He was between two fires: caught in a grip between the Yugoslav Communists on one side and the Italian neo-fascists on the other. This is how Giulio Andreotti must have felt when he sent a letter dated 2nd December 1950 …

From Belgrade to the coasts of Albania, until ending in Asinara where 7,000 of them died of disease and privation in the first three months from their arrival. This unknown story of thousands Austro-Hungarian prisoners, captured in Serbia and then …

Reading this book is an interesting rediscovery of many aspects of the Istrian tradition that are still really current today. In fact, ethnographic inquiries and tradition recovery started over the years by Monsignor (bishop) Radole, are crucial in order to …

Funfunfèrum-funfunfèrum is like a game made of bitter dreams, a neverending identification, as much as is never ending life with a crime in history. It lays under a permanent dirty cloth, apparently not washable. If bitterness generates poetry more than …

“…with words of hope and moderate optimism, by an author who keeps his balance and he is able to be not overwhelmed by the events” “Fragments of a lesson” is a personal and coral saga, set in XX century, centered …

Zara National Museum and Zagabria History of the Art Institute published a monograph focused on the Zara artist Francesco Salghetti-Drioli, presented for the first time in Italy, in Udine, in May 2005. The work has been conceived and edited by …

Presentation Even today I perfectly remember the admiration and curiosity I had after the first contact with a Medieval herbarium in a historical and beautiful Roman Library. My curiosity was mortified by the lack of familiarity with the subject of …

The topic of this book is the settlement in Trieste and its surroundings of the exiles/refugees who, after World  War II, abandoned Istria and Dalmatia. The settlement of the refugees took place in several stages and, for the line-up supporting  …

About the refugees and their households still stored in Porto Vecchio (Old Harbour) in Trieste to realize a Museum of the Istrian-Fiuman-Dalmatian Culture. The Istrian,Fiuman and Dalmatian refugees’ household goods have been having restless dreams  for over 50 years in …

The events on the Eastern Italian border during the Second World War and the immediate post-war period have returned to the spotlight of the national public opinion. The exile of the population from Istria, Fiume (Rijeka) and Dalmatia has been …