Personaggi
Italo Svevo, whose real name was Aron Hector Schmitz, was born in Trieste in 1861. He might be the leading figure of the Jewish intelligentsia of Trieste, but this good friend of James Joyce certainly was not the only one. Other famous sons of Jewish Trieste are the poet Umberto Saba, Edoardo Weiss pupil of Sigmund Freud and Fiorello La Guardia Mayor of New York City from 1933 to 1945. Their lives are part of Trieste’s history.
As well as Elody Oblath who befriends two important writers of Trieste origin: Scipio Slataper and Gianni Stuparich, her future husband, and then Teodoro Mayer, pseudonym of Biniamin David Vita, who in 1881 launched the daily paper “Il Piccolo”.
