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Exiles twice. From their homes, from their homeland
The borders drawn at the end of the Second World War in Europe and the resulting new political geography of the eastern Adriatic regions caused a resumption of economic emigration that was intertwined, sometimes inextricably, with the legal and clandestine expatriations of populations that felt threatened from an ideological and/or national point of view. The exodus of the Italian population from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia was the most direct reaction to the radical change in social and political regime imposed on their living conditions by Yugoslavian communism. There is no actual data available on all locations, but some surveys...
Valerio Di Donato tells The Flames of the Balkans
Love and war, past and present, alternate in a story that draws inspiration from the tragedies that have crossed the Balkans, tragedies that Ivan and Mirna's intense love story will try to find a way out of. A review Having retired after years of journalism as a correspondent for "Il Giornale di Brescia", Valerio Di Donato has put his experience to good use, especially that in the context of the war in the Balkans, to write a novel "Le fiamme dei Balcani", published by Oltre Edizioni, which tells a long bloody story that begins in Istria, in the years of the Second World War with the tragedy of the Istrian exodus and with the...
Lavinia's eyes
Gianclaudio de Angelini began to publish his poems on Facebook as “posts”, in Italian and in Istriot (the Istriot-Venetian dialect spoken mainly in Rovinj and Dignano) and his haiku. And every time I read them, I admired them. And this, over the years, verse after verse, made me increasingly aware of their poetic value. So, one fine day not long ago, I decided to ask him to collect his poems in Italian and in Istriot and his lightning-fast haiku to explore the possibility of an anthology that would anthologically bring together the three threads through which he expresses himself. And here is the book. I think that as I was struck by it, so...
