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“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
Defending the Day of Remembrance and the memory of the Foibe and the Exodus
Meeting debate on the foibe and the use of history held in Rome at the Nomentano high school in Rome yesterday afternoon, October 12, with an audience largely composed of teachers. Participants Eric Gobetti (author of the justificationist pamphlet "And then the foibe?"), Tomaso Montanari (new rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena but recent protagonist of statements contrary to the Day of Remembrance and justificationist) and Marino Micich (Society of Fiumani studies - Historical Archive Museum of Fiume). In essence Gobetti and Montanari reiterated their well-known position on the foibe, on the Julian Dalmatian exodus and above all for a good part of the conference the two aforementioned guests have...
Eastern Adriatic Art on Show in Rome
In Rome, two beautiful exhibitions have been set up that also concern the history and art of Venezia Giulia, both ancient and contemporary: “Tota Italia” and “Marcello Dudovich”. The first is located at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Tota Italia, the origins of a nation, takes inspiration from the words reported in the Res Gestae of Octavian Augustus: “in mea verba tota Italia sponte sua iuravit”, with which he attributed to the Italian nation the free and spontaneous choice to fight alongside him in the civil war that opposed him to Mark Antony, expressing the ideal of the totality of Italy… It is a concept that in history appears expressed as never before...
Rome, Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic [report]
As part of the events organized for the Dante centenary, the second stage of the “Dante Adriaticus” project took place on Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July 2021, curated by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and financed by Law 72/2001. The initiative "Rome, Dante Alighieri and Adriatic Italianness" took place under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region, the Municipio Roma IX and the Dante Festival. Over the course of these two days, developed by the project's scientific committee (Donatella Schürzel, Maria Grazia Chiappori, Barbara Vinciguerra, Giuliana Eufemia...
Rome, Dante Alighieri and Italianness in the Eastern Adriatic
As part of the events organized for the Dante centenary, the Dante Adriaticus project curated by the Provincial Committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia reaches its second stage on Wednesday 30 June and Thursday 1 July. The initiative will take place in the capital with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Lazio Region, the Municipio Roma IX and the Dante Festival. For the events of 30 June, access is free (in compliance with anti-covid provisions), while the events of XNUMX July can be followed live on the CDM YouTube Channel (Multimedia Documentation Center of Culture...
The link between Rome and the Eastern Adriatic
April 21st is the anniversary of the birth of Rome, since this is the date on which Romulus founded the Eternal City in 753 BC. During its development, the dominions of the City would also have reached the coasts of the eastern Adriatic, subjugating the Histri and the Illyrians and defeating the pirates who nested on the Dalmatian coast. From the Arena of Pula to the Palace of Diocletian in Split, passing through Aquileia and ancient Tergeste, there are many monuments that remind us of this ancient presence, which the institution of the X Regio in the Augustan age would have inextricably linked to the Italian territory. The research and valorization of these testimonies of belonging to the...
Remembrance Day and the role of ANVGD
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, present in Rome since 1947 in the Giuliano-Dalmata district, where the headquarters is still present and active, boasts a branched and operational structure throughout the national territory. Prof. Donatella Schürzel, President of the provincial committee of Rome of the ANVGD Rome and national deputy vice president, talks about it in the context of her speech for the platform of the Multimedia Documentation Center of the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2021, illustrating its functions and activities and retracing, with her testimony, the past to reach the...
The Jew from Fiume Gianni Polgar tells the story of the Shoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day. The "Terenzio Mamiani" High School in Rome organized an online conference in collaboration with the Society of Fiumani Studies - Historical Museum Archive of Rijeka by Stella Defranza - 23/01/2021 Source: La Voce del Popolo Many important yet painful topics were touched upon during the online conference entitled "Remembering the Shoah", organized by the "Terenzio Mamiani" State High School in Rome in collaboration with the Society of Fiumani Studies and the Historical Museum Archive of Rijeka to remember the victims of the Holocaust. The initiative was organized with the patronage of the Lazio Region. The contact person for the Memory Project, the teacher...
Aldo Clemente, the tutelary deity of the Adriatic exiles
Aldo Clemente would have turned one hundred last October 21st. He passed away in 2014 after having been the General Secretary of the Opera Assistenza ai Refughi giuliani e Dalmatiani from 1949 to 1979. Previously, he had been the provincial secretary of the Associazione Orfani di Guerra in Trieste, his hometown, and secretary for two years of the National Committee for Italian Refugees, before dedicating his efforts in particular to the integration of the hundreds of thousands of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles throughout the peninsula and who, specifically, would have found a new home on the extreme southern outskirts of Rome. They had spontaneously...
60 years of the Society of Fiuman Studies in Rome
This year the Society of Fiumani Studies celebrates the 60th anniversary of its refoundation in exile in Rome. In 1923 it was founded in Rijeka and in 2023 it will be the centenary. Remembering the Historical Archive-Museum of Rijeka of the Society of Fiumani Studies, founded in Rome in 1963, aims to be a further stimulus for a deeper understanding of the silenced history, however it is mistakenly known, lived with great dignity by the population of Rijeka fleeing the Yugoslavian communist dictatorship to preserve above all their identity and freedom. Institution recognized by decree of the then Minister of Public Education, the Hon. Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, dated...
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