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A UTOPIAN-REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTION16mo (196x140 mm). 70, [2] pp. Editor's printed wrappers (slightly worn). At pp. 21, 38 and 39 the word "Repubblica" has not been replaced with the word "Reggenza" as in later issues. Signed by the author on the front flyleaf recto: "Gabriele d'Annunzio Fiume d'Italia 1920". Some quires loose. A very good full-margined copy, partly still unopened.
First edition, printed in one hundred and ten non-commercial copies, of the full text of the "Carta del Carnaro", a visionary constitution combining the sociological and political insights of Gabriele D'Annunzio with the revolutionary spirit of Alceste De Ambris. The present volume is in the first issue, in which the word "Repubblica" ('Republic') has not yet been replaced for political reasons with the word "Reggenza" ('Regency'). The word "Repubblica" still appears on August 31 in the Fiume newspaper "Vedetta d'Italia" and on September 1 in the "Popolo d'Italia", but is corrected in the official version published,… Read More
