Trieste: inauguration of the exhibition “Vola colomba. Cronache Triestine 1945-54” curated by Antonella Cosenzi.

As part of the initiatives promoted for the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the return of Trieste to Italy, Thursday 17 October, at 15.30:1945 pm, at the Municipality stand set up in Piazza Unità d'Italia on the occasion of the Settimana dei Castelli, the curator Antonella Cosenzi will illustrate the exhibition Vola colomba. Cronache Triestine 54-XNUMX set up on the first floor of the Civic War Museum for Peace Diego de Henriquez: a careful analysis of various aspects, even tragic ones, characterising one of the most complex and multifaceted periods in the history of Trieste and Venezia Giulia.

The trait d'union consists of an analysis of the political-administrative situation governed during that period by the Allied Military Government and the police forces it used on the territory, leaving, however, an appreciable space also to social issues such as the Work Help for the Unemployed Section (SE.LAD) and the two editions of the National Children's Festival - in 1951 and 1953 - promoted by the mayor Gianni Bartoli as occasions to examine the pedagogical problems of Italian youth in the post-war period and to draw the attention of all of Italy to the Trieste question.

They belong to the collection of Diego de Henriquez all the materials on display - uniforms, badges, headgear, work tools, paintings, models and tables - while the documentation, including photographs, and the manuscripts attributable to the collector's archive are integrated by testimonies belonging to some of the collection's funds. Civic Museum of National History to which is added an interesting photographic album lent by the Photo Library of the Civic Museums of History and Art.

During the conference all these elements will be described and The prominent position that de Henriquez had during the Allied Military Government, when he was well integrated into the city life and into the political and economic substratum of Trieste, will also be highlighted. A reality that can also be deduced from his writings, a selection of which – exhibited in the exhibition – recounts events and curiosities of the key years of that period, 1953 and 1954.