Courtesy of the author, Bruno Tardivelli, we publish the preface of his memoir "Fiume, la città smarrita". I purposely wanted to include on the cover the image of today's Rijeka (once Fiume) to affirm that this photo no longer portrays My City. Time passes, generations too, each one leaves a trace, but if the great majority of the population flees or is expelled even brutally as happened in the post-war period, it is impossible that the buildings alone can retain the same identity. In a short time, a small, evolved Italian city of about 50 thousand inhabitants, since the end of the war in May 1945 has been...