L'uso delle memorie: il caso di Trieste, confine culturale e ideologico nel cuore dell'Europa 1945-1965.

I studied the relationships between politics and religion around the sites of memory in North Adriatic border region in late modern age. This means that I have discovered how the National tradition developed in German and Austrian culture in 19th century, synthetically defined by G. Mosse's category Nationalization of the Masses, became a foundamental paradigm both in Italian and Slovenian civil religions of the region, until the second half of 20th century. Using both Italian and Slovenian sources, I am trying to analyze the relation of Italian and Slovenian border society with their history and memory, and how these influences had affected public opinion and collective conscience.