Caught between two fires: caught between the Yugoslav communists on one side and the Italian neo-fascists on the other. This is how Giulio Andreotti, then a young undersecretary to the Prime Minister, must have felt when he sent a letter, dated December 2, 1950, to the minister ...

From Belgrade to the coast of Albania, finally ending up in Asinara, where 7.000 of them died of disease and starvation within the first three months of their arrival. The little-known story of the thousands of Austro-Hungarian prisoners captured in Serbia and then ...

Funfunfèrum-funfunfèrum appears like a game of bitter dreams, a perpetual identification, as perpetual as life itself, with a historical crime. It lies beneath an indelible, dirty cloth that seems unwashable. If bitterness creates poetry more than resolved love, the collection ...

“…With words of hope and moderate optimism, from an author who – in his balance – manages not to be overwhelmed by events” “Fragments of a Lesson” is a saga of the 20th century through the personal and choral events …

The National Museum in Zadar and the Institute of Art History in Zagreb have published a monograph on the Zadar-born artist Francesco Salghetti-Drioli, presented for the first time in Italy, in Udine in May 2005. The work was conceived and edited by …

Presentation: Even today, I vividly remember the impressions I had upon first encountering an ancient medieval herbarium in a historic and beautiful Roman library: admiration and curiosity. The latter, however, was decidedly mortified by my lack of familiarity with the volume's subject matter.

The subject of this book is the settlement in and around Trieste of refugees/exiles who abandoned Istria and Dalmatia after the Second World War. The settlement of the exiles, which took place in several phases, was, due to the pro-Italian faction in Trieste and ...

On the exiles and their belongings still stored in the Old Port of Trieste for a Museum of Istrian-Fiuman-Dalmatian Civilization. The belongings of Istrian, Fiuman, and Dalmatian exiles have slept restlessly for over fifty years in the Old Port of Trieste. The wonderful …

The events of Italy's eastern border during the Second World War and the immediate postwar years have returned to the forefront of national public opinion in recent years. The exodus of the population from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia has been commemorated in various ways ...