La Nazione is one of the oldest regional newspapers in Italy

Italy

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. It merged with Cavour's famous political newspaper, Il Risorgimento

Il Risorgimento

Il Risorgimento was a liberal, nationalist newspaper founded in Turin 15 December 1847 by Count Camillo Benso di Cavour and Cesare Balbo, who was a backbone of the "neo-Guelph" party that saw in future a rejuvenated Italy under a republican government with a papal presidency—ideas with which...

, in 1849. Based in Florence, Italy, it is published in numerous local editions for the regions of Tuscany

Tuscany

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, Umbria

Umbria

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 and for the Province of La Spezia

Province of La Spezia

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 in Liguria

Liguria

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.

Journalists

• Giuseppe Are (1930–2006), historian.
• Umberto Cecchi, journalist.
• Zeffiro Ciuffoletti, historian and columnist.

Directors

• Leopold Cempini: July 14 to August 9, 1859
• Alessandro D'Ancona: August 10, 1859 to April 30, 1860
• Piero Puccioni: from May 1, 1860 to 11 January 1869
• Raymond Brenna: from January 12 to September 1, 1869
• Giuseppe Civinini: October 16, 1869 to December 19, 1871
• Celestino Bianchi: December 31, 1871 to June 29, 1885
• Niccolò Nobili: July 1, 1885 to October 17, 1893
• Augusto Barazzuoli: October 18, 1893 to January 31, 1894
• Vico Mantegazza: February 1, 1894 to June 15, 1898
• Ettore Bernabei: June 16, 1898 to December 31, 1906
• Silvio Ghelli: August 15, 1910 to November 6, 1914
• Gustavo Nest: November 17, 1914 to March 9, 1915
• Aldo Borelli: March 10, 1915 to August 31, 1929
• Charles Scarfoglio (political director from 1919 to 1924)
• Umberto Guglielmotti: September 1, 1929 to October 10, 1932
• Maffio Maffii: 11 October 1932 to July 27, 1943
• Bruno Micheli: July 28 to August 17, 1943
• Charles Scarfoglio: from August 18 to September 16, 1943
• Ridolfo Mazzucconi: from 17 September to October 18, 1943
• Mirko Giobbe: From October 19, 1943 to 11 August 1944 [1]
• Suspended by a resolution of the Allied Command in Italy August 12, the publications were resumed in 1947 with the headline "The Italian nation"

• Julius Caprin: March 27, 1947 to October 31, 1950
• Sandro Volta: November 1, 1950 to March 31, 1952
• Panfilo Gentile: from April 1 to October 31, 1952
• Bruno Micheli: November 1, 1952 to January 3, 1953
• Alfio Russo, from January 4, 1953 to October 13, 1961 (in 1959, the newspaper resumed his original name)
• Enrico Mattei: October 14, 1961 to June 20, 1970
• Domenico Bartoli: June 21, 1970 to March 6, 1977
• Alberto Sensini: since March 17, 1977 to 11 October 1980
• Gianfranco Piazzesi: 12 October 1980 to November 17, 1981
• Piero Magi from 18 November 1981 to March 3, 1985
• Tino Neirotti: March 4, 1985 to November 29, 1986
• Arrigo Petacco: 30 November 1986 to November 16, 1987
• Roberto Ch'un: from 17 November 1987 to November 19, 1988
• Roberto Gelmini: 20 November 1988 to December 17, 1991
• Gabriele Canè: 27 December 1991 to May 13, 1995
• Riccardo Berti: May 14, 1995 from 11 December 1997
• Andrea Biavardi: from 12 December 1997 to November 29, 1998
• Umberto Cecchi: 30 November 1998 to April 17, 2002
• Francis Carrassi: from 18 April 2002 to November 29, 2008
• Joseph Mascambruno: from 6 December 2008 - in office

The 150th anniversy of its creation

The 150 years since the foundation (an age which, not only in Italy, but also worldwide has been achieved by very few competitors) has been recalled by a special stamp issued by the Italian post office. In addition to a special issue was organized series of conferences that have enhanced the role of Bettino Ricasoli

Bettino Ricasoli

Bettino Ricàsoli, 1.º Barone Ricàsoli, 1.º Conte di Brolio was an Italian statesman.-Biography:...

when the foundation of the newspaper.

It has also produced a commemorative book at newsstand in January 2009, and a deluxe version in bookstores. The book, written by the historic signing of The Nation has been enriched by Maurizio Naldini pictorial performed by Luca Parenti, Marco Innocenti. The volume is divided into three parts, introduced by four professors and historians: Zefiro Ciuffoletti, Cosimo Cecchi and Sandro Rogai. A summary of this book have been printed 20 local cases, attached to the journal in different areas of diffusion, which follows the life of the everyday in relation to the city treated and re-reads a file that the development of advertising from 1859 to the present day in the newspaper founded Florentine by Bettino Ricasoli.

Among the other conventions of particular interest that will play on the future of agricultural resources and food that will feature theFoundationOld New Land, a youth association recently born in Florence between young teachers of the historical and natural materials for the study of the relationship between Earth and the needs of its inhabitants.

External links

• La Nazione Official Site