My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
"This Little Corner of Europe": Slataper's Reflections on and around Trieste's Cultural and National Identity
Elena Coda

A Note on the Texts and Their Translations
Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda

1. My Karst and My City

2. From Political Writings: Letters on Trieste

Trieste Has No Cultural Traditions
The Life of the Spirit

3. From Literary and Critical Writings

To Young Italian Intellectuals
Futurism
Crepuscular Confusion

4. From Ibsen

5. From Political Writings

Irredentism Today
The National and Political Future of Trieste
National Rights Are Affirmed with War

6. From Letters to Three Women Friends

To Elody (Firenze, 6 June 1912)
To Gigetta (Firenze, 8 February 1912)
To Gigetta (23 November 1915)

Index

By Scipio Slataper
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Elena Coda
Translated by Nicholas Benson and Elena Coda