ABSTRACT

The article discusses the story of the armata sagapò as a war rumour, putting it in relation to three other unverified stories of the Second World War that circulated in post-war Italy, i.e. the anecdote of the Soviet dispatch number 630, the speech attributed to Churchill on the performance of the Folgore divisions at El Alamein, and the myth of Italiani brava gente. It shows that all the considered narratives were structured around a common process of ventriloquisation and, by relying on the sociological scholarship that has investigated the phenomenon of rumours, argues that the formation and circulation of these pieces of hearsay were related to the process of renegotiation of Italian identity that followed the collapse of Fascism. While doing this, the article questions the veracity of the story of the sagapò nickname putting forward a new explanation for its creation.

摘要

这篇文章讨论了战争谣言的传奇故事，并将其与战后意大利流传的第二次世界大战的其他三个未经证实的故事（即苏联编号630的轶事）相关联。丘吉尔（Churchill）就El Alamein的Folgore分区的演出以及Italiani brava gente的神话。它表明，所有被考虑的叙述都是围绕着一个通俗的通俗化过程而构造的，并且依靠对谣言现象进行调查的社会学研究，认为这些传闻的形成和传播与通婚的重新谈判过程有关。法西斯主义崩溃后的意大利身份。在执行此操作时，文章质疑sagapò昵称故事的真实性，并对其创建提出了新的解释。