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South of Rome-West of Ellis Island....BLOG INDEX

South of Rome-West of Ellis Island....BLOG INDEX

Tom Verso (May 24, 2011)
From South of Rome to West of Ellis Island

List of blog articles and ‘links’ by category in mostly reverse chronology...last update 7/18/16

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Sicily - Historical Essays ... index
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/41499/sicily-historical-essays-index
July 15, 2016

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 Mafia Studies   

Mafia-ology: The Terroni-ization of Southern-Italian Americans … A Gramsci Hegemony/Culture War Analysis
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36958/mafia-ology-terroni-ization-southern-italian-americans-gramsci-hegemony-culture-war-a
November 17, 2013

“Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style” by Letzia Paoli … Brilliant Social Scientific History – Absolutely!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36821/mafia-brotherhoods-organized-crime-italian-style-letzia-paoli-brilliant-social-scient
October 22, 2013

 
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36717/mafia-studies-subjective-representations-vs-objective-realities
October 4, 2013 

Robert M. Lombardo’s book: “Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond Mafia” … Or, in short, “Chicago = America”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36305/robert-m-lombardo-s-book-organized-crime-chicago-beyond-mafia-or-short-chicago-americ
July 2, 2013

Prostitutes and Lemon Trees: John Dickie’s ‘New Mafia Historiography’ Fails Without Social Science –The Class Character of Crime
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35753/prostitutes-and-lemon-trees-john-dickie-s-new-mafia-historiography-fails-without-soci
April 10, 2013
 
Mafia – the Origins and Meaning of the ‘Word’ – Do Scholars Misrepresent and Denigrate Giuseppe Pitré???
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35354/mafia-origins-and-meaning-word-do-scholars-misrepresent-and-denigrate-giuseppe-pitr
February 10, 2013
 
Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/8348/mafia-justice-puzo-and-aeschylus
March 31, 2009
 
Bob Giraldi’s movie “Dinner Rush”: The future (if any) of Italian American culture
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1634/bob-giraldi-s-movie-dinner-rush-future-if-any-italian-american-culture
April 13, 2008
 
Plato and Mafia Movies
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11729/plato-and-mafia-movies
November 6, 2009 

Terroni
Paul Piccone – Natural Born Intellectual … Terroni Surprise: 19th Century Neapolitan Origins of 20th Century Italian Philosophy
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39986/paul-piccone-natural-born-intellectual-terroni-surprise-19th-century-neapolitan-origi
August 6, 2015

PBS “Italian Americans” Documentary Perpetuates Garibaldi Myth … Poor Donna Gabaccia – “Sandbagged” or OMG! she doesn’t know?!?http://www.i- http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39471/pbs-italian-americans-documentary-perpetuates-garibaldi-myth-poor-donna-gabaccia-sand
April 2, 2015

Terroni-ism in Sicily Today
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38626/terroni-ism-sicily-today
September 26, 2014



Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel II … With Heroes Like These Who Needs Enemies? ... ‘Court Historians’ and Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/39096/garibaldi-and-victor-emanuel-ii-heroes-these-who-needs-enemies-court-historians-and-n
January 3, 2015

 

“Siciliana” … The Book Every Sicilian-American Should Read! … But Can’t! … Too Little Education – Too Many Terroni-ized Teachers

http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38523/siciliana-book-every-sicilian-american-should-read-can-t-too-little-education-too-man

September 7, 2014



Modern Capitalist Concepts of Agricultural Theory and Practices … First Risorgimento Origins – South of Rome 2nd Century B.C.

 

http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37442/modern-capitalist-concepts-agricultural-theory-and-practices-first-risorgimento-origi

February 20, 2014 
  

The First Risorgimento circa 200 B.C. – The South brings Civilization to Northern Italy

http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36859/la-mia-strada-my-road-history-narrative-addendum-brilliant-nostalgic-video-presentati
November 28, 2011


 
“La Mia Strada – My Road”… A History Narrative Addendum to a Brilliant Nostalgic Video Presentation
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36859/la-mia-strada-my-road-history-narrative-addendum-brilliant-nostalgic-video-presentati
October 30, 2013    

Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”: All That Has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians of The South Became "Southerners"– a review
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18584/pino-aprile-s-terroni-all-has-been-done-ensure-italians-south-became-southerners-revi
November 3, 2011

