Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Trieste and Joyce

JOYCEAN PICS 2002

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  Piazza Unita D'Italia
  S. Nicolo dei Greci
  Tempio Israelitico (Synagogue), via S. Francesco d'Assisi

Trieste and Joyce

CONTENTS 2002

1	Trieste IJJF Symposium

2	Trieste and Joyce

3	Trieste: miscellanea

4	Trip to Pola (Pula)

5	Venezia (Venice)

6	Dublin and Joyce

7	Dublin: miscellanea

8	Galway

9	Newgrange, Monasterboice & Mellifont Abbey

10	Drogheda

11	Glendalough & Wicklow Mountains

Trieste and Joyce

    Trieste is a port city at the head of the Adriatic Sea.  It was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire when Joyce first arrived there in 1905, but its citizens had strong ties to Italy, to which the city was ceded after World War I.  Trieste is now located on the Italian side of the border with Slovenia.  From 1905 until 1915 Joyce and his family resided in Trieste (with a brief hiatus in 1907, when they moved to Rome), where he earned a living as an English language teacher.  The Joyces returned to Trieste after World War I, but they stayed only briefly (1919-1920) before moving to Paris.
  Joyce wrote most of Dubliners, some of the half-finished 914-page work Stephen Hero, all of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and some episodes of Ulysses while living in Trieste.  However, Joyce's most famous Triestine writing is Giacomo Joyce.

The Chronology of James Joyce's Trieste Addresses

March 1905	piazza Ponterosso 3, 3rd floor
1 May 1905 - 24 February 1906	via San Nicolo 30, 2nd floor
24 February - 30 July 1906	via Giovanni Boccaccio 1, 2nd floor
March - November 1907	via San Nicolo 32, c/o Stanislaus Joyce, 3rd floor
1 December - early March 1909	via Santa Caterina 1, 1st floor
6 March 1909 - 24 August 1910	via Vincenzo Scussa 8, 1st floor
Late August 1910 - early September 1912	via Alfredo Oriani 2, 3rd floor
September 1912 - 28 June 1915	via Donato Bramante 4, 2nd floor
Mid-October 1919 - early June 1920	via Armando Diaz 2, 3rd floor

  Reference: Renzo S. Crivelli.  James Joyce: Itinerari Triestini/Triestine Itineraries.  Trieste: MSG Press, 1996.
  (*See also the Trieste and Joyce page of "Joycean Pics 2000.)

  There are some allusions to Trieste in Joyce's works:

The lady goes apace, apace, apace ..... Pure air on the upland road.  Trieste is waking rawly: raw sunlight over its huddled browntiled roofs, testudoform; a multitude of prostrate bugs await a national deliverance.  Belluomo rises from the bed of his wife's lover's wife: the busy housewife is astir, sloe-eyed, a saucer of acetic acid in her hand ..... Pure air and silence on the upland road: and hoofs.  A girl on horseback. Hedda! Hedda Gabler!  (Giacomo Joyce)

I expound Shakespeare to docile Trieste: Hamlet, quoth I, who is most courteous to gentle and simple is rude only to Polonius.  Perhaps, an embittered idealist, he can see in the parents of his beloved only grotesque attempts on the part of nature to produce her image ........... Marked you that?  (Giacomo Joyce)

16.0576.  And I seen a man killed in Trieste by an Italian chap. Knife in his back.
16.0577.  Knife like that.  (Ulysses)


  (*As for those of Finngans Wake, refer to the Trieste: miscellanea page.

IMAGE	IMAGE NO.	DATA
Piazza Unita D'Italia		Palazzo della Governo, Piazza Unita D'Italia.
	trs2002-013	(Monday 17 June) Palazzo della Governo, Piazza Unita D'Italia.
	trs2002-014	(Monday 17 June) Palazzo della Governo, Piazza Unita D'Italia.
	trs2002-015	(Monday 17 June) Palazzo Comunale, Piazza Unita D'Italia.
	trs2002-016	(Monday 17 June) Palazzo della Lloyd Triestino, Piazza Unita D'Italia.
	trs2002-035	(Tuesday 18 June) Palazzo Comunale, Piazza Unita D'Italia.

S. Nicolo dei Greci		S. Nicolo dei Greci (Greek-Orthodox Church of S. Nicolo), Riva Tre Novembre where Joyce used to go.
	trs2002-017	(Monday 17 June) S. Nicolo dei Greci (Greek-Orthodox Church of S. Nicolo), Riva Tre Novembre where Joyce used to go.

Tempio Israelitico		Tempio Israelitico (Synagogue), via S. Francesco d'Assisi
	trs2002-086	(Thursday 20 June) Front door of Tempio Israelitico (Synagogue), via S. Francesco d'Assisi
	trs2002-087	(Thursday 20 June) Tempio Israelitico, via S. Francesco d'Assisi
	trs2002-088	(Thursday 20 June) Tempio Israelitico, via S. Francesco d'Assisi
	trs2002-089	(Thursday 20 June) Tempio Israelitico, via S. Francesco d'Assisi

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