I'm Italian. It talks about Italian history and the fact that Italy used not to be united. So it invites all italians to stay united. But it has so many historical references and the text in a quite old Italian doesn't help the understanding of the text
August 2, 1847. Klemens Von Metternich (austrian) wrote "Italy is only a geographical expression". Today, the Metternich Palace, owned by Klemens Von Metternich, is the seat of the Italian embassy in Vienna with a big Italian flag above the front door.
Brothers of Italy, Italy has woken, bound Scipio's helmet Upon her head. Where is Victory? Let her bow down, Because as a slave of Rome God created her. Chorus: Let us join in a cohort, we are ready for death. We are ready for death, Italy has called. Let us join in a cohort, We are ready for death. We are ready for death, Italy has called! We were for centuries downtrodden, derided, because we are not one people, because we are divided. Let one flag, one hope gather us all. The hour has struck for us to unite. Chorus Let us unite, let us love one another, Union and love Reveal to the peoples The ways of the Lord. Let us swear to set free The land of our birth: United, by God, Who can overcome us? Chorus From the Alps to Sicily, Legnano is everywhere; Every man hath the heart and hand of Ferruccio The children of Italy Are all called Balilla; Every trumpet blast soundeth the Vespers. Chorus The mercenary swords Are feeble reeds. Already the Eagle of Austria Hath lost its plumes. The blood of Italy, the Polish blood It drank, along with the Cossack, But it burned its heart. Chorus Long live Italy, She has awoken from slumber, bound Scipio's helmet Upon her head. Where is Victory? Let her bow down, Because as a slave of Rome God created her. Chorus
@@agenttheater5 was a ancient Roman warlord who destroyed Carthage in the second Punic war and became a symbol of pride for the entire Roman population. He defeated Hannibal that was the best Carthaginian warlord who was consider the only real threat to the Roman republic. To this days is still considered as an hero. His full name was “Publio Cornelio Scipione” but is better known as “Scipione l’Africano”.
@@agenttheater5 Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman consul and general who about 200 bc defeated the mighty Punic Empire with their capital Carthage on the south shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the then greatest enemy of the Roman Empire. The leader of Carthage at these times was Hannibal, who walked around the Mediterranean Sea and crossed the Alps mountain range with elephants to attack their capital city Rome. The Italians consider themselves as the successors and heirs of the great Roman Empire.
1. The title of the anthem isn't "Fratelli d'Italia" but "Il Canto degli Italiani" (the song of the Italians) 2. It was written by Goffredo Mameli who died during the Siege of Rome, and Michele Novaro who wrote the music. It was written during the Risorgimento by people who fought to unificate the country under one flag. 3. It's the official Italian anthem only since December 2018. From 1946 to 2018 it was a provisional anthem, the love of Italians for this anthem is really really recent, it became popular only in 1999 when the Italian President (Ciampi) encouraged/pushed all Italians to sing the anthem standing on attent. 4. The anthem is a Cabaletta, it was a very popular genre in the 19th century, its peculiarity is to repeat the stanzas and the chorus twice, the second with greater emphasis. The first time a tenor sing, the second the choir sing. It starts with the sound of drums that symbolize the battles for the unification of the country, the battles to make the Italy. It tells of a soldier, a warlord (the tenor) talking to the people (the choir) after they win the battle. Imagine something like: people hear a battle in the distance, after a while arrive Garibaldi on his horse who meet the people. And he say "Brothers, Italy is awaken, we are fighting like Scipio did, and the Victory (an ancient Roman goddess who served Rome) is close". The People repeat with with increasing emphasis until the chorus "we are ready to death, Italy has called". Italy didn't exist at that time. It should be played with more energy than this and with an accelerating tempo (the tempo is a moderate march at the begin and become a very excited "allegro mosso" when the crowd sing the chorus) and the tenor is missing, there is only the choir. First stanza said what I wrote above, Italy is finally awaken, we are doing what Scipio (the Roman general who defeat Hannibal) did, the goddess Victory is on our side like always been in Rome. Chorus: Let us join in a Cohort (that was a Roman Militar Unit), we are ready to death, Italy has called. Second: we were downtrodden, derided for centuries because we are divided, now it's time to unite under one flag, one hope. Third: If we are unite, with God and Love we will free our homeland. Fourth: All the peninsula is Legnano (the battle of Legnano when Italians defeat Imperial Army of Barbarossa), we all are Ferruccio (Francesco Ferrucci who fought against the Imperial Army of Charles V during the Siege of Florence), our children are Balilla (Giovan Battista Perasso, who started - throwing a stone at the occupants - the genovese revolt against the Habsburgs), all the bells ring like bells during the Vespri Siciliani (the Siclian rebellion against the Angevins). Fifth: The Austrian Empire is in decline, it has drunk our blood and - together with the Russians - the Polish one, but now we (Italians and Polish) are taking revenge. And the Austrian mercenary soldiers are weak. Sixth: Long live to Italy. And the same words of the chorus. Fun fact: Italian anthem tells about the Polish and Polish anthem tells about the Italians.
