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Sep 03 2022 - 09:30

Sala conferenze del Mart, Rovereto

In Journey through the Republic of Venice

Giovanni Vale & Egidio Ivetic

The Republic of Venice disappeared in 1797, but a recent travel guide invites visitors to explore it.

A common past serves as the destination for a journey through time and space to rediscover the Adriatic Sea, a basin that unites rather than divides.

This meeting will discuss the history and power of the Serenissima, the cultural and artistic legacy it has left behind, and the potential for economic and tourism exchanges that still exist today. It will also reflect on the often-overlooked past of a Mediterranean that, for many centuries, represented a unique cultural context—a region with its own specificity, straddling Italy, the Balkans, and Central Europe.

The meeting is moderated by Duccio Canestrini.

Giovanni Vale is a professional journalist, lives in Zagreb, and covers Southeast Europe for various Italian and foreign media outlets, including Libération, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Piccolo, and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa. He is the author of the Guides of the Disappeared States.

Egidio Ivetic. Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Padua and Director of the Institute for the History of Venetian Society and State - Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice. His research focuses on the history of Southeastern Europe and the Adriatic as historical and border regions between the Mediterranean and Europe, between opposing models of civilization and national projects.


Project realized in collaboration with Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Limes, and Libreria Piccoloblu.