California Italian Studies

At the hundredth anniversary of Italy’s 1911 invasion of Libya, as the effects of European imperialism continue to reverberate in Africa, it seems an especially appropriate time to reconsider the texts that helped shape the discourse of the time and to reflect on the continuing effects that they exert. It is in this context that I present an annotated translation of Giovanni Pascoli’s oration “La grande proletaria si è mossa.”