The famous esa m Italian and Croatian writer, journalist, editor, correspondent for Italian newspapers from Moscow, European parliamentarian esa m and Italian politician Enzo Bettiza born a native of Split. He received me in his apartment in a prestigious Roman neighborhood Parioli. In a very open conversation he revealed to me his origins, his interesting life and his greatest love: Split and Dalmatia. His novels and non-fiction have been translated into almost all European languages. Glorious his book "I Fantasmi esa m di Mosca", "Moscow ghosts". He was an Italian correspondent in Vienna and Moscow. He wrote two novels related to his life in Croatia "Exile" and "Lost esa m Book".
- Yes, for fifteen years. Our hostess esa m Mara Vujnić from Drniš. It allows you opened the door, she rises phone, she cooks, she cleans ... It's your granddaughter Mare Vujnić that held our house back when my parents were alive. esa m Mare is a fixed point of our family.
- We are here from Dalmatia. We are not Italians ... We are truly iconic Dalmatians. We Dalmatians more than anyone ... None of us are not born out of Dalmatia. The mother of the father's name was benévolo Sibenik girl is. My mother Vušković, with the island. Mark Vušković, the famous singer, Wagnersinger, brother of my mother. Barba. Mother of mother, grandmother, is Razmilović, same with the island.
- Watch out, during the Italian Risorgimento and later, for Napoleon and during the Venice we had Italian esa m culture, but no Italian blood. This is a typical European paradoxical situation limits. As for the blood - I do not have one, I have no in Italy.
- Cultural and I have a lot of Italian side, the Italian school, Italian cultural experience. But, as you said Harmondsworth, our esteemed translator, writer and publisher: "ethnically and culturally, getting it together, Bettiza the Croatian writer who writes on someone else, in Italian. And, as written? Bettiza writes - excellent. "So says Crnkovic ...
- Smoke. A little more when I write, a little less when not writing. Always under the twenty. Under the twenty. I'm sorry I'm not in the tie in the photos, but it's hot and the house is a little - domestic, especially talking to you, Croatian journalist esa m ...
- Thank you. Mr. Silobrčić, it's time for the attempt, esa m lunch, we together slightly izist? We have, most of our stuff to attempt, you know ... boiled meat, lamb. My wife Laura is in London, and we will eat themselves. We also have a smoked ham.
- There is now a hotel where "Marjan". Behind the hotel is still seeing some of the old walls of our cement plants. The Industrial Revolution in Dalmatia is, in fact, started with our factory cement. It was the largest factory in the city of Split. Englishmen from Manchester we advised and helped to set up, there, then a modern factory. Otherwise, reinforced cement in Split emerged esa m in the time of Diocletian. That, perhaps, you did not know: Diocletian esa m gave place to the walls "GRDJ" iron support. So our family and our company was very important and very related to the history and construction of Dalmatia. Italians know me ask you: when you came to Dalmatia. It annoys me, and say to them we are here always, and when you came?
- We had a house in Sokolska 4th Father went on foot from the house, over Matejuška, in the factory. Administrative management of the company was to turn across from our home, where she was and Mail during old, karađorđevske Yugoslavia. I do not know why, but all of that our administration building called "Alliance", presumably because there was some cooperatives ... an alliance. At the palace said: Marin Bettiza and son, on top of the building. As a coat of arms. During the communist Yugoslavia that are removed because they are destroyed, not only ours, even they were dismantling. So they tore down one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the Mediterranean: Sustipan. Wonderful cemetery with statues Mestrovic and Rendić.
- Lipo is food. Friends, love, youth. It is a very lively town, charming, full of movement ... During the war it was a very sad city. Secluded. Isolated. The Italian occupation was not easy. Germany and Ustasha were somehow invisible. Germans OBIS only one poor man, there at the church of St. Francis, at Prokurative ... There was no major crime, but - it was all so sad ... There are Germans, but "worn out" after Stalingrad, fell to Italy, Italians ... fleeing the fall of 1943 the Germans were already tired. It was the people that already know they will not win the war. I felt it. Quietly came and went quietly, without fuss and without cracking. Then - quietly came partisans. They built the big stage at St. Francis, where the Fountain Baiamonti. The partisans are quietly come, not as communists but as the National Liberation Army. Made this big party and put on the scene, I remember, four large portraits in sepia: Tito, Churchill near Tito, and Roosevelt and - Stalin. Churchill near Tito. It has been symptomatic. Tito was recognized as Englishmen, especially Churchill, made for him during the war.
- Italians were primijetljivi: they wanted esa m in 24 hours not only Italianize but do fascist
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