Just a note on the 2 names that are mentioned in the anthem: Ferruccio and Balilla. Ferruccio, whose name was Francesco Ferrucci, was a florentine commander during the renaissance. At the time the Grand Duchy of Florence had gotten rid of the Medici family, after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici (that was so good at his job that he was, and still is, called "Lorenzo the Wonderful"). Pope Clemente VII (a member of the Medici dinasty) made an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor (Charles V) to reinstate his family at the head of the city (and so the republic). Ferruccio was the general that defended Florence, dying on the line of duty. As for Balilla, it was the nickname of Gianbattista Perasso, a kid who, on December 5th 1746, in Genoa, threw a rock at the occupying Austro-Piedmontese troops, kickstarting the revolt that led to the liberation of the city 5 days later. Another name that is present in the anthem is Legnano, that's a town near Milan that is historically extremely important in Italian history: in 1176 Frederick II came to Italy to restore the various city-states under Holy Roman Empire's control, he was met in Legnano by an alliance of those city-states, called the Lombard League, and lost the battle, and the war. From that day Italy (northern Italy really) remained part of the HRE on paper, but was de facto autonomous. Now, to put everything I told you in context: the anthem was written in 1847, at the dawn of the Italian Independence Wars, that were 3 wars fought not really for independence, but to liberate areas of the historical Italy from foreign rule, namely Austria. Austria at the time (and for some time) was the hegemon of the HRE, so all germanic people were perceived as Austrians, the enemy, and so the people and events mentioned in the anthem are all against either Austria (Balilla), or the HRE (Ferruccio and Legnano).
scritto da Goffredo Mameli, giovane poeta e patriota, combatté per il Risorgimento e l'Unità D'Italia, scrisse il "canto degli italiani" musicato e successivamente diventato "inno d'Italia", mori a solo 21 anni dopo aver combattuto, riportando una ferita che si rivelò fatale.
This was so fun! You were just there staring at the screen without understanding a word 😂 Anyway, as someone already wrote, it talks about the Italian history and most of the word and I would say also most of the concepts are not very common nowadays in Italy! It promotes unity and love between all the Italian citizens, from N to S 💚🤍❤️
However, the name of the Italian national anthem is not "Fratelli d'Italia" ("Brothers of Italy") but "Il Canto degli Italiani" ("The song of the Italians"), I say it also for those Italians who do not know it.
It sounds strange but: With the law 4 December 2017, n. 181, the Republic has definitively recognised the text of Goffredo Mameli's "Song of the Italians" and the original musical score of Michele Novaro as its own national anthem.
Thanks for making our national anthem. Anyway I wanted to recommend a video that made the same channel as the Moscow video. And it's the video of St. Petersburg, in my opinion it's very nice too.
Thank you for showing respect. As an Italian it speaks about all Italians being united brothers. It speaks about history, the helmet of scipio. Scipio Was a general of rome who defeated Hannibal, leader of Carthage. It talks about great Italy being victorious and the great city of rome being created by god. Our people laughed at for centuries for being disunited in Europe. It speaks about from the alps to sicily we are all Italian brothers of a strong union. This part will be hard to explain but just take it this way. They are branches that bend the sold swords; Already the eagle of Austria has lost its feathers. the blood of Italy and the Polish blood Drank with Cossacks But its heart was burnt. Yea it’s a confusing national anthem but we all love it in Italy.
One of my favourite anthems. Some parts remind me of the imperial march in a good way obviously. You can hear the long tradition of art, music and culture italy has and this anthem is no exception.
you have to understand the historical period in which the anthem was written, in one of the most beautiful sentences it is said that Italy "has girded its head with the helmet of Scipio", Scipio (Publius Cornelius Scipio) is called this way because he is one of the greatest Roman generals, the one who wins the second Punic war in 218 A.C., a battle that changes the fate of the world and influences all Western culture and won by the Italians, so Italy in the anthem has woken up and put on its head the helmet of the greatest general of all time
Italy has a great anthem but for my money nothing beats the French anthem, La Marseillaise - passionate, stirring, actually singable as some simply are not & if you really want to see it at its best, check out the anthem scene from Casablanca. Excellent stuff!