“Terroni” and “Polentoni” – Revisited … The Culturally Lobotomized Southern-Italian Americana
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36446/terroni-and-polentoni-revisited-culturally-lobotomized-southern-italian-americana
August 16, 2013
 
“Vendetta Mountain” by C. A. Fiore ... A ‘Low-Brow’ Symptom of ‘Culture War’ Waged Against Southern-Italian Americans
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36587/vendetta-mountain-c-fiore-low-brow-symptom-culture-war-waged-against-southern-italian
September 15, 2013

American Terroni – 3,000 year Lost History of “Patria Meridionale”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16791/american-terroni-3-000-year-lost-history-patria-meridionale
February 27, 2011
 
Cultural Demise: South of Rome and American Terroni – Piedmontista Then and Now (Silvana Patriarca , Nelson Moe, Italian Studies)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18157/cultural-demise-south-rome-and-american-terroni-piedmontista-then-and-now-silvana-pat
September 22, 2011
 
Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16728/terroni-americana-gramsci-test-case-m-amari-scholar-revolutionary-statesman-vs-manzon
February 18, 2011
 
“2013 Year of (north) Italian Culture in the United States”... Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony foisted on American Terroni
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35050/2013-year-north-italian-culture-united-states-northern-italian-cultural-hegemony-fois
January 1, 2013
 
Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/20060/towards-american-terroni-education-manifesto-i-italy-s-role-if-any
March 5, 2012
 

                                                                     History

“Sicily:
Language, Art, and Culture”
 - University of Pennsylvania - February 2016  -- { Senza Storici }
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/41450/sicily-language-art-and-culture-university-pennsylvania-february-2016-senza-storici
June 23, 2016

Pre-Rome
 
Arnold J. Toynbee: “The Creation of a Literature in Latin on the Pattern of the Literature in Greek”
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40994/arnold-j-toynbee-creation-literature-latin-pattern-literature-greek
March 21, 2016

Sicel-Sicilians and the Birth of Sicilian Culture
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38723/sicel-sicilians-and-birth-sicilian-culture
October 16, 2014
 
Etruscan Origins and Language --- Possible Northern Italian Ideologically Biased History
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36431/etruscan-origins-and-language-possible-northern-italian-ideologically-biased-history
August 6, 2013

Sicily’s History - an “Eternal Reoccurrence”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11155/sicily-s-history-eternal-reoccurrence
September 24, 2009 

American Terroni – 3,000 year Lost History of “Patria Meridionale”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16791/american-terroni-3-000-year-lost-history-patria-meridionale
February 27, 2011
 
John Domini’s “A Tomb on the Periphery” – Sooo Not Saviano or SUNY Stony Brook!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19017/john-domini-s-tomb-periphery-sooo-not-saviano-or-suny-stony-brook
January 22, 2012
 
Global Warming - “Fall of Man” and Birth of Mediterranean (Primordial Southern Italian) Culture
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35258/global-warming-fall-man-and-birth-mediterranean-primordial-southern-italian-culture
 
Sicilian Dawn
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34282/sicilian-dawn
September 4, 2012
 
Mysterious Sicilians: Trojan Refugees, Odyssey Women, Ligurian Colonizers, Rome’s Founders – “Curiouser and Curiouser"
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36201/mysterious-sicilians-trojan-refugees-odyssey-women-ligurian-colonizers-rome-s-founder
June 15, 2013
 
Palermo: Ancient Rivers and Modern Streets
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/15886/palermo-ancient-rivers-and-modern-streets
November 1, 2010
 
Palermo - Ancient Walls and Modern Streets
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35498/palermo-ancient-walls-and-modern-streets
March 1, 2013
 
 “Odyssey” – Women of Greece vs. the Women of Sicily
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36014/odyssey-women-greece-vs-women-sicily
May 14, 2013
 
“Odyssey” ‘Song of Sicily’… Poet’s Images = Sicilian Reality
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35917/odyssey-song-sicily-poet-s-images-sicilian-reality
April 29, 2013
 
Step Aside Homer! "The Authoress of the Odyssey” is a Sicilian Girl from Trapani
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35865/step-aside-homer-authoress-odyssey-sicilian-girl-trapani
April 23, 2013
 
Lessons in Curriculum Patria Meridionale: Greeks come to Sicily – Causes and Consequences
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16977/lessons-curriculum-patria-meridionale-greeks-come-sicily-causes-and-consequences
March 24, 2011
 
