In 1848, while the “Spring of Peoples” raged throughout Europe, the city of Trieste remained almost inert. Almost, because, in solidarity with the Venetian uprisings that brought the Republic of San Marco to prominence, a portion of the Italian community took to the streets in the most important port of the Habsburg Empire, but the majority of the citizens remained neutral and their loyalty to Vienna earned the city the title of “Urbs fidelissima”. Faced with this disappointment, the young Giacomo Venezian, the leader of the Triestine patriots, reached the Roman Republic and died in its defense, inaugurating a sequence that would lead to numerous...