Fifty-four years of Atti. It is not easy to keep a magazine up and running for so long, ensuring over time the variety and quality of content that have made it a point of reference for historical studies on the Istrian peninsula. A milestone that the Rovinj Historical Research Center, says historian Rino Cigui, of the editorial board, celebrates also thanks to the contribution of the numerous collaborators who choose the Atti to publish their works. "We have many external collaborators, our most faithful, who have been following us for decades; and thanks to them we manage to put together the volume every year, even if the number of essays is reduced compared to the past". Ten,...

The volume “Italiani ritrovati. Le relazioni italo-yugoslave e l’origine della collaborazione fra Unione degli Italiani dell'Istria e di Fiume e Università Popolare di Trieste” by Arrigo Bonifacio was recently presented at the Historical Research Centre in Rovinj. The presentation of the volume was preceded and concluded by a musical interlude by the young musician from Rovinj Giovanni Battista Uggeri Michelini on guitar. Among the numerous authorities present in the room, the vice-president of the Istrian Region Jessica Acquavita, the president of the Council of the Italian National Community of the Istrian Region Ennio Forlani, the deputy mayors representing the CNI of...

In a press conference, the Rovinj Historical Research Centre presented the new issue of the Proceedings and La Ricerca, both freely available online or downloadable in PDF format. La Ricerca, n. 85: https://crsrv.org/editoria/la-ricerca/la-ricerca-85/ Proceedings, n. 53: https://crsrv.org/editoria/atti/atti-liii/ * The Proceedings Collection deals with the most varied aspects of the history not only of Istria but of the entire territory in which the Italian component lives and operates. But not only that, as explained by its curator Rino Cigui. "They also have a value with regard to the conservation of the historical and cultural heritage of these territories and above all the conservation...

Especially in Pula, the memory of Dr. Antonio Mirković, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 89, is still alive. He was a family doctor for many people in Pula for decades. He was appreciated for his approach to patients, full of humanity and understanding. In parallel to his medical profession, he was a careful researcher of the curiosities, traditions, history and geography of the Istrian peninsula, so much so that he also became a collaborator of the Historical Research Center of Rovinj, which in 2015 published his book “Istria in my memories”. The fruit of his research carried out between 1960 and 1980 are 16.000 slides, many photographs, essays, documents of...

In recent days, at the Historical Research Centre in Rovinj, an institute that aims to be a point of reference for the protection of the Italian national identity in the area of ​​the historical settlement of the CNI, a meeting took place between the director of the institute Raul Marsetič and the president of the Italian Union Maurizio Tremul. During the cordial meeting, Raul Marsetič wanted to focus in particular on the upcoming editorial activities promoted by the Centre and on the news regarding the renovation and new arrangements of the spaces currently being created at the headquarters of the Crs. During the continuation of the visit, the president of the UI...

"A now usual appointment that comes at the beginning of the summer", explained Raul Marsetič, director of the CRS, in his introductory speech, who announced for next autumn, as he did last year, the public presentation of both the Proceedings and the Notebooks, the latter in the final phase. "A great commitment, we are happy to be able to carry on a work of this quality for many years and we hope to continue like this in the future", said among other things Marsetič before giving the floor to Rino Cigui who instead illustrated the contents collected in the latest issue of the Proceedings. "It is made up of ten essays for a total of 447 pages; the themes are varied and...

The Rovinj Historical Research Centre, in collaboration with the Italian Union and the People's University of Trieste, presented in the hall dedicated to the memory of the illustrious Rovinj historian Bernardo Benussi at the CRS, the Bulletin promoted by the Historical Research Centre, “La Ricerca” in its 82nd edition as well as the 26th issue of the magazine “Ricerche sociali”. The 82nd edition of “La Ricerca” was presented by Nicolò Sponza, editor of the aforementioned Bulletin published last December. School buildings and architectural development “La Ricerca” offers three contributions by historians and collaborators of the Rovinj CRS, including the...

The 51st volume of the “Atti” and the 81st issue of “La Ricerca” were presented at the Historical Research Centre in Rovinj. The latest issues of the “Atti” and “La ricerca” were presented at the Historical Research Centre in Rovinj. The press conference was opened by the director of the Centre, Raul Marsetič, who recalled that the volumes were produced thanks to funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic – General Directorate for the European Union. The floor was then given to Rino Cigui, of the editorial committee of the “Atti”, whose presentation, he stressed, “is certainly the historiographical appointment...

In the series of the Proceedings of the CRS of Rovinj, the last book left to us by the architect and urban planner from Pula Attilio Križmanić, who recently passed away. A seven-hundred-year-long history accompanies, in Pula, the complex of the church and convent of San Francesco, one of the most important testimonies of medieval architecture in the city of the Arena, dating back to the end of the thirteenth century. The church, large and austere, in Gothic style, has a single-nave interior, with remains of early Christian plutei and a large wooden polyptych at the high altar. The adjoining convent, modified and expanded several times over time, is gathered around a beautiful cloister with a portico and loggia. Located at the...