La frontiera ferita. Guerre, fascismo, foibe, esodo

The history of the Adriatic border is one of unhealed wounds. And in recent years, blood has been the reason, if not the pretext, for turning the memory of violence into a political weapon and, increasingly, has transformed the institutional debate into a painful distortion. Starting from this rift, Gianni Cuperlo has finally chosen to navigate a history that is his own from many perspectives: as a native of Trieste, an Italian, an anti-fascist and a communist. The pages that have emerged are as transparent and radiant as crystal: capable of holding together personal experience and a meticulous bibliography. Thus, the wounded frontier is not merely the one that crosses the border between Italians and Slavs, but the very edge of European consciousness itself, marked by a series of conflicts that have made it possible to build an internationalist democracy—one that is clearly in crisis today, but which it is up to us to continue to imagine.