Portrait of a King with Constitution. Marcello Soleri and the talks with His Majesty
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v21i.4962Keywords:
Statuto Albertino, fascist monarchy, Marcello Soleri, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Kingdom of ItalyAbstract
The essay intends to enlighten the controversial nature of the Statuto Albertino – legitimate heir of the constitutions of the Restoration, ductile instrument of transition to a consolidated parliamentary democracy, or something else again? – by reconstructing the idea Victor Emmanuel III had about it, as a king who ruled Italy for almost half a century. For this purpose, Marcello Soleri's Memories are analysed and checked for accuracy. Soleri, deputy from 1913 to 1929 and minister in the Bonomi I (1921-22), Facta II (1922), Bonomi II (1944), Bonomi III (1944-45), and Parri (1945) cabinet, was in familiar terms with the king. In his Memories he reports some straightforward and strained talks with him, about the political events connected to the decline of liberal State, the rise of Fascism and its ultimate defeat. For these reasons, Soleri is a key figure to understand the flector non frangor of Italian constitutional system during fascist totalitarian escalation.
