This article analyses the symbolic role and the meaning of the monument of Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. It takes it as a case study to study the national (nationalistic) contamination of the local cultural landscape before the Great War. Analysing narrative practices and commemorative dynamics related to the Verdi monument in the city centre, the article concentrates on the affirmation of national ideas in the multinational context of Habsburg Trieste. Through the analysis of journal papers and archive material the article presents the role of Verdi monument as one of the crucial points of public liturgy of the Italian nationalistic movement in the city.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537620932
In this paper, the author focuses on the Slovenian-Italian conflict relations during the period of the March Revolution (Spring of Nations in 1848) to the London Memorandum, which in 1954 defined the border between the then Yugoslavia and Italy (zone A and B of the FTT). Attention was first designed to the period of the formation of nations and relations between Slovenians and Italians within the Austrian Monarchy (Austria-Hungary since 1867). The author than particularly focuses on the conflicting relations and policy of cultural genocide of the fascist regime and the processes of an attempt to establish better inter-relations after World War II, as well as on Trieste crisis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537955780
The historical analysis takes into account not only the political circumstances in which the two new towns were planned, constructed and developed, but also their social construction as two outstanding ideological and propagandist projects launched by the respective totalitarian regimes. The monograph compares them with other newly built fascist and socialist towns and sheds light on the symbolic meaning of the new urban landscape and its ideological representation. It also delineates basic differences between socialist and fascist urbanism, as well as several similarities arising from the concept of modernization, which was the common goal of both regimes. The issue of today’s presentation and interpretation of the remains of totalitarian regimes or, to use a recently introduced terminology, dissonant heritage is addressed through the presentation of case studies from Germany, Italy, Poland and Greece.
COBISS.SI-ID: 280652800