Caffè San Marco
The Antico Caffè San Marco in Trieste (Via Battisti 18) is a literary café established in 1914.
history
The café opened on January 3, 1914, in a house built in 1912 belonging to the Assicurazioni Generali . According to Claudio Magris , the first owner was Marco Lovrinovich from Fontane d'Orsera near Parenzo . Similar to Caffè Tommaseo, which was founded in 1830, the restaurant became one of the centers of the irredentists in the most important port city of the Danube Monarchy , as the Venetian Lion of St. Mark also referred to in the furniture. Among other things, false passports for Italian patriotic activists are said to have been produced here. On May 23, 1915, the day Italy entered the war on the side of the Entente , the café was therefore devastated by pro-Austria-oriented intruders. Lovrinovich was imprisoned in Graz-Liebenau because he is said to have evaded Austrian military service through a consciously induced eye infection.
The café was later reopened in 1918, but remained largely unnoticed for decades. Only the renovation and reopening on June 16, 1997 (with the help of the house owner, the aforementioned insurance company) led to a renaissance of the traditional café. The San Marco with its largely original Art Nouveau furnishings is also known as a literary café. Here perverse among others Italo Svevo , James Joyce , Umberto Saba , Giani Stuparich , Giorgio Voghera , later Fulvio Tomizza and Claudio Magris . When more and more guests stayed away and the coffee house threatened to close, Magris started a successful campaign to save the café together with other regulars in 2013, and a bookshop has been located in the left wing of the coffee house since then.
literature
- Stelio Vinci: Al Caffè San Marco. Storia, arte e lettere di un Caffè triestino , Edizioni Lint, Trieste 1995
- Claudio Magris : Die Welt en gros und en Détail , chapter Café San Marco (pp. 9–41), Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich-Vienna 1999
Web links
Coordinates: 45 ° 39 ′ 9.7 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 50.4" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Kofler / Roland Bettschart, City-Trip Triest (2nd edition, 2017), p. 76