Giorgio Marincola Explained

Giorgio Marincola
Birth Date:23 September 1923
Birth Place:Mahaday, Italian Somalia[1]
Death Place:Stramentizzo, Castello-Molina di Fiemme, Italy
Nationality:Italian
Organization:Giustizia e Libertà[2]
Known For:Partisan
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Mother:Aschirò Hassan
Father:Giuseppe Marincola
Awards:Gold Medal of Military Valour

Giorgio Marincola (23 September 1923 – 4 May 1945) was a Somali-Italian partisan who was killed in the last days of the Second World War. He is believed to be the only Somali to have earned the Gold Medal of Military Valour, Italy's second highest military award for gallantry.

Biography

Born in Somalia to an Italian father, Giuseppe Marincola (1891–1956), and a Somali mother, Aschirò Hassan (1901–?), he was brought to Italy with his sister, Isabella Marincola (1926-2010) in 1926 and initially sent to Calabria to live with his paternal uncle and aunt.[3] [4] In 1933, he came to Rome to live with his father and sister and began middle school. During Marincola's stay in the South, his father had married and he had two new siblings, Rita (born 1928) and Ivan (born 1929).

Legacy

On 2 October 1952, signed by decree of the Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi, Giorgio Marincola was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valour. The citation for the award reads:[5]

In the summer of 2020, in the wake of the protests triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Virginia Raggi proposed a record in the Capitoline Assembly, which was approved, to name an under construction station of the Rome Metro (later renamed) after Marincola.[6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Ihrig . Stefan . Razza partigiana: storia di Giorgio Marincola, 1923–1945 . European Review of History . August 2010 . 17 . 4 . 676–677 . 10.1080/13507486.2010.497305. 143593653 .
  2. Web site: Razza partigiana . ANPI . 25 April 2020 . it . 25 October 2010.
  3. Book: Pesarini . Angelica . Welty Tamai . Lily Anne Y. . Dineen-Wimberly . Ingrid . Spickard . Paul . Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity . 2020 . University of Nebraska Press . 978-1-4962-0663-3 . 194 . "You are the shame of the race": Dynamics of pain, shame and violence in shape-shifting processes. 10.2307/j.ctvr7fctc.10 . j.ctvr7fctc.10 . 213878743 .
  4. Web site: La storia. razzapartigiana.it. it. 2020-04-26.
  5. Web site: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana . www.quirinale.it . President of the Republic . 26 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190524145450/https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/14561 . 24 May 2019 . it.
  6. News: Raggi: "La fermata Amba Aradam della Metro C sarà intitola a Giorgio Marincola". Rory Cappelli. la Repubblica. 1 August 2020. 8 December 2021. 8 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211208133350/https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/08/01/news/roma_raggi_la_fermata_amba_aradam_della_metro_c_sara_intitola_a_giorgio_marincola_-263419893/. live. it.
  7. News: Roma, stazione metro intitolata al partigiano Giorgio Marincola: sì dell'assemblea capitolina. la Repubblica. 4 August 2020. it. 12 January 2021. 23 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210123053554/https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/08/04/news/roma_fermata_della_metro_intitolata_al_partigiano_nero_approvata_in_assemblea_capitolina_la_mozione-263729241/. live.

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