| Ref No | WIA GC/28816 |
| Title | Panconcelli-Calzia, Giulio to Warburg, Aby 06/08/1915 |
| Writer | Panconcelli-Calzia, Giulio |
| Institution1 | Phonetisches Laboratorium des Seminars für Kolonialsprachen |
| Place1 | Hamburg |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Place2 | Hamburg |
| Date | 06/08/1915 |
| Format | typescript |
| Contents | covering letter for a copy of Panconcelli-Calzia's official report to the Rektor of the university on his last trip to Italy;report on Panconcelli-Calzia's stay in Rome from 24/03/1915 to 19/04/1915:he was busy with distributing 'Rivista Illustrata'; on his conversations with [Paul Gustav] Hübner and Professor [Pietro Silvio] Rivetta; 'Rivista' should be on sale in every city in Italy; they also sent copies of both issues to priests and teachers in 5000 smaller communities; they sent copies to the German consulates, embassies, to important Italian civil servants, officers etc; people liked the two issues, admired the quality of the reproductions; Fürst von Bülow liked 'Rivista Illustrata' very much and ordered additional copies; Calzia was also involved in producing other periodicals; 'Italia Nostra', published by university teachers, is in financial difficulties; Calzia would have liked to give money to Professor [Cesare] De Lollis, the director of the paper, but he refused to accept any; Calzia then made a donation of Lire 200, using money which Warburg has put at his disposal; the journal 'La guerra e l'Italia', started by Warburg and Calzia, edited by [Domenico] Gnoli, [Pietro Silvio] Rivetta and [Adriano] Tilgher, was very successful; an article by Benedetto Croce was published in its first issue; 'Tribuna' started to print articles by Rivetta; Calzia had spoken to a friend of his, a cartoonist working on the journal 'Travaso', who agreed to work for Calzia before the political situation had changed; pictures, distributed by Berlin, could even by published in papers which are normally anti-German, 'Corriere della Sera', 'L'Illustrazione' and 'La Stampa'; he found that the majority of Italians were against war, but anti-German demonstrations were orchestrated by the government; Calzia also tried to find a publisher for the [Otto Bodenstein] book on the true reasons for the war; the publisher Laterza declined outright; Rivetta then agreed to have it published under his name; Rivetta would have been editor and translator of the book and would have negotiated with an Italian publisher like Bocca Brothers in Turin; the project had to be aborted once war was declared |
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| DS/UK/1474 | Bülow; Bernhard H.M.K. Fürst von (03/05/1849-28/10/1929); Dr.hc. | 03/05/1849-28/10/1929 |
| DS/UK/1590 | Hübner; Paul Gustav (29/06/1888-); Dr. phil. | 29/06/1888- |
| DS/UK/2076 | Rivetta; Pietro Silvio (08/07/1886-01/07/1952); Conte | 08/07/1886-01/07/1952 |
| DS/UK/1558 | Panconcelli-Calzia; Giulio (04/10/1878-25/10/1966); Prof. Dr. phil. | 04/10/1878-25/10/1966 |