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Carlo Coretti, the irredentist photographer
Sixty-five wooden boxes that have been forgotten and hidden for decades. Inside them are thousands of previously unpublished three-dimensional glass negatives that retrace Italy in the early 900s through historical events, key figures, monuments, churches and city views, many of which no longer exist. A historical investigation that reconstructs the forgotten existence, lived one hundred years earlier, of an activist photographer through his eyes and the fragile images on glass collected, preserved and never published. A research path that will shed light on two existences so different and distant but inextricably linked by political passion and love for...
The National League presents “Irredentism without romanticism”
Today, on the anniversary of Italy's entry into the First World War (24 May 1915) with the aim of completing national unification with the annexation of what were called "unredeemed lands" (Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia), we would like to point out that on Friday 27 May at 17:30 pm, the Lega Nazionale di Trieste will present at its headquarters in via Donota 2 in Trieste (third floor) the anastatic reprint of Mario Alberti's volume "L'Irredentismo senza romanticismi" (July, Trieste 2022) made possible thanks to a contribution from L. 72/2001. The speakers will be Avv. Paolo Sardos Albertini (President of the Lega Nazionale) and Prof. Diego Redivo...
The gift of the Triestine patriots to the King of Italy in 1861
The collections of Miramare Castle in Trieste have been enriched by a patriotic painting made in 1861 and sent to Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy since 17 March of that year. It is "Allegory of Trieste and Istria", a work by Annibale Strata, a painter who among other things had actively taken part in the uprisings of 1848-'49. The work, recovered from the archives of the Royal Palace of Turin as part of a recovery and enhancement project promoted by the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, will remain on display in the wing of the castle where the Duke of Aosta had stayed for several years. The Piccolo -...
Luigi Ziliotto, a dream turned nightmare
Today, February 5, 2022, marks the centenary of the death of Luigi Ziliotto (Zadar, February 8, 1863-Zadar, February 5, 1922), five-time podestà (mayor) of Zadar. Appointed senator of the Kingdom of Italy on November 12, 1921, in December of the same year he gave a passionate speech in the Senate Chamber against the ratification of the Treaty of Rapallo, which handed over all of Dalmatia, with the exception of Zadar, to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Ziliotto, whose bust, together with that of the other Dalmatian senator of the Kingdom, Roberto Ghiglianovich, is placed next to the entrance to the Senate Chamber in Rome, was an illustrious exponent of Dalmatian irredentist nationalism,...
November 12, 1866, Franz Joseph attacks the Adriatic Italianity
November 12, 1866, in the “gracious” presence of Emperor Franz Joseph of Habsburg, the Crown Council meets in Vienna. From this meeting, what is happening in Istria and even more so in Dalmatia is made official: the “large appetite” of the Slavs is awakening with the support of Austria. On November 12, 1866, the Crown Minutes are written (available in Die Protokolle des Österreichischen Ministerrates 1848/1867. V Abteilung: Die Ministerien Rainer und Mensdorff. VI Abteilung: Das Ministerium Belcredi, Österreichischer Bundesverlag für Unterricht, Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna 1971; the citation appears in Section VI, vol. 2, session...
Franz Joseph ordered the denationalization of Italians
Franz Joseph ordered the “persecution” of Italians in Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. According to some historians, the emperor’s decision remained only on paper. But a careful reconstruction based on original sources shows that, unfortunately, this was not the case. And this policy was the basis of subsequent tensions between Italians and Slavs… The famous – or, if you prefer, infamous – order given by Franz Joseph of Habsburg to the Crown Council on 12 November 1866 to proceed with the Germanization and Slavicization of Trentino, Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, is a historically indisputable fact, being reported in official documentation…
105 years ago the martyrdom of Nazario Sauro
September 20, 1880 marked the tenth anniversary of the Breach of Porta Pia, through which the troops of the Kingdom of Italy had conquered Rome, putting an end to the temporal power of the Popes and enriching the path of the Risorgimento with the conquest of what was to be the capital of a united Italy. However, at the time, lands where the majority of the population spoke, felt and had Italian culture were still under the domination of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Trentino, Venezia Giulia (including Trieste, Gorizia and Istria), Fiume and the cities of the Dalmatian coast. Committed Italian patriots and intellectuals called those lands “unredeemed”,...
Eastern Border History Summer School
New, important step forward in the collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles: a summer school dedicated to the history of the eastern border in the prestigious setting of the Vittoriale. In fact, from 12 to 16 July, as part of the activities “The events of the eastern border and the world of school”, the first summer school entitled “The difficult twentieth century of the eastern border. From the Italian Risorgimento to European perspectives” will take place in Gardone Riviera (in the province of Brescia) in the Vittoriale degli Italiani as part of the initiatives for the centenary of the sumptuous residence of Gabriele...
May 24, 1915, Fourth War of Independence
For the Italians still subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as residents in the unredeemed lands (Trentino, Venezia Giulia, Fiume and Dalmatia) as for a large part of the interventionist front, what contemporaries called the Great War actually represented a Fourth War of Independence, the completion of the Risorgimento path that stopped at the Breach of Porta Pia (September 20, 1870) and then set aside due to the commitment of the Kingdom of Italy in colonial adventures and adherence to the Triple Alliance. This continuity with the Risorgimento struggles and the recognition finally of the requests brought forward by the irredentists resident on both sides...
At the Roots of Irredentism
On Friday 26 March, the presentation of the book "Alle radici dell'Irredentismo" was held in live streaming on the Lega Nazionale Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=433431951092925&ref=watch_permalink&t=7. The President of the historic association, Avv. Paolo Sardos Albertini, and the author of the book, Dr. Pamela Tedesco, participated. The well-known historian from Trieste Giulio Cervani defined the clash between Julian and Croatian historians, which characterized the second half of the nineteenth century, as a "race for the priority of origins". The study of history, in fact, became one of the tools characterizing the political-national struggle...
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