On the sidelines of a recent speech by the undersigned, in his capacity as an economic historian, which took place at the Anteo cinema in Milan, for the presentation of the splendid and touching documentary entitled “Fertilia istriana” by Cristina Mantis, written by Francesca Angeleri and Daniela Piu, I would like to highlight some important passages that gave life to this experience of a village “revitalized” by the presence of a significant group of Julian Dalmatian exiles. To be precise, these are two central moments that are at the basis of the “new life” of what, shortly thereafter, will become the “Fertilia of the Julians”, after having been, in the 1920s and 1930s, the center...