Around a Rare Nineteenth-Century Pamphlet Concerning Italian Border Aspirations

This short note aims at highlighting a product of Adriano Colocci’s first public debuts where he already gives evidence of what will become a strong interest which he will nurture all over his existence. In fact, the marquis has a speech about Trento and Trieste, showing his rhetorical skills and his ability to persuade the audience. Therefore, these are the intents that lead him to print his rhapsodic speech with the title Trento e Trieste. Parole pronunciate nel Comizio popolare jesino per l’Italia irredenta il 21 luglio 1878. As sometimes happens, what is published becomes difficult to find and hence there is some point in starting from the discovery of a copy that can be assumed as an evidence of the beginning of the reflection, which is combined and blended with the topic of nationalisms and minorities that will be developed until the Twenties of the Twentieth Century.