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Bella ciao

Italian antifascist folk song
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Summary

Bella ciao is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.22% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,713 views/month, #42 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: traditional folk music[3], protest song[4]
  • Commons category: Bella ciao[5]
  • Language of work or name: Italian[6]
  • Country of origin: Italy[7]
  • Publication date: 1944[8]
  • Described at URL: http://www.folkworld.eu/67/e/bella.html[9], https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/bella-ciao.html[10], https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/bella-ciao-a-brief-history-of-italys-resistance-anthem.html[11], https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music/why-it-is-impolite-to-play-money-heist-song-bella-ciao-in-italy-1.1005390[12]
  • Used by: Italian resistance movement[13]
  • Has characteristic: revolutionary song[14], traditional folk song[15], protest song[16]
  • Native label: Bella ciao[17]
  • Different from: Bella ciao[18]
  • First line: Una mattina mi son svegliato[19]
  • Last line: morto per la libertà![20]
  • Copyright status: public domain[21]
  • Form of creative work: song[22]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[23]

  • Community tags: italian, partisan[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d37ef894-29a0-3c0e-91e6-2d1d554662ff[25]

Why It Matters

Bella ciao has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Italy public domain Reinhard Heydrich

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . folkworld.eu. Retrieved . folkworld.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ig.ft.com. Retrieved . ig.ft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wantedinrome.com. Retrieved . wantedinrome.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . thenationalnews.com. thenationalnews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Bella ciao. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bella-ciao
MLA “Bella ciao.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/bella-ciao.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bella-ciao_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Bella ciao}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bella-ciao}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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