2011
December 26, 2011
Saviano & Roubini – Do New York ... Literati love the ‘Shtick’
In U.S. House of Representatives – “Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Committee” – hearings on December 15, 2011, very authoritative expert witnesses in...
December 20, 2011
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – Review Part II: “...the good interred with their bones...”
Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798
Southern-Italian Americans should know the history of Rome in far greater detail than is taught in schools and represented in mass media, both largely limited to mad emperors and...
December 3, 2011
Italy Bows to Northern Europeans – The Bourbons Avenged
Berlusconi (Italy) bows to the northern dominated European Union
Now that the European Union has sent the Northern League’s favored Prime Minister Berlusconi pack’n, Northern Italians now know that Northern Europeans do not make a...
November 19, 2011
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – A Review: Part I ‘Gentlemen’s History’ vs. ‘People’s History’
Italian American scholars sitting in American university “Chairs of Wisdom” produce volumes of Chicago nostalgia histories and Florence art histories; yet hardly a whisper...
November 3, 2011
Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”: All That Has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians of The South Became "Southerners"– a review
Il Blog di Beppe Grillo – Il Primo Magazine solo on Line
The simultaneous publication of the “Roots and Branches” Chicago Italian American history, and the English translation of “Terroni” is a delicious juxtaposition of the...
October 13, 2011
Sicily Travelers: L. Franchetti (Northern Italian Bourgeois) vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington (American born Slave)
Leopoldo Franchetti & Booker Taliaferro Washington
When Leopoldo Franchetti, the rich and politically influential northern Italian, went to Sicily in 1876, he was looking for members of his socio-economic class – the bourgeoisie..
September 27, 2011
Italian Studies: Northern Italian “Ivory Towers” in Southern Italian Americana – Patterns of Italian Translations
Ivory Tower - Italian Studies Programs
“Ivory Tower” – the time-honored symbol of intellectual and cultural aloofness, and distance from the masses, easily comes to mind when comparing American university Italian...
September 20, 2011
Cultural Demise: South of Rome and American Terroni – Piedmontista Then and Now (Silvana Patriarca, Nelson Moe, Italian Studies)
“I will not invoke the REALITY behind [Piedmontese] representations [of the South]...” writes renowned Italian historian Silvana Patriarca. This incredibly pregnant clause is...
August 29, 2011
Michael Parenti and Camille Paglia: The Ivy League vs. Southern-Italian American Culture
Camille Paglia & Michael Parenti
Michael Parenti and Camille Paglia are Yale PhDs respectively in the fields of political science and literature. They are also renowned writers and speakers. Yet, neither has...
August 11, 2011
“Out of the Melting Pot” – The Southern-Italian American Renaissance...i-Italy.org – To Help or Not!
From Little Italy to Suburban "Melting Pot"
During the great post-1950s American urban emigration, children and grandchildren of pre-WW I European immigrants abandoned their ‘urban villages’ for the culturally amorphous...
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