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Re-release of Ezio Mestrovich's "Foiba in Autumn"
During a long, unnaturally mild autumn, a severed, semi-decomposed head is discovered by a sheepdog on the eastern slopes of Mount Učka, overlooking the city of Rijeka, Croatia. The decapitated body lies at the mouth of a foiba, one of the karst caves infamous for summary executions after World War II. Soon, another chained corpse emerges from the waters of the Liburnian Riviera, a place of ancient Habsburg glories and today's mass tourism, and with it the immediate suspicion that the two murders are connected. In the background, the newly formed Croatia of the early 2000s, with the scars of...
Awarded to Mauro Sambi, poet of the Italian community of the Eastern Adriatic
Mauro Sambi, a chemist by profession - a discipline he teaches at the University of Padua - but a lifelong lover of poetry, confirms his vocation for the word in verse by winning the 71st LericiPea "Edito" Award with the collection "Cura", published by the Vicenza-based publishing house Ronzani. The popular jury of the Ligurian award, which boasts a long history and a particularly prestigious list of winners, preferred Sambi - born in Pola in 1968 - to the other two finalist poets indicated by the technical jury, Roberto Deidier (who came in second) and Laura Accerboni (who came in third). Sambi also wanted to emphasize his pride in being on that stage also as a representative of the...
Istrian communists said "Titoists worse than fascists"
The publisher Ronzani continues its meritorious work of recovery and dissemination of the autochthonous Italian literature of the Eastern Adriatic. After a trilogy dedicated to Nelida Milani and her perspectives on the life of those "left behind" in Communist Yugoslavia, it is the turn of the poet from Rovinj Ligio Zanini, whose autobiography Martin Muma dwells extensively on the inhuman conditions in which the "Cominformist" Communists ended up in the gulag of Goli Otok (the Bare Island), those who recognized the supreme authority of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Cominform (coordination body between the Communist parties) even after the Tito/Stalin split in the summer...
Ronzani publishes “Chronicle of the Shacks” by Nelida Milani
By the author from Pola, one of the protagonists of the Eastern Adriatic narrative, edited by Mauro Sambi, “L'osteria della Parenzana” (15 April), “Agnus Dei” (13 May) and “La partita” (16 June) are published, Ronzani Editore for the literature of the Italians of Istria: the project begins with “Cronaca delle Baracche” a collection of the works of Nelida Milani in three volumes. The writer Nelida Milani is the first protagonist of the project with which Ronzani Editore intends to support the rediscovery and diffusion of the literature produced by the community of Italians who remained to live in Istria and Fiume after the Second World War: a literary reality...
