Fraglia 1920 - 1928 - 2000 The Fraglia brings inside
the ancient secular history of the men of the lake. With its structure,
bridge in castle, similar to the cover of a ship, moored into the
Italian garden of the magnolias and the olive-trees to side of the Beach
of olive-trees , an isolated Mediterranean island that is developed with
the lake-front up to the hilly olive-grove of the Brione.
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Sailing is philosophy of life. The Motto of Fraglia
is "Tegneghe duro" ( hold it hard ). For the biggest part of
the persons that chooses the sail, the primary function of a boat is to
bring its crew pleasantly to amusement . Therefore the sail still before
being a sporting discipline is delight .".. to sail calm as a
silent wing it is for me of big distraction" (Byron). A most
symbolic example is given by a Greek kjlix of about 2.500 years ago: the
archeologists that discovered defined it "The pleasant trip of
Dionisio". That to the rudder there is a god or that you deal with
a deadly commune, for sure the one who is found to the edge of a boat or
ship marvelously absorbed by natural elements exploits, with very
relaxed doing, the elements of the nature. For the successes of that
ancient navigator, and probably for the greatest part of the sailors,
the boat is, and it owes being, an object of pleasure and fun. As
Francis Herreshoff says "the main function of a Yacht is to let you
have a good time" .Or to live lyric approaches as it is gathered in
the poetry of Charles Baudelaire "The man and the sea":
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Others not less known literary annotations: The smile
after the storm by Joseph Conrad "Why the men sails / if not for
these marvellous / moments of trust in himself ?". The spirit of
Sailing of Henry Walswort Longfellow " You Want, the helmsman
answered, / to know the secret of the sea? / Only the ones who faces up
its danger / understands the mystery of it". Life in deep sea by
Herman Melville "The sailor is everything truthness, / the
terrestrial everything diplomacy". The spirit of Cape Horn by John'
Masefield "Cape Horn, that maltreats beauty up to make it a
wreckage, / and rolls up the steel, and drunk to death also the strong
"
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The origins (maritime) of our city
The first
historical comparisons of exhaustive studies on the maritime history of
lake and its people, are dated with reliefs referable approximately in
the year 100 d.C. Dating has been made possible from the analysis and
translation of Latin registrations, three of them recovered in Peschiera
and three other recovered in Riva del Garda, that remembers the
existence, in imperial Roman age, of the Collegia Nautorum respectively
Veronensium and Brixianorum. Riva and its population belongs to the gens
Fabia of Brescia. These registrations represent the first documentation
of the lake navigation on the Benaco of " navicellai ":
navigators and fishermen, in imperial age.
"Fraglia della Vela" is born
The term Fraglia, coined by
Gabriele D' Annunzio, derives probably ( by assonance ) from the ancient
Venetian-istriano harbour dialect, meaning the medieval guild of arts
and works. From the medieval Latin fratalea = brotherhood. Or from the
conjunction of FRAtellanza ( Brotherhood ) and famiglia ( Family ).
