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75 years of Radio Capodistria
Today Radio Capodistria, the broadcaster that operates on behalf of the Italian National Community, celebrates its first 75 births. It was founded on May 25 with the name of Radio Trieste Zona Yugoslavia to become, six years later, Radio Capodistria. The broadcaster, which in addition to Italian also broadcast in Slovenian and Croatian, has become a point of reference both for the community of its territory (Istria and Kvarner), and for the large area of north-east Italy that it reached on medium waves. Radio Capodistria was one of the first bilingual broadcasters in Europe. In 1979 the Slovenian and Italian programs began broadcasting on separate frequencies. The...
Istria and traditions related to Epiphany
In Catholic countries - today - the Epiphany is celebrated which in some areas - such as in upper Istria - is remembered with the arrival of the Befana. In some countries it is the Three Wise Men who deliver gifts to good children, in others instead the task is assigned to the Befana. A tradition that is alive and still resists in upper Istria. "South of the Quieto River it was Saint Nicholas, today's Santa Claus, and arriving on December 6th he opened the Christmas festivities while north of the river it was the Befana who brought gifts to children and closed - 12 days after Christmas - all the festivities" says Paola Delton, researcher at the Historical Research Center and adds: "An imaginary figure...
Radio commentaries: Italian-speaking broadcasters beyond the Iron Curtain
Lorenzo Berardi's book tells the "life" of some Italian-language broadcasters in Eastern Europe, including Radio Capodistria Lorenzo Berardi analyses the history from the 1930s to today of ten state broadcasters and three clandestine radio stations, which broadcast for decades and some, precisely three, still continue to do so. Moscow, Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, passing through East Berlin, Bucharest, Sofia, up to Tirana, Belgrade and Capodistria: these are the cities in Eastern Europe in which there were, and in some cases still are, radio stations that broadcast in Italian. In the book "Radiocronache", the author Lorenzo Berardi tells the incredible...
Remembering the Jewish community of Piran
Jews in Piran have never been numerous, but until the 40s they were an almost constant presence. The future Morpurgos, the Jewish family that also took their surname from Maribor, also passed through here. This was explained by historian Boris Hajdinjak in his exhaustive speech that retraced Jewish history, also touching on our territory. Inspired by Zlatka Vokač Medic's novel “Marpurgi” and the homonymous exhibition set up in the Library this month, the director of the Maribor synagogue tried to illustrate the complex facets of the Jewish religion, their different origins and their fates. Istria represented the...
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...
Laws 72 and 73 refinanced in favor of Adriatic Italianity
Good news from Rome for the exiles and the Italian National Community in Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro. The Senate Budget Committee has in fact approved the amendment to the Italian State Budget Law for 2021 which maintains funding for the exiles and the minority. How important is this provision for the CNI? We asked the president of the Italian Union, Maurizio Tremul. "The importance is fundamental because in this way we will be able to maintain and continue to work for the maintenance of the language, culture and identity of the Italians in Croatia and Slovenia, and therefore for funding for schools, institutions,...
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 -...
