National anthem
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A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in sty
Holographic copy of 1847 of Il Canto degli Italiani, the Italian national anthem since 1946
Early version of the "Wilhelmus" as preserved in a manuscript of 1617 (Brussels, Royal Library, MS 15662, fol. 37v–38r)
Rouget de Lisle performing "La Marseillaise" for the first time
Goffredo Mameli
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Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer who was a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is famously the lyricist of "Il Canto degli Italiani"—the national anthem of Italy.
Portrait of Mameli by Domenico Induno, c. 1849
Memorial tablet at the church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome. The text states: "In this hospice poet Goffredo Mameli and many other valiant men died of wounds in defence of Rome for Italian freedom in the year MDCCCXLIX".
Luciano Campisi's grave monument to Mameli in Campo Verano, Rome, built in 1891.
"Both lyre and sword" on the stone in honor of Mameli in via Garibaldi on Rome's Janiculum Hill