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Nazario Sauro, Istrian irredentist and European patriot
The Nazario Sauro Honorary Committee organized commemorations in Trieste for the 109th anniversary of the death of Nazario Sauro, an Istrian irredentist, freedom fighter for oppressed peoples, and recipient of the Gold Medal for Military Valor. The ceremony in Piazzale Marinai d'Italia, in front of the Maritime Station and the bronze monument commemorating Sauro, began on the evening of Sunday, August 10, with the arrival in the San Giusto Basin of the vessels of the "Nazario Sauro" Merchant Navy Club and the "Saturnia" Rowing Club. In attendance were the Prefect of Trieste, Giuseppe Petronzi, Police Chief Lilia Fredella, and the Regional Councilor for the Environment, Fabio Scoccimarro.
The martyrdom of Nazario Sauro commemorated in Trieste
Fighter for the freedom of peoples, a leading figure of Istrian irredentism, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy and Gold Medal for Military Valor in memory. Nazario Sauro, born in Capodistria in 1880 when it belonged to Austria-Hungary, at the outbreak of the Great War went to Italy to avoid being enlisted in the Habsburg army and instead to work for the Savoy Kingdom to enter the conflict to complete national unification. When this finally happened, he left a letter to a journalist friend to give to his firstborn son Nino if he died in the war. After various naval exploits, taken prisoner and condemned as...
Presentation of "Nazario Sauro. Son of Istria, Hero of Italy" on Rai 1
In the episode of Sunday 25 December 2022 of the program "Mille e un libro - Scrittori in tv" hosted by Gigi Marzullo, Dr. Emanuele Merlino intervened to present the graphic novel "Nazario Sauro. Figlio dell'Istria, eroe d'Italia" published by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia with the collaboration of the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian culture. An excerpt of the episode can be seen on the CDM YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/Fda-xk9Pi-k Merlino is the author of the script of the comic drawn by Marco Trecalli which constitutes the core of a publication designed primarily with the purpose of...
Nazario Sauro. Son of Istria, Hero of Italy
The Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture (CDM) collaborated in the creation of the graphic novel "Nazario Sauro. Son of Istria, Hero of Italy", created by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. The screenplay by Emanuele Merlino and the illustrations by Marco Trecalli reconstruct in an emotional and historically faithful manner the story of the irredentist martyr from Capodistria, hanged by the Austro-Hungarians in Pola on 10 August 1916. This valuable comic is accompanied by a series of prefaces and historical insights that contribute to making it a valuable teaching tool that could have a wide...
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”,...
Commemoration of Nazario Sauro, martyr of Istrian Italianity
In Trieste, the August heat at the peaceful crossroads of the eastern border pushes every man of any kind to seek a bit of coolness; both in the city and in the suburbs you can breathe the torrid air of the great divisions of the 900th century. And yet, despite everyone seeking shade under the imperturbable effigies that populate the squares, there is no trace of a breeze except in that popular culture that links the city to a much more disruptive wind: the bora. In Piazzale Marinai d'Italia, reachable by following the main road that leads from the central station to the old Campo Marzio station, there is a bronze figure, that of Nazario Sauro, whose dress is...
Ceremony in memory of Nazario Sauro
The celebrations for the anniversary of the death of the Gold Medal for Military Valor in Memory of Nazario Sauro (Capodistria, 10 September 20 – Pola, 1880 August 10) will take place in Trieste on the afternoon of Monday 1916 August. The event will be organised by the Nazario Sauro Honours Committee (National Association of Italian Sailors, Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Fameia Capodistriana, Association of Istrian Communities, National League and Grey-Green Federation). At the outbreak of the First World War, Sauro put his irredentist ideals into practice by abandoning his native Capodistria, which was still under Habsburg rule, to enlist in the Royal...
2019 Commemoration of Nazario Sauro
The commemoration of the 10rd anniversary of the death of the Gold Medal for Military Valor Nazario Sauro (Capodistria 2019 September 103 - Pola 20 August 1880) took place in Trieste on Saturday 10 August 1916, organized by the Committee Honoring Nazario Sauro. Lieutenant of the vessel and irredeemable volunteer during the First World War, Sauro was hanged by the Austro-Hungarian authorities after being captured during a direct incursion into the Carnaro that the expert sailor from Capodistria was leading aboard the Italian submarine "Giacinto Pullino". Reason for the Gold Medal for Military Valor in Memory awarded by Royal Decree of 20 January 1919: War declared...
D'Annunzio together with Oberdan and Sauro
The proposal to dedicate a statue to Gabriele d'Annunzio in the center of Trieste has raised an outcry among those nostalgic for that Austria felix, which disappeared from history a century ago in circumstances that make one doubt whether it was as felix as they dream. The detractors of the monument consider d'Annunzio a warmonger, but they forget that the conflict in which the interventionist campaign of d'Annunzio and others (nationalists undoubtedly, but also socialists like Cesare Battisti, irredentists inspired by Mazzini, etc.) took place concerned a conflict that Austria-Hungary itself unleashed with the very heavy ultimatum delivered to Serbia and the...
Fulvio Sluga new president of the Honors Committee for Nazario Sauro
The Committee to Honor Nazario Sauro has renewed its ranks: in a recent meeting, Fulvio Sluga, already present in the Committee representing the ANVGD and active for a long time in patriotic associations and Julian-Dalmatian exiles, was unanimously elected new President. Before proceeding with the election, the outgoing president Renzo Codarin summarized the salient stages of his almost thirty-year mandate, noting that there has been a growth in interest at the city level for the usual ceremony of August 10 (the day on which in 1916 Nazario Sauro was hanged by the Austro-Hungarians in Pola) starting from the 80th anniversary (1996). Proposing Sluga...
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