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Marco Angeli di Sartena (1905-1985) was a politician from
Marco Angeli and the "Gruppi d'Azione Corsa" in Pisa
/ref> He had friendship with Pietro Rocca and influenced him to become an irredentist. In the spring of 1943 Angeli returned with Petru Giovacchini to his Corsica -occupied by Italian troops in November 1942- in order to try to promote an administrative union of the island to the Kingdom of Italy (like
Marco Angeli di Sartena (1905-1985) was a politician from Corsica
Corsica ( , , ; ; ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the Regions of France, 18 regions of France. It is the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the Metro ...
, who wrote in the famous Literary Review "A Muvra". He was an active irredentist
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, supporting the union of Corsica to Italy
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.
Life
He was born in Sartena, from a Corsican family with roots in theRepublic of Genoa
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. After moving to Italy because of his irredentism ideals, he graduated in medicine
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at the University of Pisa.
The irredentist Marco Angeli di Sartèna wrote in 1924 the first book in " Corso" (titled ''Terra còrsa'') and many lyrics in this dialect/language (titled ''Malincunie'') in Ajaccio
Ajaccio (, , ; French language, French: ; or ; , locally: ; ) is the capital and largest city of Corsica, France. It forms a communes of France, French commune, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Corse-du-Sud, and head o ...
. He even created and wrote the newspaper «Gioventù» of the "Partito Corso d'azione", partially in Italian and Corsican.
In 1930 Marco Angeli created the "Gruppi d'Azione Corsa", which did a huge propaganda in Italy and Corsica against France
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's control of the island: already in 1931 it had more than one thousand members./ref> He had friendship with Pietro Rocca and influenced him to become an irredentist. In the spring of 1943 Angeli returned with Petru Giovacchini to his Corsica -occupied by Italian troops in November 1942- in order to try to promote an administrative union of the island to the Kingdom of Italy (like
Dalmatia
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): but he was unsuccessful because of Nazi German
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opposition.
After the Italian defeat in World War II
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Angeli was condemned to death by a French tribunal, but he escaped the punishment by remaining in Italy for the rest of his life.
Bibliography
* Rainero, R.H. ''Mussolini e Pétain. Storia dei rapporti tra l’Italia e la Francia di Vichy''. Ussme Ed. Roma, 1990See also
* Italian irredentism in CorsicaReferences
{{DEFAULTSORT:Angeli Di Sartena, Marco People from Corse-du-Sud 1905 births 1985 deaths