The response of the Vice President of the Regional Council of Tuscany to the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles is published. We respond to your letter dated July 31, as soon as the Offices of the Region have become fully operational, underlining first of all that this is a matter of no small importance, on which we believe it is necessary and useful to clarify. As is known, the project, underway right now, arises from the will of the Regional Council, fully accepted by the Council and implemented by the Department of Culture. It is not a beginning for the Tuscany Region, which since 2005, the first year of...

Renzo Codarin is the new vice president of the Università Popolare di Trieste: he was elected unanimously, on the proposal of the board of directors, by the board of directors of the institution, convened in extraordinary sessions after the recent death of Manuele Braico. "An appointment in the name of continuity and in memory of a true friend - says the president of the Università Popolare di Trieste, Fabrizio Somma - to carry on, until the end of the mandate, the dialogue between exiles and those who remained as we had conducted it up to now with Manuele Braico, in full agreement with Renzi. Codarin, delegate on the board of directors of Federesuli. A dialogue built on personal relationships before...

The choice of the Tuscany Region to entrust exclusively to the Historical Institute of the Resistance the training of teachers in the context of the Summer school held in recent days as a preamble to a Journey of Remembrance that teachers and students will undertake in the places of the Foibe and the Exodus next February has raised doubts in the community of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles. Far be it from us to question the intellectual honesty of the speakers, even if it was disconcerting to find the names of scholars who made no secret of their justifying theses regarding the massacres of the foibe committed by Tito's national-communist partisans. Already in Milan...

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...

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...

“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”.

  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,...

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...