only french lines in dark blue will be analysed and interpreted
Du haut du mont Aventin voix ouye
Vuydez, vuydez de tous les deux costez:
Du sang des rouges sera l'ire assomie,
D'Arimin Prato, Columna debotez.
From Mount Aventine a voice is heard:
Listen, Listen, from both sides
Of the blood of the reds will the anger be calmed,
From Rimini-Prato, the Column driven away.
Analysis:
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Arimin Prato débotez Columna
| apocope of the latin word Ariminum: the italian town of Rimini on the Adriatic. Prato, town of Italy, north-west of Rimini. old french [XIIIe] repousser, to repel, to drive away latin word for colonne, column: [military} a formation extending in depth behind a narrow front. It also stands for columns of trucks, tanks. |
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During the italian Campaign, two important events occurred that would hasten the collapse of the german army:
The battle of Prato-Bologna [The Gothic Line]
The battle of Rimini [The Rimini Line]
In September 1944, the battles for the conquest of The Rimini and Gothic Lines sounded the knell of the nazi occupation of Italy. September 10, Burns gave his final instructions. His plan was as follow: the 1st canadian army corps would break through the line and attack between Rimini 85976 and the Coriano line:
[P.582] September 1944. The Rimini [D'Arimin] battle was one of the most ferocious of the Italian Campaign.
Early during that war, Rimini had been chosen as a strategic position by the enemy, and it was important for the allies to cut off the passage of supplies coming from the Adriatic Sea. September 21, 1944, after numerous battles along the Rimini Line,
the allies entered [columna debotez] the town of Rimini [previously occupied by the Germans.
These lines of defense were important bridgeheads of the german army, and numerous columns were scattered in the area, occupying strategic points along the lines, onew of them being the Gothic Line:
[P.625] On september 9, after weighing the consequences the attack of the 8th army would have on Kesselring's defense system, general Alexander confided to general Wilson: 'have decided to throw in the the 5th army that will concentrate in the centre'. The next morning, the 2nd army corps began the approach to the Gothic Line on a ten miles front extending from the Nationale 65 to Route Prato-Bologna.
[Les Canadiens en Italie - Lt. Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson]