The seat of one of the district groups of Verona’s Fascist federation, named after the syndicalist Filippo Corridoni, as it appears in a postcard of the late 1930s: brick, white plaster, tall arches and a roof terrace.
At a glance
In the 1930s the Fascist party in the larger Italian cities was organised in gruppi rionali, district groups, each with its own building and its own name. This one, in Verona, was named after Filippo Corridoni (1887-1915), the revolutionary syndicalist and interventionist killed on the Carso in October 1915, whom the regime turned into one of its heroes. The only document we have found of the building is the postcard reproduced here, from the collection of Stefano Vigolo, who located it at Corso Venezia 4, on the eastern side of the city beyond Porta Vescovo.
Key facts
- Name: Gruppo Rionale Filippo Corridoni, as written on the building and in the caption of the postcard
- Date: 1937-38 — the building carries the fasces with the inscription XVI E.F., the sixteenth year of the Fascist era, which ran from 29 October 1937 to 28 October 1938
- Address: Corso Venezia 4, Verona, as located by the contributor
- Architect: not known to us
- GPS: 45.43905, 11.01553 · Open in Google Maps
History
The date comes from the building itself. On the corner of the tall block, next to the fasces, the postcard shows the inscription XVI E.F.: year sixteen of the Fascist era, counted from the March on Rome, that is between the end of October 1937 and the end of October 1938. We have not found the name of the architect, the date of the inauguration or the later history of the building. According to the contributor the building still stands, under another name; we have not yet been able to verify how it looks today.
What the postcard shows
A two-storey building of brick and white plaster on an open, unpaved square. On the left, the block with the entrance: a tall white portal reached by a flight of steps, with four round openings above the door, and on the upper floor the words GRUPPO RIONALE FILIPPO CORRIDONI. On the right, a longer block with three tall arched recesses in a white frame, and on its corner, set into the brick, the fasces with XVI E.F. Above, an open frame of pillars and beams marks a roof terrace, pierced by a round opening. A low brick wall with round openings closes the courtyard, and a tall flagpole rises behind.
Do you know more?
On this page we have published what can be seen and what we were able to verify. About the history of this building, its architect and how it looks today we could not find a reliable source. If you know something — a name, a date, the architect, the family who lived there, an old photograph, a document, a book that mentions it — write to Sofia, who looks after these pages.
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Sources
- Period postcard, Verona – Sede Gruppo Rionale Filippo Corridoni, collection Stefano Vigolo: the building, its name and the inscription XVI E.F.
- The address, Corso Venezia 4, as indicated by the contributor
- Filippo Corridoni (1887-1915): Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
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