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.
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”:
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 ”
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 ).
