Andrea Ossoinack
Defender of Rijeka autonomy within Austria-Hungary but in opposition to his fellow citizen Riccardo Zanella, he joined the Autonomous League, becoming an unelected member of the Hungarian Diet in Budapest in 1916.
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In 1919 he participated as a member of the Rijeka Peace Conference in Paris and on March 3 of the same year he was appointed "Representative of Rijeka" at the peace conference as the "last Rijeka deputy in the Hungarian parliament"...
Armando Odenigo
He was one of the inspirers of the "Young Rijeka" in 1905, starting the irredentist movement. His father would have wanted him as his successor in the family business, but his love for politics and art led him to journalism.
In Moscow Prisons, Odenigo bears witness to the tragic adventure he lived in Moscow. He recalls with detachment, sometimes even with subtle irony, the sufferings endured with a virile soul...
Diego Zandel
The Giuliano Village and its community appear in his first novel "Massacre for a President" published by Mondadori in 1981, which was the first to address the problem of red terrorism in Italy
He is currently senior editor of Oltre Edizioni, for which he curates the series of Italian and foreign fiction, and non-fiction "Readings of the world", and Editorial Director of M.E.A. Phoenix, a company that offers publishing services to publishing houses...
Enrico Morovich
Born in Sussak, a suburb of Rijeka, in 1906, when the city was still part of the Kingdom of Hungary
His first, significant, literary creation dates back to 1936, "L'osteria sul torrente", which was published by Solaria, followed by "Daily Miracles" (1938), "Portraits in the woods" (1939), "Peasants on the mountains" (1942) and "The green dress" (1942). In those years he also published essays and short stories in "Il Selvaggio" and in "Oggi"...
Franco Vegliani
Born in Trieste in 1915 as an Austro-Hungarian citizen, he became Italian at the end of the First World War
He fought on the North African front, then spent four years in captivity in Egypt. In the years of his long imprisonment in Egypt he gained his narrative experience, giving life to the work "Two Tales". Since the end of the war he has lived in Milan, practicing the profession of journalist...
Gemma Harasim
Born in Rijeka on July 15, 1876, she is known for being an educator of great quality, rich in cultural and political interests.
His Letters from Fiume, sent in 1909 to the Voice of Florence and concerning the political and cultural conditions of the city, are well known. The letters represent an objective but at the same time bitter examination of the dangers that threatened the Italianness of Fiume...
Lionello Lenaz
A scientist of European renown, he was born in Rijeka on 17 August 1872, two years after the city's return to Hungary. Despite the climate of détente between the Hungarian government and the municipality, Lenaz has always had his eyes and heart turned to Italy since adolescence.
In 1930 he was awarded the gold medal of the Medical Press and in 1937 the solemn commendation of the Academy of Italy...
Literature: an important premise
by Elvio Guagnini (University of Trieste)
Some recent articles (early nineties, ed.), some even very recent, have re-proposed the question of the literature of the exodus. Some have done so by...
Luigi Torcoletti
Born into a family originally from Senigallia, in the Marche region, Torcoletti was born in Fiume on 3 May 1881. After finishing high school, he attended the Theological Seminary in Senj, where he was ordained a priest in 1904, and then taught religion in public schools in Rijeka.
Combative and polemic, he opposed the secularizing currents and the nascent socialism of Rijeka. Some of his essays of the time are "Darvinism", "Historical notes on Rijeka Freemasonry" and "Will we believe in miracles in the twentieth century?" ...
Osvaldo Ramous
The figure and work of Osvaldo Ramous are linked to his hometown, Rijeka, which he lived in before and after the exodus of the Italian population at the turn of the Second World War.
He approached journalism from 1923, collaborating until 1925 with the magazine "Delta" in Rijeka, directed by Antonio Widmar. In 1929 he began collaborating with the newspaper "La Vedetta d'Italia" as a theater and music critic, and then became the following year editor...