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November 4th, a popular victory that Italy is mutilating today
by Davide Rossi and Lorenzo Salimbeni - 04/11/2020 Source: l'Adige On 4 November 1918, the armistice signed the previous day at Villa Giusti between Italy and Austria-Hungary came into force, completing "the work begun with such heroism by our fathers", as Vittorio Emanuele III of Savoy had announced on 24 May 1915 upon entering what contemporaries called the Great War, but which for Italians was the Fourth War of Independence. It was a conflict that crowned the auspices of irredentism, a political and cultural movement born in 1877 among the people of Trieste, Istria and Trentino who had gathered in Naples for the funeral of...
A warning to Italy from Trieste
In 1914, on the eve of the Kingdom of Italy's entry into the war, the irredentist Ruggero Timeus from Trieste published a book entitled Trieste. With this work he criticized the attempt by the imperial government itself to denationalize the Italian-speaking territories of the Habsburg Empire. The book, of disconcerting topicality, would historically create a definitive split, long foreseen, with the cultural irredentism of Scipio Slataper and Giani Stuparich. The figure of the young intellectual from Trieste, who would die in September 1915, struck by an Austrian grenade, has been defined as inconvenient. This was because he denounced, in an impetuous manner, the lack of...
