{"id":152,"date":"2014-09-13T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deyrupma\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-09-13T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T17:04:47","slug":"trieste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/deyrupma\/2014\/09\/13\/trieste\/","title":{"rendered":"Trieste"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the next \u00a0part of the trip I will be\u00a0working with Lorenzo Storai (his picture is below). Lorenzo is employed\u00a0by Casalini, an Italian book distributer in Fiesole near Florence\u00a0that our university uses\u00a0to purchase foreign language books. \u00a0\u00a0He’s been going through the various\u00a0lists their bibliographers have generated of titles\u00a0published by and about the Italian minority\u00a0communities. \u00a0As a result,\u00a0it is now much easier to see what these private presses\u00a0have\u00a0published or co-published and whether there are any overall themes or trends.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On Monday I will go\u00a0Casalini’s offices and review the 20 or so books he brought back from our visits to the University of Trieste and individual Istrian organizations in the city.<\/p>\n

I have the gut feeling that this nascent bibliography and brief history will prove to be quite useful. These books\u00a0belong almost in the category of ephemera. Those that have been subsidized by the Italian government cannot be sold and the rest are produced in small press runs. It was quite sobering to find out when we arrived that Libreria Internazionale Italo Svevo Di Zorzon Sergio,\u00a0the major publisher of these books, has closed, a victim of overexpansion perhaps and a bad economy.\u00a0Part of its backlist has been purchased by other publishers.<\/p>\n

Lorenzo and I met with the President of Trieste University, Renzo de Vidovich, who talked to us about the well-organized three-pronged strategy of the\u00a0Unione Italiana\u00a0to\u00a0support the minority populations\u00a0in Istria, Slovenia and Croatia, namely, education, publications, and cultural events.<\/p>\n

In addition to Dr. de Vidovich we met\u00a0Dr. Piero Delbello, the director of the Istituto regionale per la cultura istriano-fiumano-dalmata, who showed\u00a0us the institution’s publications. He also talked to us about the\u00a0events leading\u00a0the the founding of these associations and institutions: the exodus of possibly 350,00\u00a0Istrian Italians from Yugoslavia in the late 40s and 50s, the complicated issue of property compensation, and the very different experience of the Italians in Dalmatia and Istria.\u00a0Lorenzo and I also\u00a0met with members of the\u00a0 Circolo di cultura istro-veneta, another cultural organization. The president of the organization,\u00a0Livio Dorigo, gave an excellent analysis of the complicated situation of the Italian minority population–one might even call it a paradoxical situation–that involves historical events beyond anyone’s control–the two world wars in the middle part of the twentieth century and the division of spoils afterwards.\"IMG_0417\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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