Joyce's Trieste (1904-1915, 1919-1920)
Here you will find material on James Joyce during his stay in Trieste and on the city of his time.
Pages on Major Tweedy's Neighborhood
Trieste Town Plan, 1905
Download Files of Trieste Town Plan
Available from this website are three files of the background for the above map: Trieste_1905.jpg (775 mb), Trieste_1905_Marked.jpg (670 kb), Trieste_1905_Trans.png (8.0 mb). These files are from a high resolution scan (1200 dpi) of a map in the Baedeker guide for Austria-Hungary, 1911 and cover an area wider than displayed above. They do not contain the labels and icons of the above graphic. Trieste_1905 is an unmarked jpeg. The marked version is in grayscale and has multiple longitude and latitude points for georeferencing the jpeg or png file. The "trans" png file has a transparent background and waterbodies shaded blue.
Joyce's Residences in Trieste
Move-In Date | Address |
| March 1905 | Piazza Ponte Rosso 3 |
| May 1905 | Via s. Nicolo 30 |
February 1906 | Via Giovanni Boccaccio 1 |
| July 1906 | To Rome |
| April 1907 | Via Nuova 45 |
| August 1907 | Via S. Caterina 1 |
| April 1909 | Via Vincenzo Scussa 8 |
| August 1910 | Via Della Barriera Vecchia 32 |
| September 1912 | Via Donato Bramante 4 |
| June 1915 | To Zurich, Switzerland |
| October 1919 | Via Della Sanita 2 |
| July 1920 | To Paris, France |
Trieste Today
Videos on YouTube
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A four minute video produced by Crane TV. Presented by Peter Brown, founder of the British School in Trieste. The video is preceded by an advertisement which after a few seconds you can skip.
A three minute video produced by Trieste Citta Digitale with additional funding by Regione Friuli-Venezia-Giulia. You may also watch this video on the player below.
Links to Other Websites
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"Trieste" page of the website. The Maritime Heritage Project "was started in 1998 to honor sea captains including the project director's great-great-grandfather, James H. Blethen." The project's founder and director is D. Blethen Adams Levy.
"The James Joyce and Trieste" page of the website. Use the "hamburger" menu in the upper-right to navigate to the sub-pages. This small museum, located at Via della Madonna del Mare 13, opened in 2004 and is curated by the Joycean scholar, Erik Schneider.
English translation of Bruni's lecture about Joyce in Trieste. James Joyce Quarterly 14, No. 2 (Winter 1977):127-59.
The above link is to the article in the JSTOR database. If you do not have institutional access to JSTOR you can get free personal access which allows you to read six articles per month.
"The Trieste of James Joyce" webpage of the Trieste Itinerant, a joint endeavor of the City of Trieste and the University of Trieste. It has many historic photographs of places associated with Joyce. The link is to the English-language webpage. For a tour map in a two-page pdf, click here.
Paper by Christopher Whalen in Exiles, Emigres and Intermediaries: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions edited by Barbara Schaff (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010). Scroll down to read the text without downloading the pdf. The above link is to the website of Academia, Inc. a U.S. corporation that "provides a platform for academics to share research papers."
