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The Jews in Gorizia, Istria and Dalmatia: a story of coexistence and sharing
Continuing in the wake of a fruitful cultural collaboration that began in recent years, the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia organized a conference dedicated to the Day of Remembrance at the Casa del Ricordo (a structure that it manages on behalf of Roma Capitale together with the Società di Studi Fiumani), involving as speaker Claudio Procaccia (opening photo), Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Jewish Community of Rome. “The Jews in Venezia Giulia and the Eastern Adriatic: coexistence and sharing” is the topic that was discussed on Thursday 3 February: the conference is visible...
Anvgd Roma conferences live on the CDM YouTube channel
On the CDM YouTube channel of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture, two conferences organized by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia will soon be broadcast live. On Friday 10 December at 17:00 pm, live from the prestigious headquarters of Palazzo Ferrajoli in the central Piazza Colonna in Rome, the book "Occhi Mediterranei" by Dario Fertilio, Christophe Palomar and Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin (Pendragon, Bologna 2019) will be presented, an event that was supposed to take place in spring 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic. Introduced and moderated by Lorenzo Salimbeni...
Osimo, a Treaty that is still being discussed
Polemics, protests, silences, disinterest and reticence: the Treaty of Osimo, signed in the town in the Marche region on 10 November 1975, marked a controversial page in the history of the eastern Italian border. In the face of historians, observers and politicians who judged it a masterpiece in the creation of an Italian Ostpolitik in the midst of the Cold War aimed at perfecting the already good relations with communist Yugoslavia, the Treaty of Osimo was immediately opposed by the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, while in Parliament the only vain opposition came from the Italian Social Movement. If at the time the bilateral agreement between Italy and Yugoslavia...
The “bill” of September 8 was paid at the eastern borders
September 8 as the day of Italy's redemption in the Second World War. September 8 as the beginning of the Resistance and the fight against Nazi-fascism on a larger scale. The usual ceremonies have insisted on these aspects, but for the Italians of the eastern border this date is well represented by the title of the famous essay by Ernesto Galli Della Loggia «The Death of the Fatherland». A Fatherland that entered into agony in the retreats in Russia and North Africa, in the war of attrition in the Balkans and in the collapse of the fascist regime. A Fatherland idealized and exalted in the unredeemed lands until the moment it materialized in November 1918, presenting itself in the austere clothes...
The restoration of the Redipuglia Shrine is completed
The largest military shrine in Italy preserves 100.000 fallen soldiers from the First World War, 60.000 of whom are unknown. On the centenary of what, especially but not only for the Italians on the eastern border, was a true Fourth War of Independence, it has undergone extensive restoration that has finally been completed. This is the monumental staircase of Redipuglia (an Italianization of the Slovenian toponym Sredipolje). It was inaugurated in 1938 based on a design by the architect Giovanni Greppi and the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni. This partnership had also been entrusted with the Bezzecca Military Shrine (which united Garibaldi's fallen soldiers from the Third War of Independence and...
Rome, Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic
As part of the events organized for the Dante centenary, the Dante Adriaticus project curated by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia reaches its second stage on Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July. The initiative will take place in the capital with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region, the Municipio Roma IX and the Dante Festival. For the events of 30 June, access is free (in compliance with anti-covid provisions), while the events of XNUMX July can be followed live on the CDM YouTube Channel (Multimedia Documentation Center of Culture...
April 25th was not a liberation for all Italians
On the day the Northern Italy National Liberation Committee unleashed the insurrection in Milan and in the other main cities now abandoned by the retreating Germans, in the far north-east the situation was very different. The Anglo-American troops were far from Venezia Giulia because, once the Gothic Line had been broken through, the priority was to reach the Brenner Pass and from there quickly get to Bavaria, where it was feared that the last desperate German resistance would be concentrated. Instead, the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was marching at forced marches, more interested in reaching Trieste, Gorizia, Pola and Fiume than in regaining control of cities...
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...
Italy's Return to Trieste (But Not Istria)
by Lorenzo Salimbeni and Davide Rossi Source: l'Adige - 26/10/2020 The very famous definition that Winston Churchill gave in 1946 of the Iron Curtain set its extremes at Stettin on the Baltic and Trieste on the Adriatic. Trieste had risen up not on April 25, 1945, but on the 30th, thanks to a National Liberation Committee that had had to face not only Nazi repression, but also denunciations and the will to conduct a parallel resistance by the communist partisans, both Italian and Slovenian and Croatian, who hoped for the annexation to the nascent Titoist Yugoslavia of the lands conquered by Italy at the cost of immense sacrifices during the First...
Videoconference on the Treaty of Osimo
As part of the initiative "Le pause dello Spirito" curated by the Ugo Spirito and Renzo De Felice Foundation (Rome), Lorenzo Salimbeni (researcher of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and director of the 10th February Committee) held a video conference on the Treaty of Osimo, with which in 1975 Italy definitively ceded to Yugoslavia the former Zone B (districts of Capodistria and Buie) of the never-established Free Territory of Trieste. This speech can be found here...
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