Trieste and Italy: 1905 - 1920
Movie Poster by Tito Corbella
"This movie poster is by the Italian artist Tito Corbella (born in Pontremoli in 1885, died in Rome in 1966), who is best known as a designer of postcards of glamorous women. He also produced illustrations and film posters, such as the one presented here. The woman symbolizes the city of Trieste, historically part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Italian irredentist movement had been campaigning for the city's annexation since at least the last two decades of the 19th century. At the end of the war, in November 1918, the Royal Italian Army entered Trieste to the applause of the part of the population that favored the Italian cause. Annexation by Italy of Trieste and the surrounding region was politically inevitable, but it was opposed by the newly-established Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes [renamed the "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" in 1929] which also wanted to annex the city and its hinterland. The status of Trieste as an Italian city was affirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Rapallo. Annexation poisoned relations between the Italian and the Slovene populations, which at times boiled over into armed combat." New York Public Library, Digital Collections.
Extract from a chapter of the author's 2018 book, The First World War in the Balkans. The above link is to the subject page of the author's website which will open in a new browser window. Click on the icon to the right for the website's home page.
London: Nisbet, [1915, rev. 1918]. Downloadable book from the Internet Archive. The page will open in a new browser window.
Seton-Watson was an English historian and journalist of independent means. Prior to the First World War he was a vocal opponent of Austro-Hungarian governmental policies towards the empire's ethnic minorities, especially the Czechs and Slovaks. He took part in the post-war drafting of the new European national borders by the victorious states.
Seton-Watson, The Balkans, Italy and the Adriatic, [1918]
Italica 52 (Spring, 1975):3-36. The above link is to the article in the JSTOR database and the page will open in a new browser window.
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Historical Section, edited by G.W. Prothero (London: HMSO, 1920). Reprint of an information booklet prepared in 1917 for British delegates to any peace conference to conclude the Great War. The above link is to a page on the Hathi Trust website which will open in a new browser window. Hathi Partner login required to download the complete book.
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