Starting today, Saturday 12 June, the volume by Ulderico Bernardi “Terre perse. L'amputazione della Venezia Giulia dall'8 settembre al 10 febbraio 1947” (Biblioteca dei Leoni, Villorba 2021) created in collaboration with the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and the Multimedia Documentation Centre of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) can also be purchased in conjunction with Il Piccolo di Trieste and other North-Eastern newspapers.

The illustrious sociologist, emeritus of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and often involved in the initiatives of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, was working on the drafts of this new act of love and interest in the history of Istria and the eastern border when he passed away. The Veneto coordination of the ANVGD recently dedicated a videoconference to him in which this latest work of his was also discussed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alsK4buHPBA&t=8s

 

From the back cover:

Venezia Giulia no longer exists.

Between the Alps and the Sea it was made up of six provinces: Udine, Gorizia, Trieste, Pola, Fiume, Zara.

Two terrible world wars and a series of civil wars have shattered ancient bonds of mixed languages ​​and cultures, to the point of swallowing up half of this territory in history, like dark karst chasms.

On February 10, 1947, with the Peace Treaty imposed by the great Allied powers, France, England, the United States of America and the Soviet Union humiliated this part of Italy, its intelligence and its work, forcing the exodus of over three hundred thousand citizens, mostly Italian speakers, dispersing them in a diaspora throughout the peninsula, in emigration beyond the Atlantic Ocean, in Australia and in various parts of Europe.

The memory remains, of the living and the dead. For over seventy years they have been waiting for the ideal that belonged to the Tommaseos, the Giobertis, the Mazzinis and every pro-European to be recomposed and for unity in diversity to open up to multiculturalism, and for the peace of pluralism to assert itself in all its aspiration to an exchange of new civilization.