Talk:Il Canto degli Italiani

message: Maybe it would be interesting to add an english translation. Muriel Gottrop
:I was just going to say how much more welcoming that would be. Some brief notes would keep this from being a pure text dump.  "Elmo di Scipio" for example... Wetman 19:59, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the complete english translation of the anthem. --Itaguy 14:45, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: *This anthem is most frequently known as "Inno di Mameli" (26,300) or "Fratelli d'Italia" (12,600), although the official title is "Il Canto degli Italiani" (439). The present title, "La Canzone degli Italiani" (6), is a garbled version of the latter. (The numbers in brackets refer to Italian Google hits). I would like to move to "Inno di Mameli" (as in the Italian Wikipedia), but there are conflicting re-directs at present. -- Picapica 22:23, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation and sign your vote with ~~~~
*Oppose: the official name of the anthem is the name of the poem. We already have a redirect from Inno di Mameli. --Panairjdde 08:43, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See discussion -- Picapica 12:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Something bad happened. The moving request was rejected, yet a moving happened. I hope the mover would explain this, even if he/she had not even the dignity to announce the moving. I also hope this will not start a moving war, so explain your position, whoever you are.--Panairjdde 14:38, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

text: "Something bad happened" -- that is your view, P., and you are entitled to it. But what on earth does "who ever I am" have to do with anything? See also User talk:Picapica -- Picapica 17:24, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The "whoever you are" was caused by the fact that I did not know if it were you (who explained your position in the 'Discussion' section) or someone else who agreed with you and acted ignoring the negative result of the moving request, or someone else who just moved the page without reading the Talk page. --Panairjdde 10:09, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Quote (Panairjdde): the official name of the anthem is the name of the poem. The official name is, however not "La Canzone degli Italiani" but "Il Canto degli Italiani" (also, and more frequently, known as "l'Inno di Mameli"). As I understand Wikipedia policy, it is to employ as the title of the main article the most commonly used nomenclature (which may or may not correspond to an "official name"). I would, however, be prepared to accept "Il Canto degli Italiani", as being at least not an inaccuracy (which the present title is) -- Picapica 12:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: Could you elaborate? How do you interpret "hailed"? Gennaro Prota 03:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found myslef asking the same question. Hailed makes no sense, especially since the word used is definitely called. Unless anyone objects I will change this within a few days. TSO1D 19:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to change it now. But it's the latest problem this article has (have you seen "stringiamoci"? :-(). I was working, off-line, on a much expanded version but I had to stop for lack of time. Hoping to resume it at the end of the next week… —Gennaro Prota•Talk 00:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok I changed hailed to called. Good luck on the rest. TSO1D 14:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: ::Quote (Panairjdde): the official name of the anthem is the name of the poem. The official name is, however not "La Canzone degli Italiani" but "Il Canto degli Italiani" (also, and more frequently, known as "l'Inno di Mameli"). As I understand Wikipedia policy, it is to employ as the title of the main article the most commonly used nomenclature (which may or may not correspond to an "official name"). I would, however, be prepared to accept "Il Canto degli Italiani", as being at least not an inaccuracy (which the present title is) -- Picapica 12:04, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: In the chorus, shouldn't it be Italy has called rather than hailed? User:TheCyrus
:Could you elaborate? How do you interpret "hailed"? Gennaro Prota 03:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found myslef asking the same question. Hailed makes no sense, especially since the word used is definitely called. Unless anyone objects I will change this within a few days. TSO1D 19:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to change it now. But it's the latest problem this article has (have you seen "stringiamoci"? :-(). I was working, off-line, on a much expanded version but I had to stop for lack of time. Hoping to resume it at the end of the next week… —Gennaro Prota•Talk 00:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok I changed hailed to called. Good luck on the rest. TSO1D 14:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation

message: It says that the official version is the first verse + chorus repeated twice. However the chorus is displayed twice, so one thing has to be changed - User:Rmpfu89
:I believe the text should read the first verse repeated twice plus the chorus. When the anthem is performed, the first part is repeated twice (with a different melody each time), and then the chorus is sung. TSO1D 00:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The chorus is not repeated twice, the WHOLE chorus is just that. The article is correct, because it saids the chorus as it should be.86.163.88.124 (talk) 16:35, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated twice... 