Rome

Rome’s Thousand Year ‘Battle With The Gods’ in Southern Italy and Sicily … The Birth of Christendom (aka Western Civilization)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/39285/rome-s-thousand-year-battle-gods-southern-italy-and-sicily-birth-christendom-aka-west
February 13, 2015
 
“Sicilian Lights on Roman Origins”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1225/sicilian-lights-roman-origins
February 9, 2008
 
Science, Irony and Italian History - a “Southern Question” twist!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10391/science-irony-and-italian-history-southern-question-twist
August 9, 2009
 
Sicilian Founders of Rome (revisited...again) – The Logic of Historiography (wonkish: hate philosophy?...forget-about-it!)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19841/sicilian-founders-rome-revisited-again-logic-historiography-wonkish-hate-philosophy-f
February 18, 2012
 
Southern Italy – The Chrysalis of Western Civilization ... Diocletian’s Palace Colonnade
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/20735/southern-italy-chrysalis-western-civilization-diocletian-s-palace-colonnade
March 31, 2012
 
Hannibal Winters his army in Southern-Italian city Capua – Implications for the Obese American Military confronting Iran
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33985/hannibal-winters-his-army-southern-italian-city-capua-implications-obese-american-mil
July 28, 2012
 
Sicily and the “Clash of Civilizations”...Why Greco-Roman Civilization? Why NOT Etruscan-Roman or Phoenician-Roman Civilization?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/23693/sicily-and-clash-civilizations-why-greco-roman-why-not-etruscan-roman-or-phoenician-r
April 20, 2012
 
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – A Review: Part I ‘Gentlemen’s History’ vs. ‘People’s History’
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18721/michael-parenti-s-assassination-julius-caesar-review-part-i-gentlemen-s-history-vs-pe
November 21, 2011
 
Michael Parenti’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar” – Review Part II: “...the good interred with their bones...”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18876/michael-parenti-s-assassination-julius-caesar-review-part-ii-good-interred-their-bone
December 20, 2011
 
Hannibal and Mussolini - “The South will rise again!”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/15991/hannibal-and-mussolini-south-will-rise-again
November 10, 2010
 
 
Pre-Modern
 
 
Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19674/guy-de-maupassant-s-sicily-sicilian-mosaics-and-guido-education
February 6, 2012
 
Before Fresco...Mosaic ("True Painting for Eternity") – Sicilian Majesty: Cefalu, Cappella Palatina, Monreale
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18945/fresco-mosaic-true-painting-eternity-sicilian-majesty-cefalu-cappella-palatina-monrea
January 5, 2012
 
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: 11th Century Origin and 21st Century Ghost
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17083/kingdom-two-sicilies-11th-century-origin-and-21st-century-ghost
April 11, 2011
 
“Clash of Western and Islamic Civilizations” 2012 A.D. began circa 800 B.C. in Sicily
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34672/clash-western-and-islamic-civilizations-2012-d-began-circa-800-b-c-sicily
October 17, 2012
 
Sicilian Vespers and the history of the Flag of Sicily
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1023/sicilian-vespers-and-history-flag-sicily
January 5, 2008
 
“Southern Italy: After Rome...Before the Normans” – a history course based on the brilliant books of Kreuts and Skinner
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33832/southern-italy-after-rome-normans-history-course-based-brilliant-books-kreuts-and-ski
July 1, 2012
 
Arcane Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33800/arcane-renaissance-city-states-built-walls-around-their-cities-while-southern-italy-l
June 24, 2012
 
 
Kingdom of Two Sicilies
 
Sicily’s Revolutionary Spirit … From Ducetius (450 BC) to Brigandage (1866 A.D.) … and then … The Spirit Died!
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39848/sicily-s-revolutionary-spirit-ducetius-450-bc-brigandage-1866-d-and-then-spirit-died
June 16, 2015

Venice Independence Referendum – Predicable! … ‘South of Rome’ Implications per Silvana Patriarca’s “Numbers and Nationhood”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37768/venice-independence-referendum-predicable-south-rome-implications-silvana-patriarca-s
April 3, 2014
 
Napoleon, Ferdinand and Italian American Ancestors - “When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled”
(http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17223/napoleon-ferdinand-and-italian-american-ancestors-when-elephants-fight-grass-gets-tra)
May 10, 2011
 
Silvana Patriarca’s “Numbers and Nationhood – Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy” (aka ‘statistics without numbers’)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17515/silvana-patriarca-s-numbers-and-nationhood-writing-statistics-nineteenth-century-ital
June 26, 2011
 
