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The cultural return of exiles to Fiume
“Home is where the heart is,” wrote Franco Papetti, president of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World, quoting the writer and scientist Gaius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, a phrase that has continued to make us reflect for two thousand years. What does it mean for you today, President? “It conveys a simple and engaging concept, namely that home is not just a physical place made of bricks, walls and a roof, but also a mixture of emotions and impulses that sink into our deepest being, the place where we feel safe, where we find our ideal dimension, where we have created an environment to which we are emotionally attached, a...
The Voice of River January/February 2022
It can be consulted online for free or downloaded in PDF format "La Voce di Fiume" of January-February 2022, the new issue of the bimonthly magazine of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World - Free Municipality of Fiume in Exile: La Voce di Fiume 01/2022 Summary Deep in the heart... a compact humanity.............................................................................................................. pag. .... 1 Fiumani gathered remotely to plan future meetings........................................................................................» ......... 3 In Padua in May - exhibition on Comisso and...
Mattarella appoints Melita Sciucca (Italian Community of Fiume) Knight
The Society of Fiumani Studies learns with great satisfaction that the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella has appointed Professor Melita Sciucca, President of the Italian Community of Rijeka, as Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy. The reasons for the appointment - the initiatives promoted to protect the Italian minority of Rijeka and to develop dialogue between the Rijeka exiles, the Italian Community of Rijeka and the institutions of the current Croatian majority - have inspired and continue to inspire, for over thirty years, the activity of our Society which, in collaboration with the Italian Community of Rijeka, as well as with the Association of Fiumani Italians in the World -...
30 years of dialogue between Fiume and the Fiume exiles
Fiume, 1991-2021. This year marks the first 30 years of dialogue with the city of origin by the associations founded by the Fiume exiles: Società di Studi Fiumani and Associazione Fiumani Italiani nel Mondo - Libero Comune di Fiume in Esilio (AFIM-Lcfe). The book edited by Giovanni Stelli and Marino Micich published in 2010 narrates the long journey of European civilization and culture, which allowed the cultural return of the Fiume exiles to their city of origin, today belonging to the Republic of Croatia. At the end of October, the Fiume gathering promoted by AFIM-Lcfe chaired by Franco Papetti will take place in the capital of Carnaro. An initiative unthinkable until...
“La Voce di Fiume” September/October 2021
It can be freely consulted online or downloaded in PDF format "La Voce di Fiume" of September/October 2021: http://www.lavocedifiume.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/settembre_ottobre2021.pdf The bimonthly of the Association of Italian Fiumeans in the World - Free Municipality of Fiume in Exile opens with the editorial of the President of the association Franco Papetti dedicated to the controversies unleashed by Prof. Tomaso Montanari, recently taken office as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena but always the author of justificatory statements and contrary to the Day of Remembrance. SUMMARY So...
30 years of the Italian Union
In 1991, the beginning of the implosion of Yugoslavia led to the independence of Slovenia first and, more bloodily, of Croatia. These geopolitical upheavals also had repercussions on the indigenous Italian community present in Istria, Carnaro and Dalmatia, which until that moment had been included by the communist regime in the Union of Italians of Fiume and Istria: the lack of reference to the Italian presence in Dalmatia had been a kind concession to Croatian nationalism which had embraced the expansionist project that was part of the political program of Marshal Josip Broz "Tito". At the end of the Yugoslav wars of the XNUMXs...
“Remembering together, exiles and those who remain, our deceased”
The President of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World - Free Municipality of Fiume in Exile Franco Papetti on the occasion of the Day of the Deceased declared: “We would have liked to remember together, exiles and those who remained, our deceased, as every year in the Crypt of Cosala in Fiume, but the pandemic has decided for us. This makes our thought even stronger in the desire to remember and pay homage to those who have drawn our footsteps”. Papetti, currently also vice-president of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, added: “Our thoughts are with all of you, Fiumani in the world, in these days of remembrance and reflection...
Fiume exiles in Basovizza
I followed with interest the ceremonies on the Carso that preceded the meeting in Trieste at the Prefecture and at the Narodni Dom returned to the Slovenian Community in the name of a pacification that proceeds through symbolic gestures, sharing, support. As people of Fiume, we fully understand the need to untie the knots of history and build new opportunities. While the images of the two presidents, Sergio Mattarella of Italy and Borut Pahor of Slovenia, scrolled by, holding hands at the Foiba di Basovizza and then in front of the memorial stone of the executed, there are many thoughts that I would have liked to express in a hypothetical assembly of all of us exiles and Italians who remained: starting from the...
