¿Quienes fueron los voluntarios? Identità, vissuto, motivazioni e linguaggi dei volontari italiani nella guerra civile spagnola

The research project aims to reconstruct the motivations , the paths of identity construction and political- ideological , the daily life and the tensions ideals, albeit in totally opposite perspective , the Italian volunteers involved in the Spanish Civil War both in the front within the Republican International Brigades in which troops sent by Mussolini in support of Franco's troops . Taking a cue from the most recent and innovative research areas of historiography Italian and Spanish, it will attempt to build a path analysis aimed at critically retrace the events and the actions of the Italian volunteers of both sides from the study of their subjectivity. Through the intersection of archival sources , in print and memoirs , we will try to deepen as the data determined by the influence of political myth , such as the Popular Front for the anti-fascists and the anti- fascists for volunteers , and served as an element of identification and cohesion for those fighters . In addition, the research aims to go beyond the point of view of officers, politicians and intellectuals to try to penetrate into the daily lives of these soldiers ( the moments of exaltation for victories and military commitment to having to relate with the difficulties and the brutality of conflict ), engaged in a foreign land in ways and for different reasons . Battle royale , which is considered a true and proper anticipation of the Second World War , the Spanish Civil War in fact represented a historical caesura of extraordinary importance on the political and cultural as to present many aspects still not clarified and to be studied on the basis of the new directions of historiography.