Italian Esperanto Federation

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Federazione Esperantista Italiana

Founded	march, 21 1910
Type	NGO
Focus	Esperanto
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Area served	National
Members	884.....
Parent organization	Universal Esperanto Association
Website	www.esperanto.it

The Federazione Esperantista Italiana (F.E.I., Itala Esperanto-Federacio in esperanto language) is a non profit organization, that deals with the diffusion of the international auxiliary language esperanto in Italy. Its headquarters are located in Milan. Its youth section is the Gioventù Esperantista Italiana (Italian Esperantist Youth) (in esperanto Itala Esperantista Junularo, abbreviated in I.E.J.). F.E.I. also owns the esperanto.it Internet domain.

Short description

The Italian Esperanto Federation promotes in many different ways, the knowledge, use, dissemination, issues concerning the Esperanto language. This action is carried out through a series of activities including (but not limited to): Esperanto courses, both live and remotely, both electronically and by letter, conferences on various topics concerning (but not limited to) the Esperanto language, literary and poetry competitions, promotion by television, press, radio and Internet, national and international congresses and participation in national events such as the Perugia-Assisi peace march. It also promotes the exchange of collaborations between associations, especially pacifist, religious and agnostic.

History

The association was born in Florence on March 21, 1910; it was officially declared a moral entity according to the D.P.R. n°1720 of June 28, 1956 (an official decree of the Italian Government). For this reason it is eligible as a recipient of the 5‰ which Italians can donate from their income to a non-profit association.

Memberships and collaborations

The association is a national member of the Universal Esperanto Association while its youth section is member of the World Esperanto Youth Organization

Its current President is Luigi Fraccaroli (the former, for two consecutive terms from 2014 to 2020, was Michela Lipari.

Publications

• Its publishing organ is the l'Esperanto magazine.
• NSiR - Nova Sento in Rete it's another publication of F.E.I., aperiodic and only in digital form, in Esperanto and Italian, reserved for members

National and International Congresses

Every year F.E.I. organizes and manages the Italian Esperanto Congress, while its youth section, the Italian Esperantist Youth, organizes then International Youth Festival.

In 1910, F.E.I. organized and hosted in Florence the first national congress, and has been organizing them ever since.

F.E.I. organized and hosted several other World Esperanto Congresses, in 1935, in Rome the 27º World Esperanto Congress, in 1955, in Bologna the 40º World Esperanto Congress, in 2006, in Florence the 91º World Esperanto Congress and in 2023 Turin will host the 108ºWorld Esperanto Congress. On the UEA site one can find a complete list of the congresses hosted in Italy

Esperanto Language Courses

F.E.I., through its local groups, organizes a series of Esperanto language courses. These courses are generally free and include a final exam run by local members of the International League of Esperanto Teachers, with levels according to the classification of the European framework.

Since 2015, F.E.I. has also directly administered and managed a free language course via Internet and e-mail, the KIREK course, until then managed by the I.E.J., the youth section. This course, translated and adapted from a German mail course, the 'Korrespondenzkurs Esperanto' by Ulrich Becker(Berlin, 1990), is available online since 2003.

Esperanto<->Italian Dictionary

The F.E.I. site hosts and manages the most important online Italian-Esperanto dictionary with more than 50,000 Italian terms, 66,000 terms in Esperanto, for a total of more than 500,000 inflections and conjugations: hvortaro.

This electronic dictionary (with permission from the author) is derived from the huge (more than 1400 pages) Carlo Minnaja's Italian-Esperanto Dictionary.

Publishing house

F.E.I. it is also a small publishing house that publishes its own books of an informative nature or of didactic aid or general culture on and in Esperanto. A short list of examples:

• Macchiavelli, Niccolò (2006). La Princo (in Esperanto). Translated by Carlo Minnaja. FEI. ISBN 978-88-89177-68-6. Translation in Esperanto of the famous book: The Prince.
• Manzoni, Alessandro (2006). La gefianĉoj (in Esperanto). Translated by Battista Cadei. FEI. ISBN 978-88-89177-23-5. Translation in Esperanto of one of the fundamental Italian books: I promessi sposi.

