Hi friends,
I'm sending you a new article I've translated. It deals with the Italian royal family, which has entered Italy after 50 years of exile abroad. Corrections are welcome. I invite you to read it for a series of reasons. first of all, it gives you some news on what is happening in Italy these days. It has been written days ago, when the Italian royal family had not entered Italy yet. However, I think it's interesting because this question has been considered by Italian journalist and the Italian public opinion a very delicate one.
Above all, you are invited to read it for your own pleasure!
Come forward, Savoia!
The Neapolitan monarchists will welcome their kings with the Italian popular song “O paese d’o’ sole” (The country of the sun), no globalization initiates will hurl tomatoes and broccoli at them. For the republicans, inspired by Mazzini’s teachings, they are unwelcome citizens and the most devoted Italian subjects long to see them among the poor and humble people. Here is all you need to know about the return of the royal family, the vexed question that is dividing Italy.
We are calling them in Geneva. The phone rings: “Mister Vittorio Emanuele is home?” we ask. A feminine, quite shocked voice murmurs: “Who? What? What do you mean? Maybe you were looking for His Majesty?” Well, they are getting started quite right! They declared they would come back as normal citizens, didn’t they? However, the prince is ill, he has got some vertebras fractured during the Pharaoh’s rally, so he must still wait a few weeks before putting his feet on the Italian soil. We have his wife on the phone. How should we call her, princess, madam, Majesty? We haven’t got a clue. “You can call me whatever you like. In Geneva, however, they call me madam, in Italy, princess”. But before we ask our questions, she responds that it would take them time to return, because of a series of bureaucratic practises and political decisions. The Italian President C. Azeglio Ciampi must put his signature to the decree issued by the Italian parliament, which puts end to the exile of the royal family. And then again, that decree must be published on the gazette, and then Vittorio Emanuele will need a good doctor to recover. But at the end, the royal family will finally be in Italy. They already figure out the moment of their arrival and the very first visit to the Pope, if he will receive them. And then, later they figure out the visits to the Italian President Ciampi and to the Premier Berlusconi, of course if they will receive them.
The question of their arrival is much more delicate than it seems. Who will be willing to receive the crown prince Vittorio Emanuele Alberto? Who will fete him? Who will avoid him? He has disappointed monarchists by swearing loyalty to the republican constitution. The Republicans on the other hand went furious at his not sufficiently convinced loyalty. He has sued his sisters, and they are no longer on speaking terms. The cause of the suit is his mother’s heritage. The European aristocracy doesn’t consider him a worthy cousin for his not really commendable conduct. Altogether journals and televisions will be racing to interview him and his most devoted subjects will not abandon him, certainly not now that he is making his way home.
“There will not be official meetings with the government” says Giovanardi, Italian minister. “I do want to see or hear Vittorio Emanuele. I don’t greet him since I saw him shooting, from his yacht, at some monkeys on a bay in Turkey” the marquise Marina Fernero says.
“We would like to live in Rome; marvellous city with so much music in the air” they say, hoping to find a beautiful house in the capital city. They are figuring out themselves on their trip home, by car, just to discover the country they have never known. Emanuele Filiberto has never been in Italy, although Italians have seen him on Tv and Maurizio Crozza taking him off quite perfectly. They are planning to go to Rome first, and then to Naples, Turin, Genoa, Venice, Trieste and so forth. They have made their intentions clear; they will also visit Ravenna, whose population voted for the Republic during the Referendum of the 1946, with more than 80% of the total votes.
for Parasha (translation help)
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Laura,
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Even if Parasha has been kind enough to help you, please don't address your request to someone in particular when posting on this forum. Everyone is free to help, on the other hand noone should feel obliged to do so.
I also remind you that you can contact a translator at www.freelang.net/translation.
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