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4) Monument to Cesare Battisti

Reggio Emilia

Local Monuments

1) WWI Memorial

2) Mon. to Victory

3) Lupa Capitolina

4) Mon. to C.Battisti

5) Concordi

6) L.Ariosto & M.Boiardo

7) Mon. to the Resistance

8) The Giant destroyed

9) Berlin wall ( Fr.)

10) Mon. to Memory

The monument is located in Reggio Emilia, in Corridoni street. It is affixed on the Hotel Posta building, in the oldest part of the historical center of Reggio Emilia. During the renovation works of the Hotel Posta and of the nearby Capitano del Popolo Palace, ended in the 1930s, the monument was probably moved to a different part of the front of the building.

The monument is a memorial tablet. It was built on 10^th of September 1916. The monument structure is on marble, with a bronze bas-relief with the portrait of Cesare Battisti. On the bronze panel there is a signature but it is illegible. The realization was promoted by the “Associazione Lega Nazionale” (a nationalist association).

The monument was built few days after the death of Cesare Battisti. The previous year, on the 25^th of February 1915, Battisti had made a speech at the Ariosto theatre, in Reggio Emilia, in favour of the intervention of Italy to the War.

Cesare Battisti was an Italian patriot, born in Trento in 1875. He was a reporter and an irredentist deputy in Wien; at the beginning of the I World War he came to Italy and enlisted in the Alpine troops; imprisoned near Mount Corno, he was hanged at the Buon Consiglio castle in Trento on the 12^th of July 1916. There he was killed by German soldiers.

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