The essay focuses on a momentous episode of diplomatic and religious history in the city of Fiume after the Paris Peace Conference. Fiume (in croat: Rijeka) became "free city" under the supervision of the League of Nations. But the "poet-soldier" Gabriele D'annunzio refused this decision and occupied the city, proclaiming it as a "free State" in order to ease its annexation to Italy. The case involved the Vatican, since Fiume belonged to a Croatian Diocese. Fiume's Local authorities asked the Vatican for the creation of a Fiume Italian Diocese, but this had many delicate diplomatic implications for the Vatican. Vatican diplomats, indeed, had to move on a path of national parity for Croat and Italian Catholics. Which was unacceptable to D'Annunzio. Based on Vatican and British archival sources and on other documentary sources.
Fiume e il Vaticano fra D'Annunzio e Giolitti (1919-1920)
NAPOLITANO, Matteo Luigi
2017-01-01
Abstract
The essay focuses on a momentous episode of diplomatic and religious history in the city of Fiume after the Paris Peace Conference. Fiume (in croat: Rijeka) became "free city" under the supervision of the League of Nations. But the "poet-soldier" Gabriele D'annunzio refused this decision and occupied the city, proclaiming it as a "free State" in order to ease its annexation to Italy. The case involved the Vatican, since Fiume belonged to a Croatian Diocese. Fiume's Local authorities asked the Vatican for the creation of a Fiume Italian Diocese, but this had many delicate diplomatic implications for the Vatican. Vatican diplomats, indeed, had to move on a path of national parity for Croat and Italian Catholics. Which was unacceptable to D'Annunzio. Based on Vatican and British archival sources and on other documentary sources.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
