Giacomo Vuxani

After attending classical grammar school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz in 1910, and from 1916 to 1918 he was assigned to the command of operations of the Austro-Hungarian army in Albania where he performed the functions of interpreter.

On October 28, 1944, Prefect Coceani from the Trieste commune sent a telegram to Zadar, in which the Ministry of the Interior of Salò ordered the Head of the Province Serrentino to abandon the city.

Vuxani remained the last Italian authority in Zadar when it was occupied by the Yugoslav troops on 31 October 1944.

Arrested the next day on 1 November, he was put to trial several times and sentenced to death, but in the end the partisans decided to free him by delivering him on Christmas Eve to his son-in-law Giovanni Minak.

In 1948 he obtained the decree of Italian citizenship and, following the options provided by the Treaty of Peace, he returned to Italy bringing with him the "Gonfalone di Zara".