Ferrara is a city and comune (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna,Northern Italy,capital of the province of Ferrara. As of 2016,it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated 44 kilometres northeast of Bologna,on the Po di Volano,a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River,located 5 km north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance,when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance,it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist,poet,essayist,editor,and international intellectual.
Italo Balbo was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force,Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age,he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini.
The province of Ferrara is a province in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Its capital is the city of Ferrara. As of May 2023,it has a population of 338,143 inhabitants over an area of 2,635.12 square kilometres (1,017.43 sq mi). The province contains 23 comuni,listed in the list of comuni of the province of Ferrara. Its provincial president is Gianni Michele Padovani.
The province of Ravenna is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ravenna. As of 2015,it has a population of 391,997 inhabitants over an area of 1,859.44 square kilometres (717.93 sq mi),giving it a population density of 210.81 inhabitants per square kilometre. Its provincial president is Claudio Casadio.
The history of the Jews in Italy spans more than two thousand years to the present. The Jewish presence in Italy dates to the pre-Christian Roman period and has continued,despite periods of extreme persecution and expulsions,until the present. As of 2019,the estimated core Jewish population in Italy numbers around 45,000.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is an Italian historical novel by Giorgio Bassani,published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini until the start of World War II.
Renzo De Felice was an Italian historian,who specialized in the Fascist era,writing,among other works,a 6000-page biography of Mussolini. He argued that Mussolini was a revolutionary modernizer in domestic issues but a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies of Italy from 1861 to 1922. Historian of Italy Philip Morgan has called De Felice's biography of Mussolini "a very controversial,influential and at the same time problematic re-reading of Mussolini and Fascism" and rejected the contention that his work rose above politics to "scientific objectivity",as claimed by the author and his defenders.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a 1970 Italian historical drama war film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay by Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli adapts Italian Jewish author Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name,about the lives of an upper-class Jewish family in Ferrara during the Fascist era. The film stars Lino Capolicchio,Dominique Sanda,Helmut Berger,Romolo Valli,and Fabio Testi in his breakthrough role.
Ettore Ovazza was an Italian Jewish banker. He was an early financer of Benito Mussolini,whom he was a personal friend of,and a strong supporter of Italian fascism,. He founded the journal La nostra bandiera. Believing that his position would be restored after the war,Ovazza stayed on after the Germans occupied Italy. Together with his wife and children,shortly after the Fall of Fascism and Mussolini's government during World War II,he was killed near the Swiss border by SS troops in 1943.
Giovanni Minzoni was an Italian anti-fascist Catholic priest who was killed by a fascist squad in 1923.
The Italian racial laws,otherwise referred to as the Racial Laws,were a series of laws promulgated by the government of Benito Mussolini in Fascist Italy from 1938 to 1944 in order to enforce racial discrimination and segregation in the Kingdom of Italy. The main victims of the Racial Laws were Italian Jews and the African inhabitants of the Italian Empire.
Initially,Fascist Italy did not enact comprehensive racist policies like those policies which were enacted by its World War II Axis partner Nazi Germany. Italy's National Fascist Party leader,Benito Mussolini,expressed different views on the subject of race over the course of his career. In an interview conducted in 1932 at the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome,he said "Race? It is a feeling,not a reality:ninety-five percent,at least,is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today".
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution,deportation,and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic,the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943,during World War II.
Umberto Klinger was an aviator,Italian politician and entrepreneur.
Salama da sugo,also known as salamina da sugo,is a particular salami made of pork typical of the province of Ferrara consumed after cooking. It is recognized with the PGI and PDO designations of origin.
The Ferrara Ghetto was established by an edict of Cardinal Cennini dated 23 August 1624,in one of the oldest areas of the city,a short distance from the Cathedral of San Giorgio (Ferrara) and the Castello Estense. It was permanently closed in 1859.
The Municipal Palace of Ferrara is located in Piazza del Municipio 2. It was the ducal residence of the Este family until the 16th century,when the court moved to the nearby Castello Estense. It is the seat of the municipality of Ferrara.
The Torre della Vittoria is a historical building in Ferrara that complements the Palazzo Municipale and at the same time stands apart from it in terms of its size,its reconstruction centuries after the fall of the tower previously located in the same position,and the celebrations that explicitly referred to it in Fascist-era films. It is located on the corner of Piazza Trento e Trieste and Via Cortevecchia,at the beginning of Corso Martiri della Libertà.
The Museo Giovanni Boldini is a biographical museum,located in the Palazzo Massari,in Ferrara,dedicated to Italian painter Giovanni Boldini. It is one of the three museums located in the palace,being the others the Museo dell'Ottocento and the Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea Filippo de Pisis. The current museum has been closed for restoration work since the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes.
