Where was the Italian anthem born? University of Genoa survey

(ANSA) – SAVONA, APRIL 14 – Where was the Italian anthem born? In Carcare, a small municipality in the Savonese area, or in Genoa? The truth will pass through a scholarship, which the Municipality of Carcare will activate with the University of Genoa. The Savona edition of ‘Il Secolo XIX’ tells the story, illustrating the ‘tug of war’ between historians and scholars that emerged from the conference ‘Italy has awakened… Let’s unite… Let’s love each other…’ organized by the Savona municipality. Present were the president of the Genoa City Council Carmelo Cassibba and the Alpine Fanfare ‘Monte Beigua’ of Savona, who made the notes of the Mameli anthem resonate throughout the country. It will be the students of the University of Genoa with a thesis who will resolve the historical doubt on the birthplace of the Italian song and reveal whether the mind that composed it was only Mameli or part of the credit goes to Father Scolopio Atanasio Canata, who in 1846 with the rector of the college of Carcare, Father Giovanni Garassini welcomed Goffredo Mameli for a period. “It’s time to clarify – declares the mayor Rodolfo Mirri to ‘Il Secolo XIX’ -. Carcare does not want to claim merits that it does not have, but the oral tradition and the documents handed down by the Piarist fathers have always made us think that the anthem was written in the college founded by San Giuseppe Calasanzio. He was sent here by his family at the age of 19, he met Father Canata and we believe something important was born from their chats, the Hymn. Therefore, we too, like Genoa, claim the name of City of the Hymn”. To support the thesis, Carcare relied on the historian Aldo Mola, according to whom the Hymn may not be entirely the work of Mameli (“too young to formulate certain verses”), but “it is probable that his thought influenced the work of Father Canata”. “Now research will support us in clarifying things”, says the municipal councilor for culture Beatrice Scarrone, explaining that Carcare will establish a scholarship with the University of the other Ligurian city that claims paternity of the anthem. (HANDLE).