Vol 1, No 2

Articles in this issue

• Ringraziamo (opens in a new tab)

  The editors thank the sporting press across Europe for its warm coverage of the club's first issue, naming Turin's Rivista Velocipedistica and Il Ciclista Veronese, Milan's La Bicicletta, Rome's La Caccia, the Paris-Vélo and Vélo of Paris, Vienna's Radfahr-Sport and Radfahrer Zeitung, the Cyclists' Touring Club's journal in London, the U.V.F.'s Bulletin Officiel, the T.C.F.'s Revue Mensuelle, and the Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund's bulletin from Graz, among many others.
• Risultato della votazione per modifica all'art. 28 dello Statuto (opens in a new tab)

  Official minutes record the ballot on amending Article 28 of the Statute: of 440 votes cast under the scrutiny of delegate T. E. Magnasco and members Arturo Dameno, Francesco Lattuada and Amedeo Tignami, 429 were in favour, 5 against and 6 blank, so the amendment carries by a large majority.
• Elezione di un membro del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Following the Article 28 vote, members are called to elect a new Council member to replace the resigning Cav. Johnson; the ballot, originally set for the last days of Carnival, is moved to 15 March at many members' request, with unsigned voting papers to be returned to the central office by that date.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of four Council sittings in January-February 1895 (23 and 30 January, 9 and 13 February), with Albrighi, Luzzatto, Venegoni, Guicciardi, Broggi, Ricordi, Magnasco, Citterio, Bertarelli, Segrè, Carugati, Bianchi, Fioroni, Gorla and Forlanini among those attending: approving a contract with Faliva for tricolour badge-tassels at 30 centesimi, a donated set of club-badge and masthead clichés from Cav. Ricordi, the club's poster design, an advertisement in the guide to the first international cycling exhibition, and postal subscription for the Rivista Mensile. Bertarelli reports progress securing cyclists' exclusive use of the left-hand avenue between Milan and Monza, and the Council pursues free circulation on Corso Vittorio Emanuele after 2pm and commissions warning plaques for hotels and mechanics from the De Andreis firm of Sampierdarena.
• Guida Itinerario del T. C. C. I. (opens in a new tab)

  Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli, head of the Roads Section, renews his appeal for correspondents to supply road-condition reports for the club's forthcoming itinerary guide, and reports local campaigns: seeking legal cyclist access to the pedestrian avenue at the Rondò di Monza, and lobbying the Milan post office and the Provincial Deputation, hoping minister Maggiorino Ferraris, himself "an intelligent cyclist," will respond favourably.
• Il permesso per il porto d'armi (opens in a new tab)

  The Legal Section, headed by Avv. Ignazio Dell'Oro, addresses the difficulty touring cyclists face carrying a revolver abroad without a foreign firearms permit, reporting that it has written to the Italian legations in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and England for guidance, and notes that in Canton Ticino carrying a revolver is tolerated in practice despite an 1865/1872 Consiglio di Stato ruling against it.
• Sezione Medica (opens in a new tab)

  The Medical Section, run by Dott. R. Segrè and Dott. G. Forlanini, thanks the many doctors and pharmacists who have offered their services to touring members, sets a standard consultation fee of 2 lire, and invites consuls to help recruit further medical volunteers in their districts, with names to be published in the next issue.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  The Comfort Section publishes its first list of hotels associated with the T.C.C.I. across some two dozen towns, including Milan, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, San Remo, Bellagio and Lecco, each offering members reduced room and board rates on presentation of the membership card, with negotiations for spa establishments still under way.
• Pubblicazioni diverse (opens in a new tab)

  The Library column launches its book-notice feature with the Brentari guides, gold- and silver-medal-winning regional guidebooks to Recoaro, Rovereto e Castello di Lizzana, the Basilica of St Anthony at Padua, Schio, Bassano, Belluno, Trento, Venice, Padua and the Trentino valleys, offered to members at a 30 percent discount through the central office.
• Carte (opens in a new tab)

  The Library column details a 30 percent discount from the Royal Military Geographic Institute on its sheet maps, recommending the 1:75,000 topographic survey of the Kingdom of Italy (No. 11, 277 sheets, begun in 1889); librarian T. E. Magnasco also thanks donors including one member for a two-volume Thomas Stevens work on cycling round the world, Carlo Tarra for a six-volume geography by E. Kant, Renzo Giuriani of Chiavenna for a Valtellina guide, and the Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund for its 1892-94 yearbooks.
• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  The Chancellery, run by A. G. Bianchi, reports that the Faliva and Debernardi firms have delivered the first batch of tricolour tassels and badges, obtainable from the central office for 1.30 lire, with postage covered by the administration.
• Sezione scientifica (opens in a new tab)

  R. Carugati's Scientific Section explains that members' technical queries were answered privately by letter rather than in the magazine, and cautions that the flood of proposed inventions, bumpers, new tyre and wheel systems, saddles, reaching the club should be treated with scepticism until proven, leaving detailed marque comparisons to a colleague's forthcoming technical review.
• Tesoreria Generale (opens in a new tab)

  Treasurer Riccardo Venegoni reminds signed-up members who have not yet paid their 5-lire annual dues to do so by 1 March or forfeit exemption from the entry tax, and announces that with membership now past 1,000, new applicants can no longer be granted that exemption at all.
• Ritratto dello Statuto (opens in a new tab)

  A reprint of Article 2 of the Statute sets out the club's eleven aims, from protecting cyclists' use of public roads and providing legal assistance and touring information, to negotiating reduced rail and steamship fares and customs exemptions, erecting road-junction signposts, publishing this monthly Rivista as its official organ, and appointing local consular representatives, alongside the 2-lire registration fee and 5-lire annual dues.
• Consolato Generale (opens in a new tab)

  The General Consulate publishes the roster of consular appointments the Council approved on 13 February 1895 on the recommendation of Capo Console Generale Cav. Pippo Ricordi: head consuls Vito Pardo (Rome) and Conte Berardo Candido Filangeri (Naples), and numerous consuls and vice-consuls across sections from Bergamo and Belluno to Palermo, Gorizia and Milan.
• Soci ammessi (opens in a new tab)

  A continuing alphabetical roll of members admitted up to 15 February 1895, several hundred names strong and drawn overwhelmingly from Milan with contingents from Bergamo, Cremona, Ravenna, Venice, Turin and Rome, closing the issue's editorial matter before the printer's colophon naming Francesco Orsi as managing editor and the Tipografia F.lli Rivara of Milan as printer.