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Luigi Ziliotto, a dream turned nightmare
Today, February 5, 2022, marks the centenary of the death of Luigi Ziliotto (Zadar, February 8, 1863-Zadar, February 5, 1922), five-time podestà (mayor) of Zadar. Appointed senator of the Kingdom of Italy on November 12, 1921, in December of the same year he gave a passionate speech in the Senate Chamber against the ratification of the Treaty of Rapallo, which handed over all of Dalmatia, with the exception of Zadar, to the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Ziliotto, whose bust, together with that of the other Dalmatian senator of the Kingdom, Roberto Ghiglianovich, is placed next to the entrance to the Senate Chamber in Rome, was an illustrious exponent of Dalmatian irredentist nationalism,...
Francesco Salata Senator of the Kingdom
MemoriaWeb. Quarterly of the Historical Archives of the Senate n. 29 (New Series) of March 2020 dedicates the column "The biographies of the Senators of the Kingdom" to the Istrian Francesco Salata (Ossero 1876 - Rome 1944), irredentist in the years preceding the First World War, then member of the Italian Commission at the peace conference, head of the Central Office for the New Provinces, State Councilor and indeed Senator. Senator profile: http://notes9.senato.it/Web/senregno.NSF/a52b2f6040cae29dc125785d0059c4c9/853a9f2e8d41859c4125646f005f4620?OpenDocument Fascicolo...
President Conte speaks at the celebration of Remembrance Day
On Monday 10 February, the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, spoke in the Senate at the celebration of the “Day of Remembrance” in memory of all the victims of the foibe. President Alberti Casellati, President Fico, Minister Azzolina, Authorities, gracious Guests, this intense celebration takes place here today, today, in this Chamber, where sixteen years ago the institution of the “Day of Remembrance” was consecrated – it was recalled – by Parliament, with a very large majority. Since then, every year, we celebrate the memory of a national and European tragedy, consumed in those splendid, tormented lands of the eastern border, where – as he wrote in 1947...
Speech by the President of the Chamber Fico for the Day of Remembrance
Speech given by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Hon. Roberto Fico, on the occasion of the Commemorative Ceremony of the Day of Remembrance held on Monday 10 February 2020 at the Senate of the Republic. Good morning to all. I greet the President of the Senate, the Prime Minister, the authorities and all those present. I greet the children and teachers who participated again this year in the competition announced by the Ministry of Education and who will be awarded today. Finally, I extend a special greeting to President Ballarin and to the representatives of all the Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, whom I thank for their constant commitment and...
Speech by the President of the Senate Casellati for the Day of Remembrance
Speech given in the Chamber of Palazzo Madama on 10 February 2020 on the occasion of the Celebration of the Day of Remembrance by the President of the Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati. President Fico, President Conte, Ministers, Dear Parliamentarians, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Girls and Boys, It is with emotion and a strong sense of responsibility that I inaugurate this celebration of the Day of Remembrance, a solemnity dedicated to the commemoration of all the victims of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus. The twentieth century was, unfortunately, the century of atrocities, wars, racial hatred, mass exterminations. The...
Speech by FederEsuli President Ballarin at the Senate
Speech by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio Ballarin, at the ceremony for the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus at the Senate of the Republic on Monday 10 February 2020. Mr. President of the Senate, Mr. President of the Chamber, Mr. Prime Minister and Representatives of the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Day of Remembrance is a civil solemnity established by the Italian State with Law 92 of 2004, approved by the Chamber with 502 votes in favor and 15 against. The then President of the Chamber (Hon. Casini) stood up and concluded:...
The Anpi and the conference on the foibe
Controversy erupts in the Senate The Anpi organizes a conference on fascism and the foibe in the Senate, but politicians and associations accuse: "Denialism" by Giuseppe Aloisi - 03/02/2019 - Source: Il Giornale The Anpi, for Donatella Schürzel, has launched a "sneaky and denialist attack" on the subject of the foibe. The conference organized by the National Association of Italian Partisans at the Senate library, also for Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri, has a "clear denialist objective". Similar controversies had also been raised last year, with the same organizing group as the protagonist. But not in relation to a conference like the one planned for...
Speech by Antonio Ballarin at the Day of Remembrance
Speech by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio BALLARIN, at the ceremony of the Senate of the Republic for the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian Exodus. Rome, 9 February 2018 Mr. President of the Republic, Mr. President of the Senate, Madam President of the Chamber, Representatives of Parliament and the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. Friends and Brothers of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia, Today, here, we do not celebrate a memory of things that were and are no longer there, but the Memory of facts that have extended their consequences to subsequent generations. At a distance of...
Speech by Rodolfo Ziberna on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance
Rome, Palazzo Madama, Friday 9 February 2018, 17.00:10 p.m. Mr. President of the Republic, Mr. President of the Senate, Representatives of Parliament and the Government, Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen. On 1947 February 80, as is known, that ill-fated Peace Treaty was signed in Paris between Italy and the victorious powers, that diktat, which sanctioned the mutilation of the national territory. In addition to the Colonies, together with Briga and Tenda to the west, Italy lost almost all of Venezia Giulia to the east, with the cities of Pola, Fiume, Zara and XNUMX% of the provinces of Gorizia and Trieste. From the premise it was evident that the...
Remembrance Day Ceremony Livestreamed at the Senate
On the Rai website it is possible to view in streaming the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance 2018, held on Friday 9 February at the Senate of the Republic:
http://www.rai.it/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-520ae1ab-1189-4ef1-94e1-be72881ec1f9.html?popup