Southern Italy Patriarchal Family: The evidence and critique of Gabriella Gribaudi’s
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1933/southern-italy-patriarchal-family-evidence-and-critique-gabriella-gribaudi-s-counter-a
May 19, 2008
 
Post Risorgimento
 
Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”: All That Has Been Done To Ensure That The Italians of The South Became "Southerners"– a review
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18584/pino-aprile-s-terroni-all-has-been-done-ensure-italians-south-became-southerners-revi
November 3, 2011
 
Folklore of Sicilian Peasant Culture – Perniciously ignored in Italian (Italy Ends at the Garigliano) Studies Programs
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34923/folklore-sicilian-peasant-culture-perniciously-ignored-italian-italy-ends-garigliano-
November 28, 2012
 
Sicily Travelers: L. Franchetti (Northern Italian Bourgeois) vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington (American born Slave)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18416/sicily-travelers-l-franchetti-northern-italian-bourgeois-vs-booker-taliaferro-washing
October 13, 2011
 
Cultural Demise: South of Rome and American Terroni – Piedmontista Then and Now (Silvana Patriarca , Nelson Moe, Italian Studies)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18157/cultural-demise-south-rome-and-american-terroni-piedmontista-then-and-now-silvana-pat
September 22, 2011
 
Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16728/terroni-americana-gramsci-test-case-m-amari-scholar-revolutionary-statesman-vs-manzon
February 18, 2011
 
Risorgimento’s Class Character: Poets and Scholars - Lampedusa and Denis Mack Smith
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16396/risorgimento-s-class-character-poets-and-scholars-lampedusa-and-denis-mack-smith
January 4, 2011
 
Sicily’s Class Character circa 1900 - Lampedusa vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/15755/sicily-s-class-character-circa-1900-lampedusa-vs-booker-taliaferro-washington
October 11, 2010

“The Renaissance Perfected” – Tuscany a Fascist Potemkin Village – Must Reading for Southern-Italian Americans!
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40310/renaissance-perfected-tuscany-fascist-potemkin-village-must-reading-southern-italian-
October 31, 2015 
 
 
Southern Question
 
“Southern Question” Reality or Representations: “Two Roads to the Past”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/12983/southern-question-reality-or-representations-two-roads-past
January 31, 2010
 
Why They Came – Italy’s Shame
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/9036/why-they-came-italy-s-shame
May 5, 2009
 
Child Slavery in Sicily 1910
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1066/child-slavery-sicily-1910
January 13, 2008
    
Contemporary Issues
 
Professor Cosetta Seno asks: …“Who Did It? The Mysterious Murder of the History of Italian Literature” … [part 1 of 2] 
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40760/professor-cosetta-seno-asks-who-did-it-mysterious-murder-history-italian-literature-p
February 12 , 2016

Professor Cosetta Seno asks: …“Who Did It? The Mysterious Murder of the History of Italian Literature” … [part2 of 2]
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40878/professor-cosetta-seno-s-asks-who-did-it-mysterious-murder-history-italian-literature
March 2, 2016

Menighetti & Nicastro’s “History of Autonomous Sicily (1947-2001)” … Sicily’s Tragic Flaw?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38265/menighetti-nicastro-s-history-autonomous-sicily-1947-2001-sicily-s-tragic-flaw
June 20, 2014

Italy Bows to Northern Europeans – The Bourbons Avenged
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18805/italy-bows-northern-europeans-bourbons-avenged
December 4, 2011
 
 
Sicilian Responses....United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit ... Plato, Lempedusa and Sciascia
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34452/sicilian-responses-united-states-court-appeals-seventh-circuit-plato-lempedusa-and-sc
September 23, 2012
 
“2013 Year of (north) Italian Culture in the United States”... Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony foisted on American Terroni
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35050/2013-year-north-italian-culture-united-states-northern-italian-cultural-hegemony-fois
January 1, 2013
 
The Mussolini Contradiction - Boston’s North End “Street Corner Society”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/15536/mussolini-contradiction-boston-s-north-end-street-corner-society
September 28, 2010
 
Saviano & Roubini – Do New York ... Literati love the ‘Shtick’ ”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18903/saviano-roubini-do-new-york-literati-love-shtick
December 26, 2011
 
The Italian Election: American Voters and “The Southern Question”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1749/italian-election-american-voters-and-southern-question
April 24, 2008
 