@@paolomariottitatusdominati4341 E' vero, ma l'hanno parzialmente copiato da una canzone scritta da un piemontese per far danzare la nobiltà francese. ll che fa un po' ridere. Il testo è originale. La musica è un arrangiamento in chiave marziale. ua-cam.com/video/5pwjlqsIvC0/v-deo.html
Musicalmente è un bellissimo inno quello francese, ma, come quello tedesco, inglese e in generale di 9/10 di mondo è fortemente nazionalista e onestamente mi fa un po' schifino come cosa. Oddio, non come quello tedesco (la Germania è la meglio di tutte bla bla bla). L'inno italiano trovo invece che sia tra i più veri e patriottici, un testo che critica e mette in evidenza anche i difetti del nostro paese, è molto molto rappresentativo e poi non dimentichiamoci che a scriverlo è stato Mameli, un ragazzino di 19 anni che sarebbe morto due anni dopo in guerra, è molto molto ispirato come inno, dovremmo apprezzarlo per le sue strofe, non perché ci piace cantarlo allo stadio
I'm Italian. It talks about Italian history and the fact that Italy used not to be united. So it invites all italians to stay united. But it has so many historical references and the text in a quite old Italian doesn't help the understanding of the text
Beh concordo
Hehehe "balilla"
Yes. I am big for national unity. Italy was forever divided between the spheres of France, Austria, or even the Papalcy.
August 2, 1847. Klemens Von Metternich (austrian) wrote "Italy is only a geographical expression".
Today, the Metternich Palace, owned by Klemens Von Metternich, is the seat of the Italian embassy in Vienna with a big Italian flag above the front door.
Brothers of Italy,
Italy has woken,
bound Scipio's helmet
Upon her head.
Where is Victory?
Let her bow down,
Because as a slave of Rome
God created her.
Chorus:
Let us join in a cohort,
we are ready for death.
We are ready for death,
Italy has called.
Let us join in a cohort,
We are ready for death.
We are ready for death,
Italy has called!
We were for centuries
downtrodden, derided,
because we are not one people,
because we are divided.
Let one flag, one hope
gather us all.
The hour has struck
for us to unite.
Chorus
Let us unite, let us love one another,
Union and love
Reveal to the peoples
The ways of the Lord.
Let us swear to set free
The land of our birth:
United, by God,
Who can overcome us?
Chorus
From the Alps to Sicily,
Legnano is everywhere;
Every man hath the heart
and hand of Ferruccio
The children of Italy
Are all called Balilla;
Every trumpet blast
soundeth the Vespers.
Chorus
The mercenary swords
Are feeble reeds.
Already the Eagle of Austria
Hath lost its plumes.
The blood of Italy,
the Polish blood
It drank, along with the Cossack,
But it burned its heart.
Chorus
Long live Italy,
She has awoken from slumber,
bound Scipio's helmet
Upon her head.
Where is Victory?
Let her bow down,
Because as a slave of Rome
God created her.
Chorus
Thank you.
Who is or was Scipio?
❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@agenttheater5 was a ancient Roman warlord who destroyed Carthage in the second Punic war and became a symbol of pride for the entire Roman population. He defeated Hannibal that was the best Carthaginian warlord who was consider the only real threat to the Roman republic. To this days is still considered as an hero. His full name was “Publio Cornelio Scipione” but is better known as “Scipione l’Africano”.
@@agenttheater5 Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman consul and general who about 200 bc defeated the mighty Punic Empire with their capital Carthage on the south shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the then greatest enemy of the Roman Empire. The leader of Carthage at these times was Hannibal, who walked around the Mediterranean Sea and crossed the Alps mountain range with elephants to attack their capital city Rome. The Italians consider themselves as the successors and heirs of the great Roman Empire.
1. The title of the anthem isn't "Fratelli d'Italia" but "Il Canto degli Italiani" (the song of the Italians)
2. It was written by Goffredo Mameli who died during the Siege of Rome, and Michele Novaro who wrote the music. It was written during the Risorgimento by people who fought to unificate the country under one flag.
3. It's the official Italian anthem only since December 2018. From 1946 to 2018 it was a provisional anthem, the love of Italians for this anthem is really really recent, it became popular only in 1999 when the Italian President (Ciampi) encouraged/pushed all Italians to sing the anthem standing on attent.
