Vol 3, No 2

Articles in this issue

• Per la Gita Roma-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Circular from the Direzione Generale asking all Capi Consoli, Consoli and Vice-Consoli to coordinate any group rides converging on Milan with Rome's organizing committee (via Arturo Magagnini, Via Castelfidardo 34) ahead of the May Rome-Milan cycling rally, to avoid overcrowding lodging and food in small stopover towns.
• Tesoreria (opens in a new tab)

  Treasurer Riccardo Venegoni reminds members the L. 5 annual fee is due by 31 January (Statute art. 15), with collection from April switching to the Corriere di Città in Milan (L. 5.20) or postal order elsewhere (L. 5.55).
• Deliberazioni del Consiglio (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of four Council sittings in February 1897: a memorandum against Milan's proposed municipal cycle tax, an invitation to an international touring congress in Holland, the Lazio guide's printing completed, road-profile reprint contracts, and a resolution to compile a full membership list for electoral committees and industrialists against a fee.
• [Promemoria del T.C.C.I. al Sindaco di Milano sulla tassa di circolazione ciclistica] (opens in a new tab)

  Full text of the memorandum presented to Milan's mayor on 10 February 1897 by Johnson and Riva, arguing the proposed L. 15 cycle tax is disproportionate against Rome's L. 6 and Turin's L. 10 and against French (10 fr.) and Belgian (12 fr.) rates, proposing a L. 6 ceiling and six concessions in return, including free circulation on Corso Venezia and in the Parco and a 30-day exemption for visiting cyclists.
• La Guida regionale del Lazio (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli reports the Lazio regional guide now going out to members at 400 copies a day, with promised contributor copies already dispatched and any omissions to be corrected on request.
• La Guida regionale del Veneto (opens in a new tab)

  Progress report on the Veneto guide: the region divided into 26 zones and about 1,300 routes, roughly 400 manuscript pages of topographical description largely complete, some 7,000 road questionnaires circulated, and a probable three-volume, 15,000-copy print run.
• La Guida delle Grandi Comunicazioni di Sicilia (opens in a new tab)

  Announces a forthcoming supplement covering Sicily's main roads, listing routes such as Messina-Catania-Siracusa, Palermo-Trapani-Marsala and Caltanissetta-Girgenti, to be sent free to all members as earlier mainland additions were.
• I nuovi Profili (opens in a new tab)

  Lists road profiles 19-24 (Fossombrone-Gualdo Tadino through Frosinone-Ceprano-Capua) in active preparation, personally verified by Bertarelli in early February despite disastrous weather, due ready in April.
• Per la Roma-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Announces a special edition of the new road profiles for the Rome-Milan rally, marked with the stopping and overnight points for participating riders.
• Una Bibliografia touristica (opens in a new tab)

  Bertarelli describes compiling an international touring bibliography (guidebooks, itineraries, timetables, phrasebooks) for the forthcoming 1897 Annuario, alongside a 2,000-copy reprint of the Lombardy guide with a new 4,500-entry index by Osvaldo Fioroni and a further 5,000-copy reprint of the Grandi Comunicazioni guide.
• Cancelleria (opens in a new tab)

  Chancellor A. Provasoli asks members to report address changes promptly and quote their membership number in correspondence, and warns that publication dispatches will be suspended for members who have not yet paid the L. 5 annual fee or the L. 2 registered-postage supplement.
• Consolato Generale. Ventiduesimo Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Twenty-second list of Consular Corps appointments approved by the Council between November 1896 and January 1897, naming new Capi Consoli, Consoli and Vice-Consoli across Italy, plus resignations and transfers including Vito Pardo's Rome consulate.
• Sezione Movimento. Dogane (opens in a new tab)

  Reports the Direzione delle Gabelle's refusal to let cyclists cross the Italian frontier outside customs-office hours or waive the lead-seal requirement, discusses workaround crossings such as the Simplon at Gondo/Iselle and the Petit-Saint-Bernard at Séez/La Thuile, and welcomes a French decree now carrying bicycles as free railway luggage.
• Sezione Comfort (opens in a new tab)

  Lists hotels and restaurants newly affiliated between 20 January and 20 February 1897, then sets out, comparing with the much larger Touring Club de France's terms, the obligations affiliated innkeepers owe members: cordial treatment, the agreed discount, free machine storage, touring information and the T.C.C.I. plaque displayed outside.
• Sezione Medica. 2.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Second published roster of the club's affiliated doctors by province, from Grosseto and Livorno to Milano and Modena.
• Assicurazione contro gli Infortunii Ciclistici (opens in a new tab)

  Repeats the five accident-insurance tiers open to members and, noting two serious cycling accidents in Milan earlier that month to uninsured members, urges members to take out cover before the spring riding season.
• Servizio terme, bagni, stazioni climatiche, farmacie (opens in a new tab)

  Invites the Consular Corps to negotiate discounts with pharmacies, spas and climatic resorts in their districts, favouring those run by members, capping participating pharmacies per town, and offering a diploma and free advertising in the Rivista and Annuario to those who take part.
• I Cavalieri del Bistori (opens in a new tab)

  Italian translation of an article from the Revue du Touring Club Suisse praising the T.C.C.I.'s medical corps, nicknamed the "Knights of the Scalpel," as a model for the newly founded Swiss Touring Club's own doctor network; notes Italy's corps already numbers more than 700 doctors, one per mandamento, credited to Remo Segrè and Piero Favari.
• Regolamento per le Gite (opens in a new tab)

  Milan section's eleven-point rules for club outings: rides led by at least three Consulate members, riders split into squads of ten under a Vice-Console, no overtaking the squad leader, meal sign-up 24 hours ahead with a 50-centesimo late fee, and no refund for a missed or shortened excursion.
• Adunanza Sociale (opens in a new tab)

  Bologna section's first general meeting, 1 February, at the Circolo degli Impiegati Civili with over seventy members present, chaired by consul Carlo Sandoni, who read apologies from regional head consul Olindo Guerrini and announced consul Bacialli's resignation through bronchitis in favour of Antonio Pezzoli.
• Gita Bologna-Milano (opens in a new tab)

  Bologna's consulate announces a two-day, roughly two-hundred-kilometre rally to Milan for the May national gathering, with a L. 5 enrolment fee and L. 15 attendance fee payable in instalments, continuous free medical and mechanical service, baggage transport and a commemorative medal.
• Candidati (opens in a new tab)

  List of new candidate members enrolled between 20 January and 20 February 1897, spanning cities from Trieste and Gorizia to Catania, Naples and abroad (London, Vienna, Zurich).
• Soci individuali dell'U.V.I. passanti al T. 2.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Second list of individual Unione Velocipedistica Italiana members transferring into the Touring club, drawn mainly from Turin, Trieste and Alessandria.
• Soci del Veloce Club di Mestre (opens in a new tab)

  First roster of members of the Veloce Club di Mestre joining the Touring club.
• Società Andrea Loria di Genova (opens in a new tab)

  Second list of members of Genoa's Società Andrea Loria joining the Touring club.
• Soci del Veloce Club Veneziano 2.° Elenco (opens in a new tab)

  Second roster of members of the Veloce Club Veneziano joining the Touring club.
• Società Ciclisti Veneziani (opens in a new tab)

  First roster of members of the Società Ciclisti Veneziani, almost entirely resident in Venice.
• Società Cairoli di Verona (opens in a new tab)

  First roster of members of Verona's Società Cairoli joining the Touring club.