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In instauratum imperium - 1937

AUTHOR
Genovesi, Vittorio
THEMES/GENRES
Abyssinia Benito Mussolini Catholic Church Colonization Empire City of Rome Poetry Lyrical poetry
INTRODUCTION

In instauratum imperium is a poem in Sapphic stanzas that Genovesi wrote in 1936 to celebrate the conquest of Ethiopia and the foundation of the Fascist Empire in Oriental Africa. This poem exalts the regime’s colonial success, Mussolini, Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956), and Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955). Genovesi praises Fascism because it fulfills, in his view, the civilizing mission that Rome must carry out by bringing Christian faith to the people of the earth (see vv. 81-100, 121-132). In instauratum imperium was first published in Genovesi (1937) and then in Genovesi (1942a: 28-35), but was excluded from Genovesi (1959). 

 

Bibliography

Latin texts

Genovesi, Vittorio. 1937. ‘In Instauratum Imperium’, Alma Roma 24 (7): 115-116.

———. 1942a. Carmina patriae. Rome: Messaggero del Sacro Cuore. 


Other works of the author

———. 1959. Victorii Genovesi Carmina. Curante Instituto Romanis studiis provehendis. Rome: Desclée et socii.


Secondary sources

Abrate, Giuseppe. 1940. ‘Poeti latini dell’era fascista’, Roma. Rivista di studi e di vita romana 18 (9): 304-309.

Binnebeke, Xavier van. 2020. ‘Hoeufft’s Legacy: Neo-Latin Poetry in the Archives of the Certamen poeticum Hoeufftianum(1923–1943)’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism. Edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse and Valerio Sanzotta, 245-325. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press

Corallo, Maria. 1945. La poesia latina di Vittorio Genovesi. Milan: Vita e Pensiero. 

Lamers, Han and Reitz-Joosse, Bettina. 2016. ‘Lingua Lictoria: the Latin Literature of Italian Fascism’, Classical Receptions Journal 8 (2): 216-252.

Sacré, Dirk. 2020. ‘The Certamen Hoeufftianum during the ventennio fascista: An Exploration (With Unpublished Poems by Vittorio Genovesi and Giuseppe Favaro)’. In Studies in the Latin Literature and Epigraphy of Italian Fascism, edited by Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, and Valerio Sanzotta, 199–241. Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 46. Leuven: Leuven University Press.


  

Nicolò Bettegazzi

IN INSTAURATUM IMPERIUM
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Imperî primum modulata cantum,
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iamdiu cessans, iterum modorum,
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Musa, festina docilis Latinum
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tangere plectrum.
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Iure praeclarum facinus nepotum
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Virgilî grandi celebramus ore,
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remque Romanam modo restitutam
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carmine Flacci.
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Ecce victrices Capitolî ab arce
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praepeti notas aquilae volatu
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Africae fausto petiere rursus
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omine terras.
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Invidae circum stupuere gentes
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gesta priscorum renovata patrum,
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dira nequidquam minitante nobis
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damna Geneva.
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Gaudet adversis animosa virtus,
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fortium vires acuit periclum,
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latior rebus quoque nostra fulsit
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gloria in arctis.
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Aera dant signum! Sonitu resultant
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vertices, valles patulique campi,
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littus apricum triplicisque ponti,
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oppida et urbes.
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Surgit extemplo generosa pubes,
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virgines, matres, humiles, potentes,
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concrepat clamor simul unus ingens:
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– Adsumus omnes! –
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Verba vocalis Ducis unda ad oras
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extimas mundi per inane vectat:
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diditi terris fremuere Etrusco
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sanguine creti.
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Protinus parent Patriae vocanti
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arma poscentes Italae cohortes;
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ardor his idem: per acuta belli
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carpere laurum.
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Alpibus canis Siculisque ab actis,
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dissitis terris utriusque caeli
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advolant fortes, humeros nigranti
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tegmine amicti.
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Iam moras rumpunt: ululant camini
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classis aeratae; fremit agmen ingens,
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littori appellit sitientis Afri
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vomere et ense.
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Impetum frustra Latiae protervus
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Aethiops quaerit cohibere gentis,
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Et Genevenses male foederati
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vociferantur.
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Dux ait: – Recta gradiemur usque,
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nescii flecti! – stetit et Latinum
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dura ceu cautes resonante tunsa
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aequore robur.
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Advenit, cernit, ruit atque vincit
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turma bellatrix: Ducis usque praesens
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inter armorum sonitum necesque
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urget imago.
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Castra procedunt, simul et probrosae
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decidunt tandem tribubus catenae,
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queis, nefas!, illas pecudum gravavit
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more tyrannus.
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Dum nigras urgent Itali catervas
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saltibus, lustris calidisque tesquis,
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fortibus supplex bene comprecatur
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Patria natis.
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Publicae augendae pia sponsa gazae,
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ferreo mutat rutilantis auri
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annulum, pignus fidei iugalis
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votaque fundit.
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O dies cantu meliore digni,
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qui decus nobis peperere tantum,
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inclitis quaevis lyra rebus actis
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deficit impar.
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Vicimus cincti cruce et ense, fratres!
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Vicimus! clamemus: – Io, triumphe!
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Impotens irae, tua rode tabens
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viscera, livor!
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Roma te mater merito, Badoli,
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laurea plaudens redimit corona,
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solvit et grates tibi, Gratiane,
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fulmina belli.
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Nox, dies longe superans coruscos,
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quae super septem rediisse signum
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imperî colles iterum fuisti
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nuncia terris!
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Te Deus iustus statuit futuram,
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quo die sanxit Laterana in aede
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pacta Dux, alma Cruce restituta
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Urbis in arce.
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O Petri sedes veneranda, salve,
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Caesarum rursus chlamydata fasta;
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iure te matrem, dominam caputque
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dicimus orbis.
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Omne nam durant tua fata in aevum,
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nempe civilis dare iura vitae,
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unico sacro sociare cunctas
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foedere gentes.
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I, triumphali redimita lauro!
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Fascium forti clipeata nexu,
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te manent sceptro nova sub Sabaudo,
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Roma, tropaea.
Chorus
101
Abs temporum caligine,
102
O Roma, salve, provido
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praedestinata Numine
104
dii ministra consilî
105
Confinis Afro littori
106
plagisque eois proxima,
107
cunctas amica copulas
108
stirpes in orbe dissitas.
109
Idcirco ab alta origine
110
frontem coronas laurea,
111
tuisque gentes legibus
112
invicta pergis subdere.
113
Nutu superno, Tibridi
114
appulsa Petri cymbula
115
arcana fata prodidit,
116
queis serviebas inscia.
117
Vallata septem collibus,
118
tantis onusta gloriis,
119
regina sidis inclita
120
orbis magistra et arbitra.
121
O Roma, salve, oracula
122
quae sacra promis gentibus,
123
arx nationum fulgida,
124
communis una patria!
125
Veri superni nuncia,
126
sceptro Sabaudo praestite,
127
priscis revincta fascibus
128
saeclo ruenti subveni.
129
Tibi favente, cingere
130
novis, Deo victoriis;
131
nil Sol queat circumvagus
132
Te maius usquam visere.
Romae, die IX m. Maii a. MCMXXXVII, ab instaurato Imperio I.
Victorius Genovesi, S. I.