4. The anthem is a Cabaletta, it was a very popular genre in the 19th century, its peculiarity is to repeat the stanzas and the chorus twice, the second with greater emphasis. The first time a tenor sing, the second the choir sing.
It starts with the sound of drums that symbolize the battles for the unification of the country, the battles to make the Italy. It tells of a soldier, a warlord (the tenor) talking to the people (the choir) after they win the battle.
Imagine something like: people hear a battle in the distance, after a while arrive Garibaldi on his horse who meet the people.
And he say "Brothers, Italy is awaken, we are fighting like Scipio did, and the Victory (an ancient Roman goddess who served Rome) is close". The People repeat with with increasing emphasis until the chorus "we are ready to death, Italy has called". Italy didn't exist at that time.
It should be played with more energy than this and with an accelerating tempo (the tempo is a moderate march at the begin and become a very excited "allegro mosso" when the crowd sing the chorus) and the tenor is missing, there is only the choir.
First stanza said what I wrote above, Italy is finally awaken, we are doing what Scipio (the Roman general who defeat Hannibal) did, the goddess Victory is on our side like always been in Rome.
Chorus: Let us join in a Cohort (that was a Roman Militar Unit), we are ready to death, Italy has called.
Second: we were downtrodden, derided for centuries because we are divided, now it's time to unite under one flag, one hope.
Third: If we are unite, with God and Love we will free our homeland.
Fourth: All the peninsula is Legnano (the battle of Legnano when Italians defeat Imperial Army of Barbarossa), we all are Ferruccio (Francesco Ferrucci who fought against the Imperial Army of Charles V during the Siege of Florence), our children are Balilla (Giovan Battista Perasso, who started - throwing a stone at the occupants - the genovese revolt against the Habsburgs), all the bells ring like bells during the Vespri Siciliani (the Siclian rebellion against the Angevins).
Fifth: The Austrian Empire is in decline, it has drunk our blood and - together with the Russians - the Polish one, but now we (Italians and Polish) are taking revenge. And the Austrian mercenary soldiers are weak.
Sixth: Long live to Italy. And the same words of the chorus.
Fun fact: Italian anthem tells about the Polish and Polish anthem tells about the Italians.
Just a note on the 2 names that are mentioned in the anthem: Ferruccio and Balilla.
Ferruccio, whose name was Francesco Ferrucci, was a florentine commander during the renaissance. At the time the Grand Duchy of Florence had gotten rid of the Medici family, after the death of Lorenzo de' Medici (that was so good at his job that he was, and still is, called "Lorenzo the Wonderful"). Pope Clemente VII (a member of the Medici dinasty) made an alliance with the Holy Roman Emperor (Charles V) to reinstate his family at the head of the city (and so the republic). Ferruccio was the general that defended Florence, dying on the line of duty.
As for Balilla, it was the nickname of Gianbattista Perasso, a kid who, on December 5th 1746, in Genoa, threw a rock at the occupying Austro-Piedmontese troops, kickstarting the revolt that led to the liberation of the city 5 days later.
Another name that is present in the anthem is Legnano, that's a town near Milan that is historically extremely important in Italian history: in 1176 Frederick II came to Italy to restore the various city-states under Holy Roman Empire's control, he was met in Legnano by an alliance of those city-states, called the Lombard League, and lost the battle, and the war. From that day Italy (northern Italy really) remained part of the HRE on paper, but was de facto autonomous.
Now, to put everything I told you in context: the anthem was written in 1847, at the dawn of the Italian Independence Wars, that were 3 wars fought not really for independence, but to liberate areas of the historical Italy from foreign rule, namely Austria. Austria at the time (and for some time) was the hegemon of the HRE, so all germanic people were perceived as Austrians, the enemy, and so the people and events mentioned in the anthem are all against either Austria (Balilla), or the HRE (Ferruccio and Legnano).
scritto da Goffredo Mameli, giovane poeta e patriota, combatté per il Risorgimento e l'Unità D'Italia, scrisse il "canto degli italiani" musicato e successivamente diventato "inno d'Italia", mori a solo 21 anni dopo aver combattuto, riportando una ferita che si rivelò fatale.
Thank you for watching brother! Respect from Italy!
This was so fun! You were just there staring at the screen without understanding a word 😂 Anyway, as someone already wrote, it talks about the Italian history and most of the word and I would say also most of the concepts are not very common nowadays in Italy! It promotes unity and love between all the Italian citizens, from N to S 💚🤍❤️
However, the name of the Italian national anthem is not "Fratelli d'Italia" ("Brothers of Italy") but "Il Canto degli Italiani" ("The song of the Italians"), I say it also for those Italians who do not know it.
