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“A Life for Pola”, the first graphic novel by Stefano Zecchi
On February 10, 2022, the first graphic novel by Stefano Zecchi, one of the great protagonists of Italian culture, will be released in all bookstores. An exciting, dramatic and adventure-filled story of an Istrian family fleeing the violence of Marshal Tito's Yugoslavian troops. The volume, published by Ferrogallico, will be released on February 10 to celebrate, with a work of extraordinary sensitivity, the Day of Remembrance. With the screenplay adaptation by Federico Goglio and the wonderful drawings by Giuseppe Botte. Una vita per Pola is the comic book adaptation of Quando ci batteva forte il cuore, the novel by Stefano Zecchi dedicated to the Istrian exodus....
The story of Norma Cossetto and Nino Benvenuti for schools
A handout by Guido Rumici and two comics published by Ferrogallico to learn about the history of the eastern Italian border The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Association Giuliani nel Mondo represent a solid hub of aggregation in contemporary Trieste; their common roots are born in the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus and, while the first branches out in Italy with committees and delegations, the other expands throughout the world with its clubs. Both of their spatial dimensions are characterized by a particular propensity for the formation of culture, which they convey in neighboring environments through pamphlets, periodicals and studies...
Nino Benvenuti's Exodus in Comics
Nino Benvenuti - Mario Grimaldi, Nino Benvenuti. My exodus from Istria, drawings by Giuseppe Botte, afterword by Emanuele Merlino, Ferrogallico, Milan 2020. The comic autobiography of Nino Benvenuti, one of the greatest Italian boxers of all time, is the story of a boy and his dream, but also of a drama… The drama of the Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia forced to exodus, after the Second World War, to escape the terrible violence, murders, sinkholes unleashed by Tito's Yugoslav communist troops. Nino Benvenuti, from Istria, is the symbol of redemption: his unforgettable conquest of the gold medal at the Olympics...
The comic “River or Death”
RIVER OR DEATH THE EPIC ENTERPRISE OF D'ANNUNZIO AND HIS MEN The most original, long, faithful, adventurous, heroic, ironic and entertaining visual story of the legendary Fiume enterprise of Gabriele d'Annunzio and his legionaries. A century later, we return to savor the pioneering spirit, the jovial atmosphere and the heroic tensions in the masterpiece conceived by Carlo Sicuro, written by Manlio Bonati and illustrated by Yildirim Örer and Mauro Vecchi. Over 140 pages of pure, bold, brazen, exciting Italianness: from the preamble to the Great War with the legendary flight over Vienna in 1918 to the mutilated Victory, from the march to conquer the city of Fiume...