message: After more than I year, I think it's time to open a new debate about moving this page to a more proper place. In fact, nobody in Italy calls their national anthem this way, although this is its official title. Neither it does the official website of the Italian President. The common de facto title is Fratelli d'Italia. The same goes for the Swedish national anthem, whose official title is 'Sång till Norden' but it's everywhere know as 'Du Gamla du Fria', including here on Wikipedia. --Fertuno 13:28, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  While we're at it, let's also move Star Spangled Banner to That baseball song. --NEMT 05:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You clearly don't know what are you talkin about. Nobody call the Italian national anthem "Il canto degli Italiani" in Italy. They just call it "Fratelli d'Italia", so the article should definitely be moved.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.97.35.70 (talk) 15:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving "Il canto degli Italiani" to "Fratelli d'Italia" 

message: Mercenary swords, 
they're feeble reeds. 
The Austrian eagle 
Has already lost its plumes. 
The blood of Italy 
and the Polish blood 
Was drank, along with the Cossack, 
But it burned her heart.
And the lyrics, far from being universal, refer to some very specific episodes in Italian history that may have less meaning to some in the present age.''
How is that last strofe being part of Italy's history? Apart from the Austrian perhaps. Mallerd 16:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Austria do not use mercenary in that time. Polish soldiers fight in Italy with the Italians against the Austrian: in Polish Anthem there is a passage about this.--Vu Duc Thang (talk) 20:34, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last 

message: The controversy section has no sources?  Who says the music is poor?  Is there any actual activist movement to change the anthem?  If not, then perhaps this section should be deleted altogether. Inkan1969 14:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No one has defended the Controversy section yet.  Then if no one cares, I'm going to delete this section, as it cites no sources.  Inkan1969 (talk) 15:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ghepeu, why did you restore this session without posting anything in the discussion?  In the history, you say that you still have no sources but "you know it's true".  Can that really be good enough for wikipedia? Inkan1969 (talk) 02:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, please. There're things that are well known: in Italy everybody (or at least everybody with a little interest in the history of the Republic) knows that the Inno di Mameli was initially adopted temporarily, I remember personally  that in the 80s and in the first half of the 90s nobody really liked it and it was played essentially before the football matches. I remember a number of substitution proposals, I remember that ten years ago nobody knew the lyrics and a number of newspapers editorials complained about this and in a occasion (Republic Day?) someone distributed leaflets with the lyrics to help people sing it. It's just that these are not things that you can easily find with a quick search with google. But they're true nonetheless. GhePeU (talk) 11:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I don't live in Italy, so I wouldn't know about this.  en.wikipedia.org is not just for Italian residents ( actually, it might not even be for Italian residents in the first place as it.wikipedia.org is the Italian language version ).  So a non-Italian who wanted to learn about the anthem would read that paragraph and go "What are they talking about?", since the paragraph has no hard facts or context.  The paragraph reads like a personal opinion to someone not intimate with Italian culture.  I really think this paragraph needs to be rewritten in a more fact based manner.  Is there anyone out there from Italy who can back up Ghepeu's assertions at least? Inkan1969 (talk) 15:33, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

text:  Sorry, I didn't see your new citation until now.  Thanks, Ghepeu. Inkan1969 (talk) 15:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Ghepeu, there were a lot a law proposals to change the anthem (many of them with Va, pensiero). None of them went through though. --89.97.35.70 (talk) 22:15, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I am old enough, and raised in Italy, to know a lot about the controversy; a quick google search retrieved these two links (in Italian): https://books.google.ca/books?id=3YR8BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=portobello+inno+nazionale&source=bl&ots=1JngOa3Kum&sig=rfsSGfGY7i1oPFsJhhumLj1jYrY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC0Mil37fbAhUD9YMKHVGJAXMQ6AEIQTAE#v=onepage&q=portobello%20inno%20nazionale&f=false and http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/leterno-duello-col-verdiano-va-pensiero-1462903.html. In the early 80ies, there was a popular movement to replace the anthem, which included a proposal during a famous Italian TV show Portobello, where people could call in to express their vote. Interestingly, I remember a poll saying that Italians are split 50-50: 100% of women want to keep the current anthem, and 100% of men want to replace it. It should not be difficult to find because it was the Italian institute of statistics that published that. 24.212.128.6 (talk) 14:59, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete Controversy section? 

