1909 in Italy

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See also: 1908 in Italy, other events of 1909, 1910 in Italy.

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Events from the year 1909 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy

• Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
• Prime Minister –
  1. Giovanni Giolitti (1906–1909)
  2. Sidney Sonnino (1909–1910)
• Population – 34,455,000

Events

The poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes the Manifesto of Futurism (Italian: Manifesto del Futurismo) and initiates an artistic philosophy, Futurism, rejecting the past, and celebrating speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it also advocates the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. In February 1909 the manifesto was published in one of Europe's main newspapers, Le Figaro.^[1]

• March 7 – First round of the Italian general election.
• March 14 – Second round of the Italian general election. The "ministerial" bloc of the Historical Left led by Giovanni Giolitti remains the largest in Parliament, winning 329 of the 508 seats. The Historical Right loses its important position and is replaced by the Radical Party of Ettore Sacchi, who becomes an ally of Giolitti, and the Italian Socialist Party of Filippo Turati, which continues its strong opposition to the government.
• December 11 – Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti resigns and is succeeded by Sidney Sonnino.

Sports

• April 4 – Luigi Ganna wins the 3rd Milan–San Remo bicycle race.
• April 25 – F.C. Pro Vercelli 1892 wins the 1909 Italian Federal Football Championship.
• May 2 – Francesco Ciuppa wins the 1909 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.
• May 13–30 – The first Giro d'Italia is organized by La Gazzetta dello Sport to increase sales of the newspaper. The Italian rider Luigi Ganna of the Atala team wins the stage bicycle race.
• June 6 – Juventus wins the 1909 Italian National Football Championship.
• November 7 – Giovanni Cuniolo wins the 5th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.

Births

• April 22 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
• April 22 – Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist (d. 2001)
• October 18 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher of law and political sciences (d. 2004)

Deaths

• October 19 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (b. 1835)

References

1. Clark, Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, p. 209

• Clark, Martin (2008). Modern Italy: 1871 to the present, Harlow: Pearson Education, ISBN 1-4058-2352-6