Ivan Pauletta
Member of the Croatian Parliament
for the Italian national minority
Personal details
Born22 December 1936
Premantura, Italy (modern-day Croatia)
Died18 March 2017 (aged 81)
Pula, Croatia
Political partyIstrian Democratic Assembly
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb

Ivan Corrado Pauletta (December 22, 1936 – March 18, 2017) was an Istrian Italian politician, journalist and writer active in Croatia.

Early life and education

Pauletta was born in Premantura, a village in the municipality of Medulin, in the southern part of Istrian peninsula, then part of the Kingdom of Italy. He lived in Ventimiglia until 1946, near Italian border with France, where his father had job at Italian customs. He graduated in mechanical engineering in 1964 in Zagreb, capital of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, earning a bachelor's degree.

Career

Pauletta's career ranged from being a craftsman, a director of a factory in Pula that supplied souvenir producers in Medjugorje, to a politician and a member of the Croatian Parliament.[1]

Politician

He officially entered politics in 1982, when Pauletta was elected representative of craftsmen in the Associated Labor Council of the Croatian Parliament in SR Croatia. He continued to deal with politics in a local newspaper in Rijeka, with which he began to collaborate in 1988. In 1990 he was among the founders of the Istrian Democratic Assembly, a political party founded on the eve of first multi-party elections in Socialist Republic of Croatia.[2] In the same year he went to Italy to work and in 1993 Pauletta returned to Croatia where he became a deputy of the Croatian Parliament or Sabor. He was also an activist in Nonviolent Radical Party Transnational and Transparty and Pauletta spoke several times from Radio Radicale;[3][4] in 1997 he retired from politics to pursue writing.[5]

He is also known for the project "Terra d'Istria", or "Histria Terra", which claims an even greater autonomy of Istria from the central government of Zagreb. However, the project was never carried out, and it was indeed a reason for harsh criticism of Pauletta, accused of being an irredentist close to Italian far-right circles.

Writer

He made scientific publications regarding mechanical engineering, and he worked as an occasional teacher at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At the end of 1999 he published his first book Histria Collage or Histrija Kolaz in both languages Italian and Croat. In 2005 he published his second book The fugitive: in this book Pauletta tells the stories of various persons who escape from Istria in communist Yugoslavia to enter Italy during the period 1945-1959. With a group of authors in 2007, he published a monograph about Premantura. His fourth book, Stories of Istria, was released in 2009. In 2014, Pauletta wrote his final book Mladić iz stoljeća prošlog which translates as The young man of the last century.[6]

See also

References

  1. "Pauletta, Ivan - Istrapedia". www.istrapedia.hr.
  2. "Addio a Ivan Pauletta padre storico della Dieta". Necrologie.
  3. Interview of Pauletta by Radio Radicale
  4. Pauletta's speech in Croatian language presented by Emma Bonino from Radio Radicale
  5. "È morto Ivan Pauletta, autonomista istriano che inseguiva il sogno dell'indipendenza – Corsica Oggi".
  6. "E' morto a Pola Ivan Corrado Pauletta, deputato al parlamento croato che visse a Ventimiglia". Riviera24. March 20, 2017.
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