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message: An anonymous user (variously recorded as , ,  and ) has removed syntactic gemination I added in bevé, col cosacco just because there is a comma there. The point is, of course it does not occur when there is a pause, but while a pause always occurs in regular speech prosody, things work differently for poetry, where the occurrence of syntactic doubling depends on whether a certain pause is realized or not while reciting. Since I’m not going to engage in this edit war again, please someone solve this.  イヴァンスクルージ九十八（会話） 12:24, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Since it is a hopping IP, you could always request page protection at WP:RFPP. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 13:32, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: So it was protected for a couple days. The IPs messaged me: The page about "syntactic gemination" in the section Exceptions: it does not occur ifa pause is on the boundary of word in question (A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian); it even makes an example where there is a pause even if there is no comma, while in the case of "bevé, col cosacco" there is the comma clearly indicating a mandatory pause. If you want to hear the song, search "FRATELLI D'ITALIA - National Anthem of Italy (complete)" on YouTube and go to 3:35. Tell me if you hear [beˈvekkol koˈzakko] or [beˈve:kol koˈzakko]. By the way, I am not "hopping IPs", I have a dynamic IP and I am using an Internet key, so every time i turn it off I change it, but I have not used this to bypass rules or to hide myself, I have always been recognisable." It is still a hopping IP as it the IP changes. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 15:34, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well let’s just ignore (s)he did not even come message me, but another user. First, I have trouble opening the page (s)he used as a reference. Second thing, even listening to the video (s)he was referring to, I can easily encounter similar things such as  in place of . That’s because Italians are usually not trained in regards to syntactic gemination; also, that is operatic singing, in which as far as I know consonant length is not dogmatically respected. Indeed, I can hear  and , too.  イヴァンスクルージ九十八（会話） 16:11, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

text: You know what? What is pointless is all of this. Do as like, in a couple of days the protection is expiring and I am tired of trying to convince you of something I cannot find proper sources about, neither in favor nor against. Bye.  イヴァンスクルージ九十八（会話） 17:39, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, right at the minute the page became unprotected he edited it. I saw at the Italian wiki they use a comma and source can be found here. As for the IPA, I'm not familiar with this case. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 15:31, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously it is spelled with a comma, but I was trying to tell them a different thing. Anyway as I already said, it is stupid and useless to carry this on because I’m not the only one who “will not listen”.  イヴァンスクルージ九十八（会話） 15:42, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bothersome editor 

message: Hi, just wanted  to say the colours in the lyric section are maybe not very encyclopedic but they are very nice I think so I would like to thank the wikipedian responsible for it :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.213.112.75 (talk) 09:32, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colours 

message: Hi.
Buon giorno.
Just changed "The Song of Italians" to "The Song of the Italians" - proper translation.
Grazie mille.
Thhings6sz (talk) 23:32, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proper translation 

message: The following sentence: "Siamo pronti alla morte", "Morte" is "Death" and not the verb "Die". I think that "We are ready for death" is the correct therm, instead of "We are ready to die".--Mhorg (talk) 11:31, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, just to let you know that while your translation is word for word correct, the expression in English is we are ready to die. Many times translating word for word is not the best way. Denisarona (talk) 14:48, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More accurate translation  

message: It became the official national anthem on 17th November 2005.
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/101986
https://www.onthisday.com/music/day/november/17
http://www.inhistorytoday.com/163834  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.82.85.42 (talk) 20:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: it:Il Canto degli Italiani#L'ufficializzazione come inno nazionale italiano: "The proposal was not followed up due to the expiry of the legislature, even if an erroneous communication was made which reported the fact that a decree-law dated 17 November had been approved. This erroneous information was later reported also by authoritative sources." · • SUM1 • · (talk) 15:11, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong date! 

message: Please note this discussion at Talk:Italy as it applies also to this article. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 11:09, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthem, best version?