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Sante Graciotti, scholar of homo Adriaticus, has left us
He passed away like this, in the silence of his fifty-year intellectual effort, one of the giants of Italian Slavic studies, remembered only by the Resto del Carlino and by the few pieces of information about him that can be found on the web. From the height of a century of life, perhaps Professor Sante Graciotti would have preferred it this way, indulging in the simple and Franciscan nature that characterized his entire life. The same nature with which thirty years ago he opened the doors of the Institute of Slavic Philology at Sapienza in Rome. I was the last of the young students who - without even attending his courses - sought enlightenment for my research and Professor Graciotti not only gave me everything...
The Treaty of Rapallo and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Italians of Dalmatia
One hundred years after the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo, the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles wishes to remember this date as the initial phase of a process that led to the definitive erasure of Italians from Dalmatia. The Day of Remembrance does not stop on February 10th, therefore Federesuli, one hundred years after the hasty agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) wishes to remember the date of the beginning of the erasure of Italians from Dalmatia. That fragile microcosm where, starting from the fall of the Roman Empire, passing through Saint Jerome and the two Dalmatian popes Saint...
It happened in Split, a hundred years ago
by Piero Cordignano - 26/07/2020 - Source: Il Corriere della Sera One hundred years ago in Split, the captain of a ship and his engineer were killed. Gabriele d'Annunzio later wanted the bow of the Royal Ship Puglia in the garden of the Vittoriale to commemorate this event. No one, 100 years later, has remembered it, however, in Italy, or at least almost no one, except me and the constitutionalist Prof. Giuseppe de Vergottini who, together with a few others, went to lay a wreath on the bust of Commander Gulli at the Pincio in Rome. Despite various requests, not even the Navy deemed it appropriate to pay homage to the two fallen. Who were also at the root of everything that happened...
Arturo Cronia, Pioneer of Slavic Studies and Giant of European Culture
In the splendid setting of the Guariento Hall in the Galilean Academy and later in that of the Ancient Archives of the University of Padua, the same place where he had worked and taught so intensely for years, the conference on Arturo Cronia was held on 20-21 November on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death. A name known to most Dalmatians – that of Arturo Cronia – is above all known in the academic field for being among the pioneers of Slavic studies in Italy together with Giovanni Maver and Ettore Lo Gatto, as recalled by Prof. Giorgio Ziffer, president of the Italian Slavists Association in his...
