Il Rotary International e il Distretto 2080: una storia istituzionale: con un'appendice sul Rotary e la promozione della cultura musicale

On February 23rd, 1905, the constitutive meeting of the first Rotary Club took place in Chicago. In 1922, at the Los Angeles convention, the National Association of Rotary clubs became the International Association of Rotary club, later shorten in the current Rotary International.In 1945, Rotary is invited to participate at the foundation of the United Nations and still today is consultative member of numerous supranational bodies. The first Italian Club was founded in Milan in 1923; because of the strong contrasts with the fascist regime in 1938, the Italian Rotary clubs dissolved to rebuild themselves in the aftermath of the Second World War, starting from the South, from Sicily, following the stages of Liberation.Rotary also has a conflicting relationship with ecclesiastical institutions, concerned by the growing development and dissemination of Rotary at international level.This research pays particular attention to the Rotary Foundation, whose centenary occurred in 2017, to the admission of women to Rotary and to the ceremonial where hymns featured prominently.