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Giuseppe Pino Vuxani Zara

A Memory of Giuseppe – Pino Vuxani

A proud Zaratino has left us. With him, the last descendant of the Vuxani family, patriots of the Albanian community of Borgo Erizzo, a hamlet of the Municipality of Zara that bears the name of the Provveditore of the Republic of Venice, Nicolò Erizzo, who in 1726 welcomed and assigned to that place a group of Albanian Catholic families who had fled to escape the Ottoman occupation, has disappeared. In Zara, before the outbreak of the Great War, the Vuxani house was an important reference, headquarters of the Autonomist Party (the pro-Italian party), of the National League, of the Bersaglieri Society and of the Italo-Albanian Association. Giuseppe – Pino Vuxani (Zara 23.02.1926 – Trieste 16.12.2021)...