The Maestro's concert Uto Ughi on the violin, accompanied by the piano of Maestro Bruno Canino, triumphantly inaugurated the 28 edition of the La Bancarella. Eastern Adriatic Book Fair: emotions, music and personal memories introduced the audience that filled the Teatro Verdi in Trieste to the events that will analyse and delve into the Peace Treaty signed in Paris on 10 February 70 years ago and which had heavy repercussions for the territory and the Italians of Venezia Giulia, Carnaro and Dalmatia.

So it was a real one keynote by professor Ernesto Galli of the Loggia the next day to address the issue first, grasping the problems of an Italy that had emerged defeated from the conflict, but which thought it had won because fascism had been defeated at the end of the civil war: already in its first steps of "democracy without a nation", the Italian State put aside its compatriots on the eastern border (excluded from the vote of 2 June 1946) on whom the most serious consequences of the diktat (because there was no room for negotiation) of the Allies.

Produced by the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture in co-organisation with the Municipality of Trieste and the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, the Stall continues now with a first cycle of meetings, to then reach the peak of its activities in January and February until the Day of Remembrance 2018, with the appointments organized by the various associations of the Julian-Dalmatian diaspora and the research institutions that are interested in the history and culture of the Eastern Adriatic: among the guests expected in this session, there is also Joe Bastianich, who will focus on the Istrian roots of his family and its renowned culinary art.

On Saturday 11 November at 17:30 pm in the Sala Bazlen on the ground floor of Palazzo Gopcevich (via Rossini, 4 – Trieste) the events will resume with a conference dedicated to the relationship with the world of cinema of two icons of Istrian Italianness: the actress Alida valli and the irredentist Nazario Sauro. Alessandro Cuk, film critic and Deputy Vice President of the ANVGD, will lead the meeting, introduced by the President of the CDM Renzo Codarin, starting from his new book “Alida Valli from Pola to Hollywood and beyond” (Alcione, Treviso 2016) dedicated to the artist from Polesano who never denied her Istrian Italian origins and presenting together with Emanuele Merlino (February 10 Committee) an unpublished film from 1947, which shows the arrival at the Lido di Venezia Shrine of the coffin of Nazario Sauro, who left Pola together with the exiles who boarded the Toscana.

Subsequently, again at the Sala Bazlen at 17:30 p.m., on Saturday 18 November, Professor Adriana Ivanov (Association of Italian Dalmatians in the World – Free Municipality of Zara in Exile) will lead a conference dedicated to the main historiographical and editorial novelties that have affected Dalmatia and the Eastern Adriatic in general, and on Saturday 2 December, the book by Lorenzo Salimbeni “Sul ciglio della foiba. Storie e vicinde dell'italianità” (Pagine, Rome 2016) will be presented. On Monday 27 November, instead, at the Sala Tergeste of the Hotel Savoy Excelsior (Riva del Mandracchio, 4 – Trieste) at 17:30 p.m., the Vice President of the Senate Maurizio Gasparri will give an institutional speech on the theme “The Italian Republic and the Eastern Border”.