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The director who first dared to tell the story of the Istrian exodus
When it was released in cinemas in 1948, "La città dolente" had little success, but Mario Bonnard's work later became a valuable document on the exodus from Pola and on the conditions of Istria in the immediate post-war period, when in Zone B the Yugoslav military administration actually manifested itself as the first stage of an increasingly obvious annexation to communist Yugoslavia well before the official decisions of the Peace Conference. Free -...
Istrian communists said "Titoists worse than fascists"
The publisher Ronzani continues its meritorious work of recovery and dissemination of the autochthonous Italian literature of the Eastern Adriatic. After a trilogy dedicated to Nelida Milani and her perspectives on the life of those "left behind" in Communist Yugoslavia, it is the turn of the poet from Rovinj Ligio Zanini, whose autobiography Martin Muma dwells extensively on the inhuman conditions in which the "Cominformist" Communists ended up in the gulag of Goli Otok (the Bare Island), those who recognized the supreme authority of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Cominform (coordination body between the Communist parties) even after the Tito/Stalin split in the summer...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, the most private and scandalous side
"Keep freedom intact to the point of intoxication." Benignly obsessed by the ghost of Gabriele D'Annunzio - of whom I suspect he is the reincarnation - Giordano Bruno Guerri prepares the conference on the madness of the Poet at night (at the Follemente festival in Teramo, directed by Gianluca Veneziani). And in the meantime he receives the news of his reconfirmation as President of the Vittoriale degl'Italiani. With his fourth mandate in thirteen years, he is a repeat offender. By now he is part of the sacred walls. Giordano, the dust of the centuries settles on you. Still president and with a museum/mausoleum/circus maximus that receives no public funding, and with Franceschini, a left-wing minister who renames...