L'ho appena scoperto lol
It sounds strange but:
With the law 4 December 2017, n. 181, the Republic has definitively recognised the text of Goffredo Mameli's "Song of the Italians" and the original musical score of Michele Novaro as its own national anthem.
Thanks for making our national anthem. Anyway I wanted to recommend a video that made the same channel as the Moscow video. And it's the video of St. Petersburg, in my opinion it's very nice too.
Is from 1847, music and coro still better than most todays songs
Thank you for showing respect. As an Italian it speaks about all Italians being united brothers. It speaks about history, the helmet of scipio. Scipio Was a general of rome who defeated Hannibal, leader of Carthage. It talks about great Italy being victorious and the great city of rome being created by god. Our people laughed at for centuries for being disunited in Europe. It speaks about from the alps to sicily we are all Italian brothers of a strong union. This part will be hard to explain but just take it this way.
They are branches that bend
the sold swords;
Already the eagle of Austria
has lost its feathers.
the blood of Italy
and the Polish blood
Drank with Cossacks
But its heart was burnt.
Yea it’s a confusing national anthem but we all love it in Italy.
Grazie! 🇮🇹♥️ , you should watch a video about hand gestures and their meanings that Italians use
React to the french one please !!! 🤩🇨🇵
For sure!
@@foreignreacts if you just write "La marseillaise", the most viewed video is made with english subtitles !
Non ci voleva tanto a cercare un video con i sottotitoli inglesi 😅
This is a good version.
Here's a video with both italian and english lyrics:
ua-cam.com/video/vU_-IvNbfQ0/v-deo.html
:)
You can react to France national anthem... 🇫🇷
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹❤️❤️❤️❤️
Saudi Arabia anthem please🇸🇦
Nice
Of course it's not English.
U.S.A
Wow it's not English! Wtf man!
The anthem talks about Italy reuniting and "walking up" (l'Italia s'è desta)
Sono italiano e sono fiero di esserlo
Ma chi te lo ha chiesto...
@@JonathanLivingston87Ma chi ti ha chiesto questo commento?!
@@heisenberg4977 scrivo il cazzo che voglio, amico
One of my favourite anthems. Some parts remind me of the imperial march in a good way obviously.
You can hear the long tradition of art, music and culture italy has and this anthem is no exception.
you have to understand the historical period in which the anthem was written, in one of the most beautiful sentences it is said that Italy "has girded its head with the helmet of Scipio", Scipio (Publius Cornelius Scipio) is called this way because he is one of the greatest Roman generals, the one who wins the second Punic war in 218 A.C., a battle that changes the fate of the world and influences all Western culture and won by the Italians, so Italy in the anthem has woken up and put on its head the helmet of the greatest general of all time
italyyyyyy
I miei preferiti Italia, Francia e Usa.
Do poland, it's worth it
Italy has a great anthem but for my money nothing beats the French anthem, La Marseillaise - passionate, stirring, actually singable as some simply are not & if you really want to see it at its best, check out the anthem scene from Casablanca. Excellent stuff!
@mattia cola eddai, che non è così male! Non fare il solito italiano che odia i francesi!
@mattia cola Madonna è più che patriottico, è un inno di guerra in pratica. Dire che è orribile non è per niente oggettivo secondo me
Guarda della Francia si può dire tutto, ma hanno uno degli inni più patriottici in circolazione
@@paolomariottitatusdominati4341 E' vero, ma l'hanno parzialmente copiato da una canzone scritta da un piemontese per far danzare la nobiltà francese. ll che fa un po' ridere. Il testo è originale. La musica è un arrangiamento in chiave marziale.
ua-cam.com/video/5pwjlqsIvC0/v-deo.html
Musicalmente è un bellissimo inno quello francese, ma, come quello tedesco, inglese e in generale di 9/10 di mondo è fortemente nazionalista e onestamente mi fa un po' schifino come cosa. Oddio, non come quello tedesco (la Germania è la meglio di tutte bla bla bla). L'inno italiano trovo invece che sia tra i più veri e patriottici, un testo che critica e mette in evidenza anche i difetti del nostro paese, è molto molto rappresentativo e poi non dimentichiamoci che a scriverlo è stato Mameli, un ragazzino di 19 anni che sarebbe morto due anni dopo in guerra, è molto molto ispirato come inno, dovremmo apprezzarlo per le sue strofe, non perché ci piace cantarlo allo stadio