Vol 2, No 9

Articles in this issue

• Soci Vitalizi (opens in a new tab)

  List of new life members enrolled: avv. Andrea Baragiola and cav. Luigi Poggi of Verona, comm. Ernesto De Angeli and comm. G.B. Pirelli of Milan, Principessa Ines Hercolani of Bologna, and marchese Ranieri Paolucci di Calboli, embassy secretary in Paris.
• Banchetto Sociale (opens in a new tab)

  Announcement, decided at the 1 September council session, of a banquet to mark the club's second anniversary and present Roads Section chief Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli with the medal and parchment voted him on 15 April; set for Sunday 8 November at the Ristorante Eden, 6 lire a head, registrations closing 7 November.
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the 1, 2 and 16 September 1896 council sessions: fixing the medal-presentation banquet date, approving July-August consular appointments, expelling members Ariberto Perizzi and Marco Tamburini under article 21 of the statute, authorizing the 1897 Rivista Mensile contract, approving a plan to place the first 100 signposts in 1897 under engineer Riva, voting applause for Bertarelli's Guida di Lombardia, confirming the Rebeschini printing contract, and deciding to invest life members' fees in state annuities.
• [La Regina e il Touring] (opens in a new tab)

  Untitled note that the Direzione Generale, learning of Queen Margherita's enthusiasm for cycling at the Villa Reale in Monza, sent her the club's 1896 publications via Count Gerolamo Oldofredi, gentleman of the royal household, reproducing his reply describing her keen interest and good wishes for the association.
• La Tassa sulle Biciclette (opens in a new tab)

  Correspondence disproving press rumours of a proposed government tax on bicycles, including deputy Ulisse Papa's 21 September letter denying he ever drafted such a bill and Finance Minister A. Branca's 13 September reply confirming no new tax is currently planned.
• Touring Club Svizzero (opens in a new tab)

  Announcement of the newly founded Touring Club Suisse, with the full 3 September 1896 Geneva letter formally notifying the T.C.C.I. of its constitution and listing its governing council under president Fred. Raisin.
• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  Chancellery notices on the club's membership card design, the pace of despatching the Guida di Lombardia and remaining road profiles (200 a day), a request that consuls handling local distribution notify headquarters, and the terms under which members joining from 1 October qualify for 1897 benefits and discounted 1896 publications.
• Consolato Generale (opens in a new tab)

  Eighteenth list of Consular Corps appointments from the 2 and 16 September sittings, promoting Averardo Verdesi to head consul for Perugia and naming vice-consuls across Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Umbria and the Marche.
• Sezione Strade (opens in a new tab)

  Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli previews the planned Rome-Milan touring walk for next May with three candidate itineraries via Terni and either Perugia-Todi, Spoleto-Foligno or Arezzo-Florence, reports around 4,000 copies of the Guida di Lombardia distributed, and describes the innovative route-profile diagrams (about 200 of them) being prepared for the Guida del Lazio with engineer Carlo Vanzetti.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Marelli reports the Comfort Section's reorganisation around the percentage-discount system, singles out the Albergo Italia at Brescia and the Albergo del Santuario at Saronno for special praise, and lists further discounted hotels across Lombardy and the Veneto.
• Facilitazioni (opens in a new tab)

  Notice of a 10% discount at the Acquarossa thermal baths in Val di Blenio, Swiss Ticino, further discounts at the Caffè del Commercio in Ivrea, and a recommended repairman, Valentini Collarini of Trevignano (Udine).
• Sezioni (opens in a new tab)

  Report on the Milan section, the club's largest with around 1,000 members and ten vice-consuls, which has organised well-attended outings to Lecco, Bergamo, Pavia, Voghera and elsewhere (bringing in over 500 new members) and pays the 50 road-menders of its district a 5-lire gratuity each to keep cycling verges in good repair.
• Roma (opens in a new tab)

  The Rome section's 31 August night excursion to the Ristorante Eden at Ponte Molle (where a new repair-box depot was inaugurated) and its 13 September excursion to the sulphur baths and town of Palombara, followed by the section's full twelve-article regulations for club outings and a first notice of the planned Rome-Milan caravan for next May, already with 22 provisional entries.
• Firenze (opens in a new tab)

  Detailed account of the Florence section's 13 September excursion to Montevarchi via Bagno a Ripoli and San Donato in Collina, led by vice-consuls Saadun, Francolini and Mariani, with a civic welcome, a banquet at the Ristorante Tre Mori, and an invitation from cav. Libri of Pontassieve to visit his own forming section.
• Merate (opens in a new tab)

  Short reports on the Merate section's 6 September outing to Argegno and Lierna and the Besozzo section's 30 August joint excursion with the Milan section to Como, plus an editorial note deferring fuller accounts of the important Rovigo and Iseo touring rallies to the next issue for lack of space.