Caffè Giubbe Rosse

Caffè Le Giubbe Rosse is a café on the Piazza della Repubblica (13 - 14r ), Florence. The name comes from the red jackets that still bear the waiter on the Viennese model today. Because the Florentines the correct pronunciation of the name of the German founder ( Reininghausstraße ) was hard, they arranged to simply " at the Redcoats ( giubbe rosse ) ". The name became common in and eventually became the official name of the café. Another interpretation but also sees this as an allusion to the camicie rosse, the red shirts of the armed forces of Garibaldi during the Risorgimento. The red dresses color was since then as a sort of honor of the liberal Italians.

History

The café has a long standing reputation as a haven for writers and intellectuals. For Alberto Viviani Giubbe the horses was a " fucina di sogni e di passioni " ( a forge of dreams and passions ). The cafe was the place where the Futurism flourished, struggled and stretched himself, a breeding ground for ideas, projects and passions: "We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness ... We want the aggressive movement, the feverish sleeplessness, the double time, the death leap, the slap, the punch praise ... We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, and fight against the morality ... from Italy to send this our manifesto of revolutionary and flammable violence out into the world, by which we establish Futurism today, because we want to free this land from its malodorous ulcer of professors, archaeologists, Cicerone and antique dealers ".

Poets such as Ardengo Soffici, Giovanni Papini, Eugenio Montale, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giuseppe Prezzolini and many others met and wrote in this literary café, the focal point of Italian literature at the beginning of the 20th century.

Newspapers like Solaria and Lacerba come from the writers who visited the cafe. Giubbe Rosse was the brothers Reininghausstraße founded in early 1900 by two Germans, and is now owned by Fiorenzo Smalzi, the Italian poetry out there.

Piazza della Repubblica

Interior