Saturday evening, July 24th, will be dedicated to culture at the Casa del Consul in Calice Ligure where, at 21:00 pm, history and writing enthusiast Elisabetta Bertolotti will present her latest book “Il confine orientale tra Fiume e Trieste – Storie di due porti franchi”, published by Prospettiva.

This is a short popular essay that, starting in depth from the first half of the 18th century, when the two Central European cities became free ports by order of the Habsburgs, leads to the post-war period in what can undoubtedly be defined as one of the Italian border regions most steeped in history, often very troubled.

A book that, through a historical thread, allows the reader to peek into a series of historical, gastronomic, artistic, social and costume curiosities told with various events rediscovered with careful and meticulous research work by the author, driven by a passion for those places far from us Ligurians and which she had already discussed in her first book "Una famiglia Qualunque".

Together with the professor of the University of Genoa and historian from Finale Fabio Caffarena, we will delve into the historical events of the Triveneto and of what is now the third city of Croatia known as Rijeka, but also into some narratives unknown to most, but characterizing eras and territories that are always very fertile socially and culturally speaking.

From the period of the Austrian emperors through the enterprises of D'Annunzio's memory, the tobacco manufacturing industry of Rovigno up to the foibe, with particular attention to that of Basovizza. All with an aura of "feminism" underlining the role, far from secondary, of women in these events.

Source: SavonaNews – 21/07/2021