On 15 August 1897, Victor Emmanuel de Savoy-Aosta, Count of Turin, clashed in a duel with Henri d’Orléans, guilty of having offended the honour of the Italian army in a newspaper correspondence from Ethiopia. In particular, the Italian wanted to safeguard the prestige of the Royal Army after Adua, which was the most serious military defeat suffered by a European army in Africa up to that time. The two governments, however, did not want to give a national character to the dispute because they were engaged in a policy of rapprochement giving years of tensions. The sword fighting Aosta-Orléans, therefore, is a paradigmatic case study to demonstrate how many different needs revolved around a duel.
Il 15 agosto 1897 Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia-Aosta, conte di Torino, si scontrò in duello con Henri d’Orléans, colpevole di aver offeso l’onore dell’esercito italiano in una corrispondenza giornalistica dall’Etiopia. In particolare, l’italiano voleva salvaguardare il prestigio del regio esercito dopo Adua, che fu la più grave disfatta militare fino ad allora subita in Africa da un esercito europeo. I due governi, però, non volevano dare un carattere nazionale alla vertenza perché impegnati in una politica di riavvicinamento dono anni di tensioni. Il combattimento alla spada Aosta-Orléans, dunque, si presenta come un caso di studio paradigmatico per dimostrare quante esigenze diverse ruotavano intorno a un duello.
Per l’onore d’Italia? Il duello tra Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia-Aosta e Henri d’Orléans
Christian Satto
2025-01-01
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On 15 August 1897, Victor Emmanuel de Savoy-Aosta, Count of Turin, clashed in a duel with Henri d’Orléans, guilty of having offended the honour of the Italian army in a newspaper correspondence from Ethiopia. In particular, the Italian wanted to safeguard the prestige of the Royal Army after Adua, which was the most serious military defeat suffered by a European army in Africa up to that time. The two governments, however, did not want to give a national character to the dispute because they were engaged in a policy of rapprochement giving years of tensions. The sword fighting Aosta-Orléans, therefore, is a paradigmatic case study to demonstrate how many different needs revolved around a duel.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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