1932 in Italy


Events from the year 1932 in Italy.

Incumbents

Events

Economy

In 1932, the Great Depression touches its peak in Italy too. The unemployed are officially a million but the real cipher is even higher; the industrial production is 85% of the one in 1929. The fascist regime answers with a politic of dirigisme, encouraging fusions and business alliances and realizing great public Works, widely publicized but insufficient to solve the problem. The deficit of the state passes from 504 million liras to 3 billion 587 million liras.
The three main Italian shipping lines merge in the Italia Flotte Riunite.
The ICO becomes a S. A. and changes name in Olivetti S. p. A.; the direction passes from Camillo Olivetti to the son Adriano. The firm presents MP1, the first portable typewriter.

Art

Annunciazione by Alberto Savinio.
Beside the monumentalism of Marcello Piacentini, the official architect of the regime, the rationalist school flourishes too: Giuseppe Terragni begins the Casa del Fascio in Como and Giuseppe Pagano the Institute of Physic in Rome. In Milan, the BBPR studio and the estate FontanaArte are constituted.
Inauguration of the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena.
Amedeo Maiuri excavates the cave of the Sybil in Pozzuoli.

Culture

La dottrina del fascismo – by Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini, voice of the Italian Encyclopaedia.Colloqui con Mussolini – by Emil Ludwig and Benito Mussolini.Storia d’Europa nel secolo decimonono – by Benedetto Croce.Principi di scienza delle finanze – by Luigi Einaudi.Il soviet e l’anarchia – by Camillo Berneri.
Edoardo Weiss founds the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and the Italian Revue of Psychoanalysis.
First issue of La settimana enigmistica and Topolino, again now two of the most popular weeklies in Italy.

Literature

Stampe dell’Ottocento – by Aldo Palazzeschi.Singolare avventura di viaggio – by Vitaliano Brancati; the book is forbidden by the fascist censure for its erotic content.
Cesare Pavese begins its literary work, with Ciau Masin and the translation of Moby Dick.
Hermeticism is the prevailing poetic movement, with Salvatore Quasimodo and the debuting Alfonso Gatto.La casa dei doganieri by Eugenio Montale.L’el di di mort, alegher, by Delio Tessa, poems in Milanese dialect.
UTET launches the series of books for children La scala d’oro.

Literary awards

Theatre

Trovarsi – by Luigi Pirandello.L’ultimo scugnizzo – by Raffaele Viviani.
The Neapolitan De Filippo brothers get fame nationwide, thanks to the success of Natale in Casa Cupiello In the year, the company stages three new plays and seven single acts by Eduardo, beyond various pieces by Peppino and other authors.

Cinema

In 1932, the Italian cinema is, overall, in a period of stasis with 18 feature films produced and only 2 companies active. Cines under the direction of the writer Emilio Cecchi produces a series of valuable art documentaries and establishes a dubbing studio of its own. Renè Clair's A nous la libertè is the first film dubbed in Italy, with the voice of Gino Cervi.
The production is composed mostly by escapist comedies : Five to nil and Three lucky fools by Mario Bonnard, One night with you by Ferruccio Biancini, The telephone operator by Nunzio Malasomma, The last ''adventure by Mario Camerini. Besides, some films about opera and two propaganda movies exalting the bravery of the Italian people are realized.
Two films are on a higher level: The table of the poor, by Alessandro Blasetti, a dramedy about the Naples fallen noblemen and What scoundrel men are! by Mario Camerini, idyll between two commoners, a car-driver, and a saleswoman. The Camerini's film, considered a forerunner of neo-realism, makes the young protagonist Vittorio de Sica a movie star and launches the song Parlami d’amore Mariù''.
In September, Venice hosts the First International Film Festival.

Music

Maria Egiziaca and Huntingtower, by Ottorino Respighi.La donna serpente by Alfredo Casella.Pinotta by Pietro Mascagni.

Science

In Cambridge, Giuseppe Occhialini, in collaboration with Patrick Blackett, studies the creation process of the positron. 
In Genoa, Guglielmo Marconi lights by radio the Sydney Exposition in Australia.

Sport

Italian championships

Italian victories

Oddone Piazza is the first Italian boxer to compete for the world title, against William “Gorilla” Jones.

Cycling

Gold metals

At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Italy gets 12 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze metals.

Births

Deaths