arditismo
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ardito (“bold, daring, adventurous”) + -ismo (“-ism”, suffix denoting a system of thought).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arditismo m (plural arditismi)
- (historical, sociology) a worldview—developed by some parts of Italian society after World War I—wherein life is to be devoted to risk and adventurism
- 1929 February 8, Antonio Gramsci, [untitled work]; republished as “Quaderno 1”, in Valentino Gerratana, editor, Antonio Gramsci - Quaderni del carcere [Antonio Gramsci - Notes from prison][1], volume 1, Giulio Einaudi editore, 1977, page 123:
- I comitagi, gli irlandesi, e le altre forme di guerra da partigiani devono essere staccate dalla quistione dell’arditismo, sebbene paiano avere con esso punti di contatto.
- The comitadji, the Irish, and the other forms of guerrilla war must be detached from the matter of adventurism, despite seemingly having things in common with it.
References
[edit]- arditismo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- “arditiṣmo”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, supplement 2004, UTET, 2004, page 82a