ПОЛЕМИКА ГАЕТАНА САЛВЕМИНИЈА И ИТАЛИЈАНСКИХ НАЦИОНАЛИСТА О ДАЛМАЦИЈИ И ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКОМ УЈЕДИЊЕЊУ 1914–1920.
THE DEBATE BETWEEN GAETANO SALVEMINI AND ITALIAN NATIONALISTS OVER DALMATIA ANDYUGOSLAV UNIFICATION,1914–1920.

Summary/Abstract: The paper is based on an analysis of the political views of the historian Gaetano Salvemini on the Adriatic question, shaped during the First World War, as well as his notable opposition to the irredentist glorification of Dalmatia as „the ancient Italian territory, subjugated by the Austrians and Slavs”, which was actively and tirelessly promoted by radical Italian nationalists (Attilio Tamaro, Alessandro Dudan, Roberto Ghiglianovich and others). The second segment of the paper is an analysis of Salvemini’s perception of the process of formation of the Yugoslav state, and his opinion on the work of the Yugoslav Committee and the war objectives of Serbia. As a supporter of the so-called democratic-interventionist currents and the idea of creating a common state of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Salvemini conducted a sharp and tireless polemic with Slavophobic Italian nationalists until the beginning of the 1920s. These nationalists gathered around the Pro Comitato Dalmazia association, close to Sidney Sonnino, Piero Foscari and other influential politicians, who steadfastly opposed the creation of a Yugoslav state and defined the Adriatic regions of the Dual Monarchy as Italian in advance and permanently. Although the emphasis is placed on Salvemini’s original articles and statements in the press (L’Unità), and his contacts with Serbs and Croats (Frano Supilo, Lujo Vojnović), as well as on the nature of the polemic itself, the paper briefly compares the conflicting opinions of two influential intellectual circles of the Italian public opinion on Yugoslav unification.

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