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In Bruno Vespa's new book also the Foibe and the Exodus
Bruno Vespa's new book, Il rancore e la speranza. Ritratto di una nazione dal dopoguerra a Giorgia Meloni, in un mondo stained di sangue (Mondadori - Rai Libri, Milan 2023) has been published. The daily newspaper Libero has previewed an excerpt from chapter VII («That strip of Italy betrayed and lost») that talks about the foibe and the drama of the Julian-Dalmatian refugees. * «An inevitable historical fact». This is how Luigi Longo, Palmiro Togliatti's number two and head of the revolutionary wing of the PCI, defined the annexation of Trieste and the coast to Slovenia. The Communist Party of Trieste had made an indecent proposal to the CLN: to admit into the Liberation Committee...
Remembering to Understand: The Story of Our Eastern Border
The Department of Education and Family Policies of the Municipality of Trieste, with the collaboration of the National League of Trieste, continues the traditional implementation of the project ““Remembering to Understand: the history of our eastern border” for the 2022/2023 school year, intended for secondary school students. The project aims to provide a historical study of the events of the eastern border. From December to today, a conference has been organized entitled “Remembering to Understand. Historical reconstruction of the events of the eastern border” by the scientific coordinator Prof. Stefano Pilotto,...
Appointments on Adriatic history at the Turin Book Fair
After the extraordinary edition of 2021, the XXXIV edition of the Salone Internazionale del Libro will be held in Turin from 19 to 23 May in the classic annual format. The guest region of the 2022 edition is Friuli Venezia Giulia. Among the events of the rich program we particularly highlight for their relevance to the history of the eastern Italian border: - Thursday 19 May "Istria. The places of cinema" with Carlo Gaberscek, Livio Jacob and Fulvio Toffoli - Thursday 19 May "Gabriele d'Annunzio between roses, mottos, esotericism" with Raffaella Canovi, Paola Goretti, Simone Maiolini and Patrizia Paradisi - Friday 20 May "European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia" with...
Common and shared memories on “La Nuova Voce Giuliana”
Issue 437 of January 16, 2022 of "La Nuova Voce Giuliana", the newspaper of the Association of Istrian Communities, contains a broad and detailed excursus on the history of the eastern border by Flavio Fiorentin, born in Verteneglio and exiled from Fiume, former director of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and passionate history scholar. Of particular value is his book "L'eredità del leone. Dal Trattato di Campoformio (1797) alla Prima Guerra Mondiale (1918)" (Aviani & Aviani, Udine 2018). Also interesting are the contributions dedicated to Senator Riccardo Gigante, with particular reference to the exhumation in the mass grave of Cosala, identification and translation...
The podcast The Long History of the Eastern Border is online
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2022, the Podcast entitled The long history of the Eastern Border. Political and cultural relations between Italy and the coastal states of the Adriatic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is available online. The initiative was curated by the Federation of the Associations of the Fiume, Giuliani and Dalmatian Exiles, an institution that brings together in a single context the different associative realities of the Julian-Dalmatian diaspora. The main objectives of the organization are the perpetuation of the cultural and historical identity of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian communities, formed in Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia through the Roman-Venetian civilization and...
Psychiatry and the Eastern Border
It is a day in mid-November 1961 when Franco Basaglia enters a mental asylum for the first time. It is the psychiatric hospital of Gorizia, on the easternmost edge of Italy, and one of its walls coincides with the border: on the other side is Yugoslavia, we are in the midst of the Cold War. Among the hundreds of people hospitalized, many are of Slovenian origin and one of the first tasks that the new director sets himself is to find interpreters to overcome the language barrier and communicate with them, even with those who have not spoken for years. In this symbolic place (where a revolution in psychiatry will begin) a border divides the states and languages, but...
Enhance 1550 defensive structures on the eastern border
Protocol signed in Trieste that starts an intervention plan. Agreement between the Fvg Region, the State Property Agency, the Ministry of Culture, the Directorate of Works and State Property of Defense, the University of Udine and Trieste. About 1550 defensive structures present in the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia are the subject of an institutional agreement and an intervention plan aimed at the protection, tourist and cultural enhancement and social reuse of this historical heritage unique at European level. The agreement, signed in Trieste in the Palazzo della Regione, involves the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the regional directorate of the State Property Agency, the...
The eastern border of Italy
The borders of a State can be traced in their lines according to four different criteria: geography, ethnography, history and the needs of the defense of the State itself. Already in Roman times the defense of the Eastern Border was a matter of essential importance, being the most threatened of the entire Alpine chain, and therefore already in 128 BC a first external wall was erected from Longatico to the shores of the Quarnero and from Fiume the Roman wall moved in the direction of Plana until it touched the slopes of Monte Nevoso, where there was a permanent and particularly strategic military camp, the Castrum Catalanum, which the local mountaineers referred to as "the...
The Complexity of the Eastern Border History
With reference to the article “History rewritten in silence” by Simonetta Fiori in the Tuesday 6 July edition of “Repubblica”, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles would like to make some clarifications. First of all, it is painful to note that the history of the eastern border is always interpreted in the context of fascism and the political attack on the right, forgetting centuries of Italian presence, history, culture and tradition on the eastern Adriatic coast, as well as the adherence to the Risorgimento of native ruling classes and volunteers. It is necessary to distinguish the ideological and political reading that has...
The first Summer School of Eastern Border History successfully concluded
Great satisfaction among the organizers of the first summer school for teachers dedicated to the history of the eastern Italian border, namely the Working Table of the Ministry of Education and the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, and among those who were able to participate, having the requirements set out in the announcement released in June. The possibility of meeting in person and in compliance with the anti-Covid restrictions in the wonderful structure of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, the kind hospitality of Giordano Bruno Guerri, President of the Fondazione il Vittoriale, and the organizational machine put in place by Prof. Caterina Spezzano, director of the...
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