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Gianna Gissi, Istrian costume designer, and the value of “being Italian”
“This book is dedicated to my beautiful nieces”. Often book dedications express the author’s desire to dedicate his work and contain the most concise treasure chest of his passions. This is certainly the case for Gianna Gissi’s book. An Istrian at the Cinema, edited by Alessandro Cuk for Alcione Editore. The monograph recounts the life and works of one of the most important costume designers in Italian cinema. And Gianna Gissi’s life has an indelible beginning. She was born in Pola, on 5 February 1943, in a hospital cellar, under the bombings. Then, at the age of four, in 47, she was forced to flee from Stignano di Pola, where she lived. “I didn’t understand why I...
Foibe, exodus and post-war on the eastern border in the works of Matteo Carnieletto
On the occasion of the celebration of the Day of Remembrance 2022, the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Society of Fiumani Studies have organized at the Casa del Ricordo (a structure that Rome Capital has entrusted to them since its inauguration in January 2015) the conference “Foibe, exodus and post-war on the eastern border”, which can be reviewed on the YouTube channel of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian culture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6aHuOJI2U&t Introducing the event, moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni (Anvgd communication manager), Professor Donatella...
Franco Giraldi's "Il Carso" Found and Restored
At the Pordenone Docs Fest - Le Voci dell'Inchiesta, preview of the debut work of the Julian director Franco Giraldi Il Carso. Giraldi passed away on December 2, 2020, he lived in a nursing home in Santa Croce, on the Carso. A short film produced by Documento Film and shot on the Trieste Carso during the Christmas holidays of 1959. Considered lost by the director himself, until three years ago. When the undersigned was lucky enough to find a 35mm copy, in excellent condition, preserved in the fabulous archives of the Cineteca di Bologna. The restoration was carried out by the laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata of Bologna and supported by Cinemazero of Pordenone. A...
“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
Fiume, the city of life one hundred years later
On May 24, 1915, the Kingdom of Italy entered the First World War with a series of territorial claims established by the London Pact regarding Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Fiume was to be the remaining outlet to the Adriatic of a downsized Austro-Hungarian Empire deprived of Trieste, its main maritime port. The irruption onto the political scene of the principle of self-determination of peoples, the implosion of the dual monarchy and the birth of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the claims of Italianity by Andrea Ossoinack (the last representative of the capital of Carnaro in the Parliament of Budapest) and the Council...
Promotion of Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian history
Research and cultural initiatives of the ANVGD and the Society of Fiumani Studies in 2020 Live teleconference on the YouTube channel of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiumana and Dalmatian culture Thursday 10 December 2020 at 17:00 pm on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmULOg6_pKg (the conference will then remain visible here) Second part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbrnB2Rd1I Despite the logistical and operational difficulties resulting from the anti-Covid restrictions, the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Society of Fiumani Studies, associations to which the administration of...
The Adriatic world in the second half of the twentieth century
by Lorenzo Salimbeni - 09/06/2018 ROME | A large and qualified audience (including among others Prof. Ester Capuzzo of La Sapienza University, Prof. Giuseppe de Vergottini of the Adriatic Coordination Association and Prof. Damir Grubiša, former ambassador to Italy of the Republic of Croatia) characterized the last event of the series of study conferences "The cultural world in Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia from 1700 to 1900", organized at the Casa del Ricordo by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in synergy with the Department of Culture of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Rome Capital. Introduced and...
The Twentieth Century of the Eastern Adriatic
On Monday 4 June at 18:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo in Rome (Via di San Teodoro, 72) the series of conferences dedicated to the culture of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia over the last three centuries will conclude with an in-depth study dedicated to the post-war period, introduced and moderated by Professor Rita Tolomeo (Dalmatian Society of National History of Rome). The Serbian historian Bogdan Zivkovic with "Yugoslavia, PCI and the question of the Italian minority. 50s-60s" will address the issue of the Italians "remaining" in Tito's Yugoslavia after the Peace Treaty of 1947. Professor Donatella Schürzel, historian and scholar of Eastern Adriatic literature, will present "The world...
“The Wind of Others” at the House of Remembrance
On Friday 19th January 2018 at 18,00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo in via San Teodoro, 72 (Rome) the novel by Silvia Cuttin "Il Vento degli altri" (Pendragon, Bologna 2017) will be presented. Moderator: Marino Micich (Director of the Historical Museum Archive of Fiume). Speakers: Donatella Schürzel (President of the ANVGD Committee of Rome) Emiliano Loria (Historical Museum Archive of Fiume). The author Silvia Cuttin will be present. The story is set in Fiume during the twentieth century: "Il vento degli altri" is a novel of voices, which aims to transform memory into...
1917 The turning point in World War I
On Monday 11 December at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia is organizing the conference by Prof. Fulvio Salimbeni (President of the Institute for Central European Cultural Encounters) “1917 The turning point in the First World War”: introduced by Prof. Donatella Schürzel (President of the ANVGD Committee of Rome), moderated by Dr. Marino Micich (Society of Fiumani Studies). From the defeat of Caporetto to the battle of stopping the Piave in that conflict that for many Italians represented the Fourth War of Independence, from the October Revolution...
