La “dittatura sovrana” di Fiume. Innovazioni politiche, sociali ed economiche (1919-1920)

This research is meant to retrace the concrete handling of the provisional governments, namely the administrations under the Italian leadership from the end of the First World War (November 1918) to the Treaty of Rapallo (November 1920). After the evacuation of the Italian regular troops, some groups of volunteers and deserters of the Italian army, led by the military poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, captured the city of Fiume. That episode was one of the most resounding expressions of the crisis of the Italian State and of the process of sacralization of politics as well as society militarization started during the First World War. The illegal government of Fiume became the experimental laboratory of new constitutional, legislative and administrative devices, thanks to a permanent state of military unrest and constitutional exception. A part of the tested devices, especially in repressive and economic terms, restored some of the innovations introduced by the handling of the World War. Nevertheless, from another point of view, they tried to accelerate and overcome the liberal system.