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Nino Benvenuti, an Italian legend
A documentary that wants to honor the memory and legacy of one of the greatest boxers of all time, who passed away at the age of 87: it is “Nino Benvenuti, an Italian legend”, broadcast on Friday 20 June in prime time on Rai 2. Produced by Moviheart by Massimiliano La Pegna in collaboration with Rai Documentari, written by Tommaso Cennamo - who also signs the direction - and Nathalie Bertorello (Benvenuti), the work retraces with interviews and archive images life and career, successes first at amateur level and then at professional level. Steps that, in succession, made Nino Benvenuti a true icon especially in the '60s and '70s. It is the...
Nino Benvenuti, Istrian exile and boxing champion, is no longer among us
Nino Benvenuti, Istrian exile and legend of Italian boxing, Olympic and world champion, died recently at the age of 87. Born in Isola d'Istria on April 26, 1938, he lived through the occupation of the army of communist Yugoslavia in the spring of 1945, which brought mourning and persecution to Italians in the context of Tito's annexationist project. His brother was arrested by the OZNA, the Yugoslavian secret police, suffered a harsh detention but fortunately returned home, unlike thousands of Julian, Fiume and Dalmatians of whom nothing more was heard. His family fled to Trieste, where the young Nino began his boxing career and would later...
The great Julian-Dalmatian champions
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia presents SO FAR SO CLOSE ADALBERTO SCEMMA TELLS THE STORIES OF THE GREAT GIULIAN DALMATIAN CHAMPIONS They are all great champions, sports people, accustomed to hard work, sacrifice and success. They all come from an enchanted strip of land, kissed by the sun and the sea, but mortified by history, by unfortunate pacts and by the painful experience of exile. All of them have honored the roots of their land, all of them, so far away and yet ideally always so close to their roots, have honored sport in its maximum expression. These are their...
Documentary film on the Exodus and the Race of Remembrance
Due to the pandemic, the Corsa del Ricordo 2021 was held in virtual mode. In the end, even if in a different way than usual, the event achieved its goal by registering the participation of athletes from all over Italy and abroad who wanted to honor in a sporting way the noble purposes that the event sets itself. The organizers wanted, on this special occasion, to create a docufilm - which will be released, in preview by the Adnkronos agency, on Friday 19 March. Visible on the homepage from 10:30 am - which tells the sad events of the foibe and the tragedy of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus as well as the sporting history of the Corsa...
Norma Cossetto and Nino Benvenuti's comics in English
The foibe, the anti-Italian violence, the drama of the exodus but also the redemption... For the first time translated into English, in an international edition, the comic book story of the eastern Italian border through the works of the publisher Ferrogallico: "Blood of Istria - Norma Cossetto, an Italian story" Norma Cossetto, a 23-year-old student, was tortured, raped and thrown into a foiba in September 1943 by Yugoslavian communist partisans. The indescribable violence against Italians in Istria, culminating in two terrible outbursts made of deportation, summary executions, torture, drownings and people being thrown into the foibe – the first one in the months following the 8th of...
The story of Norma Cossetto and Nino Benvenuti for schools
A handout by Guido Rumici and two comics published by Ferrogallico to learn about the history of the eastern Italian border The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Association Giuliani nel Mondo represent a solid hub of aggregation in contemporary Trieste; their common roots are born in the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus and, while the first branches out in Italy with committees and delegations, the other expands throughout the world with its clubs. Both of their spatial dimensions are characterized by a particular propensity for the formation of culture, which they convey in neighboring environments through pamphlets, periodicals and studies...
Nino Benvenuti's Exodus in Comics
Nino Benvenuti - Mario Grimaldi, Nino Benvenuti. My exodus from Istria, drawings by Giuseppe Botte, afterword by Emanuele Merlino, Ferrogallico, Milan 2020. The comic autobiography of Nino Benvenuti, one of the greatest Italian boxers of all time, is the story of a boy and his dream, but also of a drama… The drama of the Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia forced to exodus, after the Second World War, to escape the terrible violence, murders, sinkholes unleashed by Tito's Yugoslav communist troops. Nino Benvenuti, from Istria, is the symbol of redemption: his unforgettable conquest of the gold medal at the Olympics...
Nino Benvenuti: «My life, a film with Istria and Trieste always in my heart»
The great boxing champion on the eve of his birthday «The family I was born into is the secret of my success» by Guido Barella - 19/04/2018 Nino Benvenuti, in a few days, on April 26, he will be 80 years old. Eighty years of a story that began in Istria, on his Island... A lovely, magnificent town. We left, exiles, when I was in middle school, and yet the memories have remained intact. My parents were fish merchants but also farmers, we had four fields and we made excellent wine: I grew up with the products of the land, grown by us. Dad had built a house at the entrance to the town while my grandparents' house, four floors of its own...
Nino Benvenuti: I need your help to tell my Istria
Dear friends, if math is not an opinion, on April 26th I will be 80 years old. I have climbed into a ring over 200 times and I have so many memories, many of which I have shared with you. Do you remember how many of us there were on the night of April 17th 1967? Together with me, in the ring, there were ideally 18 million Italians, with their ears glued to the radio for Paolo Valenti's live broadcast, rejoicing for the conquest, at Madison Square Garden in New York, of the world middleweight title. But there is one memory, above all, to which I am particularly attached. It is that of our land. Of Istria, of Dalmatia. I would like to make a contribution to this land, to continue to keep alive the...
