Letter to Marcello Veneziani
Dear Marcello Veneziani, I am writing to you after reading, along with many of us, your beautiful piece of the 13th of this month in La Verità entitled “And the lost Italy was found in Fiume”. As you know, the world of the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus brings together a people; many people distributed throughout Italy and the world who were forced to abandon their possessions and effects to safeguard their Italian identity and, with it, their freedom. This part of the Italian people is not dead at all, but alive and generative, and continues its work of testimony and patient mending with the land of origin, with the native Italian communities of Slovenia and Croatia and, even, with the governments of those...
The foibe? In Italy only oblivion wins
by Marcello Veneziani The Day of Remembrance is the last commemoration dedicated to patriotic love established in our country. It remains there, a disoriented orphan in the calendar of oblivion, destined to survive in an indecent semi-clandestine state that tends to gradual removal, until its definitive extinction. The other national anniversaries, long-standing survivors, float semi-submerged in our past: November 4th vegetates and takes refuge in the closest Sunday and celebrates the Armed Forces, May 24th has practically disappeared, March 17th was a brief meteor that made its appearance for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy and then disappeared, after...
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