate 2) Risorgimento is pronounced as Ree-sore-dji-men-toe. Hugs from Milano.
People from Veneto are known to be quiet and to do not exhibit exaggeration.. But in general Italians are louder then people from other countries, and that is one of the main thing that people in the world loves Italians.
I haven't watched the video yet but I hope that you mentioned that Goffredo Mameli only wrote the lyrics and that the music was composed by Michele Novaro
Sadly, the rampant national-socialism these years made me hate anthems (and flags too): i always skip them, at the beginning or the end of sport events. Except for Russian anthem, which i think is beautiful (despite how horrific their leadership is)
Come on, it's on their blood, all been there since the creation of Rome, their resilience, you should hear about the Punic wars, the Romans created a navy from a stranded Punic ship, the navy got destroyed in a thunderstorm? They simply rebuilt it, again, and again.
I see millions of people signing Mameli’s anthem at football matches or national celebrations, an so on, but all this apparently patriotism ends up in a handful of “nothing” when they have to pay taxes, behave civilly or having compassion for poors who are Italians too. Tax evasion is 80 billion euros per year; 8 million people (13,5%) under the poverty line (less than 640 euros per month, which is very optimistic).😂
6:25 It has to be something cumulative Yeah, ever since the period of time of WC 1998-Euro 2000-WC 2002 there was a big controversy (another stupid italian controversy) about players not singing the anthem and then they forced them to learn it. Game, set, match
Only 30 years ago NOBODY could sing the anthem. Look at the football team in 94… everybody silent. No the years ‘00 athletes and Italians in general started to sing
You got the wrong title, You should have called your video Bonucci bonucci Bonucci he is all over your clips . I want to inform you that 90% of Italians absolutely hate bonucci for being extremely arrogant and disrespectful. the other 10% barely like him. another observation is that you barely addressed all the lyrics of the anthem. With that title we expect you to go over the lyrics.
risorgimento beginning of the end ... we don't are a people all the region of this place have a different etnies and race . expample i'm from LIguria and this people is riunited under the St. george cross flag from Genoa Republic and Ligurian was long time a go a Saracens. this is the reality mate
@@marcorossi835 it sounds like a childish lament, not a passionate and powerful one of a nation kept divided for centuries. The lyrics are good but musically is uninteresting and uninvolving to me
@@radualexa1356 a childish lament? what childish laments do you know? you don't know what you're talking about. It's a cabaletta and it's basically a call to arms.
@@marcorossi835 to me it sounds like that. I know what the lyrics say, I speak the language, but it feels like a cartoon calling to arms, i cant explain it better than this
@@radualexa1356 I know that you don't know what you're talking about, you want to give a musical analysis without having a clue. The anthem is a cabaletta which is perfect for Italy because it has its roots in the great operatic italian tradition.
Watch the vdeo of the final game of the US world cup back in 1994, of Italy vs Brasil. You'll probably think...wtf is wrong with the italian players....why so quiet and ''shy''??? go ahead, please just watch! There's NO passion!!!!
This is the dumbest ever. I've watched Italian football and Italian national team since the 2000s and they were always this passionate when singing the national anthem. You cherry picked the 1998 squad full of stoic cold headed players.
musically, it's one of the worst national anthems and the words are so rethoric that it's quite embarassing to sing it (but rethoric is common to quite all the national anthems)
