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The recital “That Italy Across the Sea”
“It is not true that I, and all three hundred and fifty thousand Istrian exiles, are, were, bourgeois and fascists. It is not true that all of Istria was Slavic and had to return to Yugoslavia. It is not true that all my people are only nostalgic and irredentist”. “And if you had stayed? If with cunning patience you had remained in Istria, in your home, your houses, your stables, your fields, your apartments, would not have been occupied. All the liberators would have left, one after the other” “It was not we who wanted to leave; the truth was and is that “they” did not want us on those lands, which they claimed to erase,...
Remembering Mario Diracca, Fiume exile and national Anvgd leader
Talking about Mario is painfully necessary for me: for some time, in fact, he had entrusted me with this task, but a funeral oration is always a speech at risk of rhetoric, a risk that I hope to avoid, because Mario is here with us, he is here with the Tricolour and with the insignia of the Association of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, he is here standing among us and before us, a general who leads his soldiers and spurs them on! The flag and the insignia envelop a mortal body, giving him back that immortality that rises towards Heaven and joins the Divinity evoked in the Prayer of the Exile, that prayer written by a heroic Istrian Archbishop and read every time by...
