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Bettiza, a journalist who made known the peculiarities and tragedies of Dalmatia
It was his pen that defined Zadar, razed to the ground by Anglo-American bombing in the Second World War, as “the Dresden of the Adriatic”; it was his book “Esilio” (Campiello Prize 1996) that contributed to the knowledge among the general Italian public of multi-ethnic Dalmatia and the exodus of the tormented Italian community that also involved his family; it was his direct knowledge in his native Split of Tito’s ferocious communism that led him into politics with staunchly anti-communist positions, first in the Liberal Party and then in Craxi’s Socialist Party: this and much more was Vincenzo Bettiza, journalist, writer and politician who died at the age of...
Farewell to Enzo Bettiza
Journalism in mourning for the death of Enzo Bettiza. La Stampa, where he was a columnist and political commentator, announced it. He was 90 years old. Bettiza was born in Split in 1927. After starting out at the weekly Epoca, he was a correspondent for La Stampa from Vienna and Moscow, between the 1974s and 1983s. He then moved on to Corriere della Sera, where he worked, always as a foreign correspondent, for ten years. With Montanelli he founded Il Giornale, of which he was co-director from XNUMX to XNUMX. He was also director of Resto del Carlino and La Nazione. A great expert in foreign policy, and in particular of the events of Central European countries, he was also a senator of the...
Istria and Italy: a century of love
“Twice Italian: once by birth. Once by choice”. How many times have we heard or said with admiration this phrase when speaking of exiles? Because being Italian means respecting our homeland. Giving what we can, and sometimes even more, for Her and for her children who are our brothers. When they heard about the Marsica earthquake – January 13, 1915 – Nazario Sauro and the other exiles rushed to help. Because you cannot be Italian without loving your community. How many times have we heard or said to ourselves “why are we not a People, why are we divided”? Too many. Yet our anthem continues with “Let a single... gather us together”.
“Ship that takes me on the Istrian route”
Notes and identities. The deepest one, the one that defines the very essence of being Italian. The one that several alternative musicians – or, indeed, identity-based – have translated into songs dedicated to the Italians of Istria and Dalmatia. Among them, first of all, the Compagnia dell'Anello, who wrote songs that are not just words, but poetry of the roots in an Italy that has forgotten the exodus and the suffering endured by thousands of compatriots. "We were the first - says Mario Bortoluzzi, voice and historical member of the group, in an interview with Barbadillo.it - also for reasons of cultural and geographical proximity, we have contributed to remembering the tragedy of the foibe and...
Alpini on the peaks and in the abysses of Venezia Giulia
The Black Feathers wrote epic pages on the eastern Italian border, including Mario Maffi's explorations in the foibe. The Alpine troops were established in 1872 to guard border passes and valleys with local recruitment, an innovative approach for the Royal Army. In fact, taking as a model the Tyrolean Landesschützen and the Risorgimento precedents of the Cadorini Volunteers, capable of giving the Habsburgs a hard time in 1848 under the leadership of Calvi, and Garibaldi's Alpine Hunters, the General Staff understood that a possible war theater like the Alpine one required perfect knowledge of the territory. The valley dwellers,...
Story of the irredentist Giovanni Randaccio
Having fallen in battle on 28 May 1917, he was at the centre of D'Annunzio's liturgy during the Fiume adventure. Two months after taking possession of Fiume, Gabriele d'Annunzio once again caused concern and uproar among the liberal Italian ruling class: with a flotilla of ships from the Royal Navy, which had deserted to support his effort to annex Carnaro to Italy, the Poet appeared in Zara, the capital of that Dalmatia that the London Pact of 1915 had assured Rome and that in that autumn of 1919 instead seemed destined to become part of the newly born Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. While waiting for the decisions of the Peace Conference...
The founding dates of the Italian Republic do not concern the eastern border
After the irredentist and interventionist passions, Venezia Giulia, Fiume and Dalmatia gradually disconnected from the fate of the peninsula. The referendum of 2 June 1946, in which the members of the Constituent Assembly were also designated, which would also have carried out parliamentary functions, did not involve all Italians. The lieutenant decree that outlined the electoral colleges also concerned Trieste, Gorizia, Pola, Fiume, Zara (under Anglo-American or Yugoslav military administration, but formally still under Italian sovereignty pending the decisions of the Peace Conference) and Bolzano, but a subsequent legislative decree established that here "the convocation of...
Dalmatia and the relations between Jews and the Italian army
A little-known publication has been presented to the Chamber of Deputies, recalling the Italian commitment in 1941-43 against the anti-Semitism of the Ustaša. Much has been discussed about the actual application of the Racial Laws in Fascist Italy, much less has been said about the rescue of Jews carried out in 1941-1943 by Italian troops stationed in Dalmatia and in their own area of competence within the Independent State of Croatia, fragile but fiercely anti-Semitic. Yet the Historical Office of the Army General Staff published in 2009 “A Debt of Gratitude. History of the Relations between the Italian Army and the Jews in Dalmatia...
Manuele Braico has passed away
His wife Dina and daughter Giulia announce the passing of Manuele Braico, President of the Associations of Istrian Communities, Vice President of the Popular University of Trieste, Vice President of FederEsuli and councilor of IRCI. After an illness of about 3 years, he passed away peacefully at home today. The family expresses a special thanks to all the friends and relatives who came to celebrate his sixtieth birthday and to say goodbye to him. Further thanks are addressed to all the medical, nursing and support staff of the SC Oncology of the Maggiore Hospital of Trieste and the home care of the Valmaura Health District for the...
Peace Treaty 70 Years Later, Torrenti: «Border Area Issues Are Central»
"The issues related to the Second World War, its profound consequences and the current problems open in the border areas have not imposed themselves on the Italian cultural agenda" "The issues related to the aftermath of the Second World War, its profound consequences and the current problems open in the border areas have not imposed themselves on the Italian cultural agenda. This marginality also depends on us, on the set of Regions and autonomous Provinces, and now requires us to produce a new common effort of institutional participation and cultural development". This is the reflection of the regional councilor for Culture of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Gianni Torrenti,...
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