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Words that enclose the soul of Fiume
They are still there, in the central docks of the old port of Rijeka, performing their original function, serving as moorings for boats, which today are increasingly real yachts; they are still there, sturdy, in cast iron, with the signs of times gone by, to remind us, to keep us anchored to the legacy of the past: they are the bollards. It is no coincidence, but it is precisely in a series that reports this nautical term that Un tetto di radici by Gianna Mazzieri-Sanković and Corinna Gerbaz Giuliano sees the light. A scientific essay of monographic nature (fresh off the press, published by Ligurian Gammarò), of great depth both in terms of content and size (it is almost 700 pages),...
Giovanni Radossi Honorary President UI
Historical director and co-founder of the Historical Research Center of Rovinj, professor and politician, Giovanni Radossi has been elected honorary president of the Italian Union, for an indefinite period and in an honorary capacity. The Assembly established this yesterday, with 40 votes in favor, during its fifteenth session, at the Antonio Coslovich City Theater in Umag. Thirty years after its foundation, the association of Italians in Croatia and Slovenia looks to the members who have marked both its path and that of the Italian National Community itself, thus contributing to the maintenance of language, culture and identity in these lands, after the...
Dreaming of freedom
Gabriella Chmet recovers her memories as a teenager growing up in Tito's Yugoslavia, painting a merciless and ironic fresco of a nation that no longer exists and of its god-master. It was certainly not the (alleged) lack of flavors among the yogurt jars, as former Croatian president Kolinda Grabar Kitarović once declared, that made life in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia insipid and bitter. The relatives of the thousands of people who disappeared into thin air, the hundreds of thousands of Julian-Dalmatian exiles forced to leave everything to save themselves, the many political persecuted (and interned), or how many escaped... know something about it.
Alida Valli «returns» to Pula
On the day of her birth, one hundred years ago, the cinema that bears her name offers the documentary film by Mimmo Verdesca that celebrates the first Italian actress capable of bewitching Hollywood. The film portrays the protagonist between art and love, presenting documents, photographs and unpublished personal films. An unmissable event at the Cinema Valli. Three screenings, at 17, 19 and 21 pm, on the exact day she was born, one hundred years ago, in Pola. In the cinema, in the city of the Arena that gave her birth, on May 31, “Alida” will be on stage, the documentary film by Mimmo Verdesca that celebrates, for the first time on the screen, the first Italian actress to bewitch Hollywood. Muse of Visconti, Hitchcock,...
Propaganda in Istria in March 1946
For the visit of the Inter-Allied Commission for the delimitation of the borders in Istria, the Yugoslav side implemented a systematic strategy to support the Slavic claims. The actions achieved their goal, but one of the consequences was the exodus of the Italians, as an exhibition in Pazin concludes. There is a cartoon, in many ways emblematic, by the Pula caricaturist Gigi Vidris depicting Istria, personified by a woman in Vodnjan folk costume, with a terrified look as she tries to escape the grip of the Marshal, who chases her pushed by Stalin, while a sign reads: "It is not Tito who wants Istria, but Istria that wants...
Toscanini's concert in Rijeka
At the invitation of Gabriele D'Annunzio, the Maestro performed with his Orchestra for charity by Ilaria Rocchi - 19/11/2020 Source: La Voce del Popolo A memorable event, which Fiume experienced a hundred years ago, and which Arturo Toscanini (Parma, 1867 – New York, 1957) would remember forever, also because never, ever in his life, happened to him – by his own admission – to witness “such a sincere, intense, plebiscitary exaltation of patriotic love”. The Fiume enterprise enthralled many in Italy and one of the greatest conductors of all time did not shy away from this feeling, who already on several occasions, including during the Great...