. * Marček, Stano (2007). Esperanto con il metodo diretto (Esperanto with the direct method) (in Italian). Translated by Luigia Oberrauch. illustrated by Linda Marčeková. FEI. ISBN 978-80-969667-1-4. An illustrated grammar of 22 lessons. Explanations of grammar in Italian with small vocabulary attached.

• Minnaja, Carlo (2009). Lazzaro Ludovico Zamenhof (in Italian). FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-00-8. An anthology of the Esperanto inventor.
• Aguilar Solá, Pedro (2016). Corso intensivo di esperanto per allievi e autodidatti (Intensive Esperanto course for students and self-taught students) (in Italian). FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-14-5. Essential grammar with lexical notes, dialogues, exercises with solution key and small vocabulary included.
• Ungaretti, Giuseppe (2016). Vivo de Homo (in Esperanto). Translated by Nicolino Rossi; Carlo Minnaja. FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-15-2. The life and works of Giuseppe Ungaretti, of one of the most influential Italian poets of the 20th century.
• Minnaja, Carlo (2018). Historio de la Akademio de Esperanto (in Esperanto). FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-23-7.
• Astori, Davide (2018). Enkonduke al Ĝenerala Lingvistiko (in Esperanto). FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-24-4.
• Chippindale, Christopher (2018). Pado al Paradizo. Clarence Bicknell kaj la Valo de la Mirindaĵoj (in Esperanto). Translated by Humphrey Tonkin. FEI. ISBN 978-88-96582-22-0. Translation into Esperanto of 'A High Way to Heaven. Clarence Bicknell and the “Vallee des Merveilles”' by Christopher Chippindale, published in 1998. A bibliography of Clarence Bicknell, British Esperanto pioneer, botanist, archaeologist, poet and humanist.
• Piccione, Annamaria (2021). La Dia Komedio rakontata al la infanoj (in Esperanto). Translated by Carlo Minnaja. illustrated by Francesc Rovira. ISBN 978-88-96582-26-8. "The Divine Comedy told to the children", a children's version of The Divine Comedy translated from Italian, with color illustrations.

See also

• it:Movimento esperantista italiano
• List of Esperanto organizations

F.E.I. in the media

F.E.I. representatives they were often interviewed by national radio and television. Here is a short list of interventions that have appeared in the media:

• Federazione Esperantista Italiana on Rai Radio 1, (only audio) interview dated 14/03/2021.
• Rai talks about Esperanto - 10/1/2012 - video broadcast 'Spazio libero', on Rai Parlamento, with Maria Rosaria Spanò and Michael Boris Mandirola (will be President of TEJO in 2015).
• Rai talks about Esperanto - 12/6/2017 - video broadcast 'Spazio Libero', on Rai Parlamento, with Michela Lipari, Paolo Scotti, Debora Rossetti.

F.E.I. and IEJ in the press and publications

• Esperanto e chiesa cattolica (it) (Esperanto and Catholic Church) on Academia.edu.
• In due milioni parlano Esperanto (it) (Two million speak Esperanto) article of the Italian national newspaper La Repubblica.
• Il futuro dell'esperanto tra vocazione umanitaria e lingua ausiliaria (it) (The future of Esperanto between humanitarian vocation and auxiliary language) on Academia.edu.
• Minnaja, Carlo (2007). L’esperanto in Italia (in Italian). Il Poligrafo. ISBN 978-88-7115-546-3..
• Alla scoperta della lingua universale inventata per abolire la guerra (it) "To the discovery of the universal language invented to abolish war" Article appeared on 30 august, 2022 on the national Italian Left magazine.
• Brescia, 89esimo Congresso della Federazione Esperantista Italiana. Intervista a Luigi Fraccaroli (it) (Brescia, 89th Congress of the Italian Esperanto Federation. Interview with Luigi Fraccaroli) on pressenza.com.

External links

• "The organization site" (in Esperanto and Italian).
• The KIREK course web page (in IT).
• F.E.I.members reserved web site: https://www.fei-esperanto.it/
• The F.E.I page on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esperantoitalia/

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