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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...
Anna Marsich Bandiera, mother of the heroic brothers
Unknown to most and merely mentioned in history books, Anna Marsich Bandiera acquires a special role in the history of the Italian Risorgimento not only for being the mother of the Bandiera brothers shot in the Vallone di Rovito di Cosenza but also for understanding and knowing the family and historical-social environment of the time. The quiet life of the Venetian noblewoman, firm in her ideals of loyalty to Austria, is upset by the madness of her two sons who, exiled in Corfu, pursue ideals of unity and freedom from foreigners. She will begin her journey in the Italy of the Risorgimento that will always take her incognito up to Cosenza where she will see, alas, Attilio...
May 24, 1915, Fourth War of Independence
For the Italians still subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as residents in the unredeemed lands (Trentino, Venezia Giulia, Fiume and Dalmatia) as for a large part of the interventionist front, what contemporaries called the Great War actually represented a Fourth War of Independence, the completion of the Risorgimento path that stopped at the Breach of Porta Pia (September 20, 1870) and then set aside due to the commitment of the Kingdom of Italy in colonial adventures and adherence to the Triple Alliance. This continuity with the Risorgimento struggles and the recognition finally of the requests brought forward by the irredentists resident on both sides...
March 1848 a hope for Istria
On March 17, 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was born, even though the Veneto, Friuli (which would be annexed 5 years later with the Third War of Independence), Lazio (Breccia di Porta Pio on September 20, 1870), Trentino, Venezia Giulia, Fiume and Dalmatia (for which Italy would enter the First World War) were missing for national unification. We propose a contribution by Claudio Fragiacomo, councilor of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia of Milan (Anvgd) on the theme of the "March 1848" riots. by Claudio Fragiacomo - 16/03/2021 Source: Varese In Luce After a few decades of dark, hateful Austrian government, which had Count Stadion admit,...
Eastern border
Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels, Eastern Border. Italians and Slavs on the Amarissimo from the Risorgimento to the Exodus, Eclettica, Massa 2020, 212 pp. This book, with a preface by the editor-in-chief of the magazine Storia In Rete Emanuele Mastrangelo, addresses the issue of relations between Italians and Slavs on the eastern border from the Risorgimento period to the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, passing through the crucial points of the period between the two wars and the occupation and repression in the Balkans, about which many falsehoods, even more than inaccuracies, have been written with the aim of justifying the ethnic cleansing practiced by the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army in the territories of...
Istrians and Dalmatians in defense of San Marco
170 years ago, what historians called “the Spring of the Peoples” occurred: the ideals of the French Revolution that thirty years of Restoration had failed to repress and that had already shown a certain vitality in the XNUMXs, leading to the independence of Greece, resurfaced. The triad of liberty, equality and brotherhood was condensed in the concept of “nation”, capable of jeopardizing the stability of multinational empires, together with the request for liberal reforms by the bourgeois classes that were protagonists of the industrial revolution. In Italy, which the Congress of Vienna had divided into States and...
