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Adelaide Ristori, great actress of Capodistrian origin
The most famous Italian actress of the nineteenth century was born in Cividale del Friuli on January 29, 1822. But the artist is also partly an illustrious daughter of Capodistria, where her father was born. There was a time when Capodistria considered Adelaide Ristori, one of the most famous artists of her time, the first Italian actress to act in America, as a sort of glory of hers. On her eightieth birthday - in 1902 - she received thousands of messages of good wishes from all over the world and a visit from King Vittorio Emanuele III. Born "by chance" in Cividale del Friuli, Adelaide, to Antonio Ristori from Capodistria and Maddalena Pomatelli from Ferrara, two modest comedians of...
In memory of Bruno Maier
A great scholar, and a man - according to all who knew and frequented him - cordial, affectionate, with an old-fashioned kindness. Twenty years after his death, the memory of Bruno Maier, a distinguished critic and historian of Italian literature, a recognized authority in the field of studies on Italo Svevo and Trieste literature, but also a profound and moving connoisseur of the cultural and literary panorama of his Istria, to which he dedicated a significant part of his essayistic activity, is still alive. It is to Bruno Maier, full professor of Italian literature and modern and contemporary literature at the University of Trieste, that we owe a still...
A book celebrates Missoni on the centenary of its birth
Friday in Bologna the presentation of a celebratory edition of the volume "Missoni. La grande moda italiana" Fashion is art, in its highest and most celebrated forms. This is the thought that lives in the edition "Missoni - La grande moda italiana", dedicated to Ottavio Missoni on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, which fell last February. An anniversary full of tributes, homages from the media all over the world, to underline the imprint that the creative who left Ragusa in Dalmatia, where he was born in 1921, and passed away in 2013, left on costume. Because the Missonis - always in the plural: where there was Ottavio (Tai, for friends) there was also his wife Rosita -...
