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Disorder. An (almost) sentimental primer.
Anna Maria Mori, born in Pula, exiled in Florence, and established herself as a nationally renowned journalist in Rome, turned 90 on April 12. Her journalism career began with the weekly Annabella, continued with Rome's Il Messaggero, and participated in the founding of la Repubblica. She also worked in radio and television, particularly with the documentaries "Istria 1943-1993: Fifty Years of Solitude" and "Istria, the Right to Memory" (1997) for RAI. These were invaluable contributions in the 1990s, when the history of Italy's eastern border was just beginning to emerge in the national spotlight. Furthermore, in 1999, she made her first...
Anna Maria Mori presents “Born in Istria” again
Presentation conference at the Isimbardi Library in Milan of the new reprint of "Born in Istria", written by the journalist and writer exiled from Pola Anna Maria Mori and published by Rizzoli. Initiative by the Association of Italians of Pola and Istria - Free Municipality of Pola in Exile Odv in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, the Provincial Committee of Milan of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Association of Dalmatian Italians in the World - Free Municipality of Zara in Exile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2K6o0zThqE
The “remaining” Julians, victims of history
“Bora” by Anna Maria Mori and Nelida Milani (Frassinelli, 1998, 240 p.) contains the testimony of two women, natives of Pola, whose young lives were affected by the tragic events of the Second World War with the exodus of the Italian population from Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia. This marked forever, for them as for many of us natives of those lands, the irreversible laceration between the “before” and the “after”. At the end of the book there is a chronology of the main historical events that concern us. It was written by Antonella Scarpa, who, we learn, “lives in Venice where she studies contemporary history, and works as a librarian. Daughter of an exile who has...
The Bora that divides Istria
by Cristina Batocletti - February 6, 2018 Nelida Milani and Anna Maria Mori are sisters from the same womb that no longer exists except geographically, Istria: a strip of land between the Gulf of Trieste and the Gulf of Quarnero, which was Italian from the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920 to the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947. Bora. Istria, the wind of exile tells the story of the past of the girls Nelida and Anna Maria, born in 1939 and 1936, divided by History, which made Nelida first a Yugoslavian citizen and then a Croatian, and Anna Maria a refugee and then an Italian again. A childhood that began in a generous land, between the Roman arena and the Venetian streets, the sea...
