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The room houses the most precious manuscript of our collections: the autograph original of the Canto degli Italiani (Song of the Italian people), better known as the Anthem by Goffredo Mameli. The official Italian anthem since 1946, it was sung for the first time on 10 December 1847, on the occasion of the first great patriotic demonstration of the Italian Risorgimento, when the notes of Mameli’s song resounded in the streets of Genoa and the tricolour flag of the Italian Republic fluttered in public for the first time.
Many relics of the Genoese patriot are on display, including his last letter to his mother four days before his death of gangrene on 2 July 1849, following a leg injury during the defence of the Roman Republic.