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Dear friends of the Eastern Adriatic [Paolo Sardos Albertini]
Dear friends and brothers, Italians of Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia, Montenegro The National League celebrated 130 years of its history, also remembering you. Because, of this long period that touched three centuries, that went from the era of horse-drawn trams to that of computers, because of these many decades of history a good part was lived also with you, also by you. Thus at the time of the resistance against the Habsburg genocide: the National League was present in your territories to try to stem the will of Franz Joseph to use every means to erase the Italian presence and Slavicize this entire area. Together we lived...
Pola, Nelida Milani nominated for the Citizen Award
The proposal was put forward by the president of the Assembly of the Italian Community of Pula Tamara Brussich after the interested party accepted the nomination For once, unanimity of views (and votes) for a common cause: on Saturday evening, the Assembly of the Italian Community of Pula decided to nominate fellow countryman writer Nelida Milani for the 2022 Pula City Award. The proposal was put forward by president Tamara Brussich, but it didn't fall from the sky: "After years of attempts at persuasion - she says -, finally our Nelida has accepted the nomination". The Italian Community of Pula thus reaffirms its commitment to promoting...
The “remaining” Julians, victims of history
“Bora” by Anna Maria Mori and Nelida Milani (Frassinelli, 1998, 240 p.) contains the testimony of two women, natives of Pola, whose young lives were affected by the tragic events of the Second World War with the exodus of the Italian population from Istria, Fiume, Dalmatia. This marked forever, for them as for many of us natives of those lands, the irreversible laceration between the “before” and the “after”. At the end of the book there is a chronology of the main historical events that concern us. It was written by Antonella Scarpa, who, we learn, “lives in Venice where she studies contemporary history, and works as a librarian. Daughter of an exile who has...
Ronzani publishes “Chronicle of the Shacks” by Nelida Milani
By the author from Pola, one of the protagonists of the Eastern Adriatic narrative, edited by Mauro Sambi, “L'osteria della Parenzana” (15 April), “Agnus Dei” (13 May) and “La partita” (16 June) are published, Ronzani Editore for the literature of the Italians of Istria: the project begins with “Cronaca delle Baracche” a collection of the works of Nelida Milani in three volumes. The writer Nelida Milani is the first protagonist of the project with which Ronzani Editore intends to support the rediscovery and diffusion of the literature produced by the community of Italians who remained to live in Istria and Fiume after the Second World War: a literary reality...
The Bora that divides Istria
by Cristina Batocletti - February 6, 2018 Nelida Milani and Anna Maria Mori are sisters from the same womb that no longer exists except geographically, Istria: a strip of land between the Gulf of Trieste and the Gulf of Quarnero, which was Italian from the Treaty of Rapallo in 1920 to the Paris Peace Treaty in 1947. Bora. Istria, the wind of exile tells the story of the past of the girls Nelida and Anna Maria, born in 1939 and 1936, divided by History, which made Nelida first a Yugoslavian citizen and then a Croatian, and Anna Maria a refugee and then an Italian again. A childhood that began in a generous land, between the Roman arena and the Venetian streets, the sea...
