Nazario Sauro

Nazario Sauro
Monument to Nazario Sauro in Trieste


Nazario Sauro (20 September 1880—10 August 1916) was an Austrian-born Italian irredentist and sailor.

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Life

Born in Capodistria, in what was then the Austrian Littoral (today Koper, Slovenia), he took to sailing from a very young age, and became the captain of a cargo ship when he was only 20. Later, in 1910, Sauro became an employee of the shipping company Zuttiati, connecting ports in Istria and Dalmatia to San Giorgio di Nogaro and Cervignano del Friuli.

After 1866 -when Venice and the Veneto region were united to Italy- in all Istria there was full support for the irredentism: Tino Gavardo, Pio Riego Gambini and Nazario Sauro were the most renowned between those who promoted the Istrian unification to the Kingdom of Italy. Many of them enrolled voluntarily in the Italian Army during World War I against the Austrian Empire. Some were captured and hanged by the Austrians.[1]

When World War I erupted, Sauro's Italian irredentism made him capture an Austrian vessel which he then sailed to Venice, joining other refugees who had gathered in the city and were pressuring Italy to join the conflict on the Entente side. When Italy did join the effort in 1915, he was a voluntary in the Italian Navy, and assigned to a torpedo unit, accomplishing over 60 missions over a period of 14 months. In June 1916, he was promoted Sub-Lieutenant on the Giacinto Pullino submarine, and awarded a Silver Medal.

On July 30 of that year, Sauro's ship was sent over to carry out a sabotage in the Hungarian port of Fiume (now Rijeka in Croatia), but it crashed into a rock in the Kvarner Gulf. The crew was intercepted by the Austro-Hungarian destroyer Satellit, and imprisoned. Sauro was recognized and placed on trial for his previous act of treason, and, after facing a military tribunal in Pola (now Pula in Croatia) was sentenced to death and hanged.

He is remembered as a hero of Italy. Two ships of the Italian Navy were named in his honour:

  • The destroyer Nazario Sauro, built in 1926 and sunk in 1941
  • The submarine Nazario Sauro, built in 1980 and recently taken out of service

His son Italo Sauro later became an influential Fascist official.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pignatti Morano, Carlo. La vita di Nazario Sauro ed il martirio dell’eroe. p.39
  2. ^ Jože Pirjevec & Milica Kacin Wohinz, Zgodovina Slovencev v Italiji, 1866-2000 (Ljubljana: Nova revija, 2000), 62-63; 243-250

See also

  • Italia irredenta
  • Istrian Italians
  • Risorgimento
  • Italian irredentism in Dalmatia
  • Italian irredentism in Istria
  • Maria Pasquinelli

Bibliography

  • Carlo Pignatti Morano. La vita di Nazario Sauro ed il martirio dell'eroe, Milano, Fratelli Treves Editori, 1922
  • Sem Benelli. Il Sauro, L'Eroica editrice. Trieste, 1919.

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