1892 in Italy

[Kingdom of Italy]

• Monarch – Umberto I
• Prime Minister –
• # Antonio Di Rudinì
• # Giovanni Giolitti

Events

March

• March 16 - Founding of the newspaper Il Mattino in Naples by Edoardo Scarfoglio and Matilde Serao.

May

• May 15 - The new government headed by Giovanni Giolitti takes office after Antonio Di Rudinì lost the vote in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, because his financial policy is opposed on both the right and the left.

June

• June 26 - Battle of Serobeti between Italy and Mahdist Sudan.
• June 29 - Founding of the section of the Fascio dei lavoratori, a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration, in Palermo by Rosario Garibaldi Bosco.

July

• 8 July - Eruption on the southern flank of the Mount Etna vulcano in Sicily. Eruptions would continue to 29 December 1892. A spectacular row of pyroclastic cones was formed named Monti Silvestri, in honour of the Italian volcanologist Orazio Silvestri.

August

• August 14 - Foundation of the Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani a forerunner of the Italian Socialist Party in Genoa by Filippo Turati, Claudio Treves and Leonida Bissolati.

September

• September 8 - Foundation of the Fascio in Corleone, which would evolve into one of the first and best-organized groups, by Bernardino Verro.

October

• October 6 - The opera Cristoforo Colombo by Alberto Franchetti premiered at Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in America.

November

• November 6 - First round of the Italian general election.
• November 13 - Second round of the Italian general election. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc emerged as the largest in Parliament, winning 323 of the 508 seats.
• November 27 - Founding of L'Asino in Rome, a magazine of political satire, by Guido Podrecca and Gabriele Galantara.

December

• December 6 - Giolitti's Treasury Minister, Bernardino Grimaldi, and Agriculture Minister, Pietro Lacava, introduce a bill aimed at providing the existing banks the right to issue currency for another six years. The close friendship of Grimaldi with the governor of the Banca Romana, Bernardo Tanlongo, increased suspicion of wrongdoing in Banca Romana scandal.
• December 20 - The Socialist deputy Napoleone Colajanni reads out long extracts of a report on the Banca Romana in Parliament and Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti is forced to appoint an expert commission to investigate the Banca Romana scandal.

Literature

• Gabriele D'Annunzio - L'Innocente
• Italo Svevo - ''Una Vita''

Music

• Alfredo Catalani - La Wally
• Francesco Cilea - La Tilda
• Alberto Franchetti - Cristoforo Colombo
• Umberto Giordano - Mala vita
• Ruggero Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
• Pietro Mascagni - ''I Rantzau''

Births

• January 2 - Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist and principal family shareholder of the Italian car company Fiat
• January 17 - Amedeo Mecozzi, Italian fighter ace of World War I and a military theorist
• January 28 - Augusto Genina, Italian film pioneer, movie producer and director
• January 28 - Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory
• February 4 - Ugo Betti, Italian judge and playwright
• February 8 - Luigi Bartolini, Italian painter, writer, and poet
• February 8 - Bruno Fortichiari, Italian communist politician
• February 29 - Leandro Arpinati, Italian fascist politician
• March 9 - Carlo Bisiach, Italian violin maker
• March 23 - Anastase Alfieri, Italian entomologist
• March 29 - Giuseppe Colosi, Italian zoologist
• March 30 - Fortunato Depero, Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer
• April 4 - Italo Mus, Italian impressionist painter
• April 10 - Victor de Sabata, Italian conductor and composer
• April 11 - Francesca Bertini, Italian silent film actress
• April 15 - Cesare Zerba, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• May 18 - Ezio Pinza, Italian basso opera singer
• June 8 - Giuseppe Campari, Italian opera singer and Grand Prix motor racing driver
• July 11 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Italian composer
• July 14 - Attilio Piccioni, Italian politician
• August 12 - Giuseppe Di Vittorio', Italian syndicalist trade unionist and communist politician also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti
• August 13 - Aldo De Benedetti, Italian screenwriter
• August 26 - Gaetano Belloni, Italian professional road racing cyclist
• October 12
• * Gilda Dalla Rizza, Italian soprano
• * Giovanni De Briganti, Italian aviator
• November 16 - Tazio Giorgio Nuvolari, Italian motorcycle and racecar driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante
• December 10 - Ettore Desderi, Italian composer
• December 11 - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Italian tenor

Deaths

• January 18 - Giovanni Maria Cornoldi, Italian Jesuit academic
• March 21 - Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer
• April 18 - Agostino Todaro, Italian botanist and politician
• May 1 - Francesco Lamperti, Italian singing teacher
• July 17 - Carlo Cafiero, Italian anarchist and champion of Mikhail Bakunin
• August 11 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician
• September 8 - Enrico Cialdini, Duca di Gaeta, Italian soldier, politician and diplomat
• October 18 - Matteo Liberatore, Italian Jesuit philosopher
• December 1 - Carlo Favetti, Italian politician and lawyer from Gorizia
• December 5 - Ciccio Cappuccio, head of the Camorra in Naples