 Education
Southern-Italian American Studies

“Brooklyn Existentialism: …” A Great Must Read Book – but Flawed by Authors’ Excessive Ambition and Confused Metaphysics
http://www.i-http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40503/brooklyn-existentialism-great-must-read-book-flawed-authors-excessive-ambition-and-co
December 29, 2015
 
To Educate Italian American Children…or NOT??
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/8870/educate-italian-american-children-or-not
April 23, 2009
 
“Italian Studies: Northern Italian “Ivory Towers” Southern Italian Americana – Patterns of Italian Translations”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18228/italian-studies-northern-italian-ivory-towers-southern-italian-americana-patterns-ita
September 27, 2011
 
 “Chickens come home to roost” – Italian Studies suffers consequences for aversion to Patria Meridionale.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16911/chickens-come-home-roost-italian-studies-suffers-consequences-aversion-patria-meridio
March 16, 2011
 
Towards an American Terroni “Education Manifesto” – i-Italy’s role (if any)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/20060/towards-american-terroni-education-manifesto-i-italy-s-role-if-any
March 5, 2012
 
When ‘Military Wars’ end … then ‘Culture Wars’ begin
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36363/when-military-wars-end-then-culture-wars-begin
July 17, 2013
 
Fighting the “Better Fight”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10420/fighting-better-fight
August 11, 2009
 
Towards an Italian American Curriculum - Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” is a pedagogical gold mine.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/9418/towards-italian-american-curriculum-lampedusa-s-leopard-pedagogical-gold-mine
May 27, 2009
 
Why was John Dickie the "Keynote Speaker" at the 2012 American Association Italian Studies Conference?...Is it a WOMEN's THING"?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35618/why-was-john-dickie-keynote-speaker-2012-american-association-italian-studies-confere
March 23, 2013
 
“Terroni” and “Polentoni” – Revisited … The Culturally Lobotomized Southern-Italian Americana
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36446/terroni-and-polentoni-revisited-culturally-lobotomized-southern-italian-americana
August 16, 2013
Language

Lu Sicilianu … Its Origins and Evolution
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38827/lu-sicilianu-its-origins-and-evolution
October 31, 2014 
 
Joseph F. Privitera: Creative Sicilian Language Teacher...Towards a Southern-Italian American Curriculum
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34039/joseph-f-privitera-creative-sicilian-language-teacher-towards-southern-italian-americ
August 6, 2012
 
 
Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16517/sicilian-and-southern-italian-languages-lessons-norway-and-ireland
January 19, 2011
 
Tuscan ‘lingua franca’ Dialect vs. southern-Italian ‘indigenous’ Languages
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16467/tuscan-lingua-franca-dialect-vs-southern-italian-indigenous-languages
January 13, 2011
 
Archeology of Language: Sicilian ‘Beddu’ and Arabic ‘Badu’
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/15317/archeology-language-sicilian-beddu-and-arabic-badu
August 29, 2010
 
Catholic Commentary

 Catholic Church joins the Protestant Reformation…Italian American Louie Verrecchio Explicator of 1965 Vatican II Council
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39637/catholic-church-joins-protestant-reformation-italian-american-louie-verrecchio-explic
April 26, 2015

The New Bishop of the Bridgeport Connecticut Diocese – Son of Campania Immigrants, and from Brooklyn … No Less!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36419/new-bishop-bridgeport-connecticut-diocese-son-campania-immigrants-and-brooklyn-no-les
August 1, 2013
 
His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani…The Second Vatican Council’s Cassandra
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36096/his-eminence-alfredo-cardinal-ottaviani-second-vatican-council-s-cassandra
May 28, 2013
 
 
The Church (re) Turns Right... San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone...Southern-Italian Americana Implications
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34096/church-re-turns-right-san-francisco-archbishop-salvatore-cordileone-southern-italian-
August 15, 2012
 
The Vatican, American Nuns and southern-Italian Americana
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33742/vatican-american-nuns-and-southern-italian-americana
June 20,, 2012
 
Art / Architecture
 

“Italy – Modern Architectures in History” … Senza il Sud o Sicilia (Surprise!)http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40551/italy-modern-architectures-history-senza-il-sud-o-sicilia-surpriseJanuary 15, 2016

Southern Italy – The Chrysalis of Western Civilization ... Diocletian’s Palace Colonnade
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/20735/southern-italy-chrysalis-western-civilization-diocletian-s-palace-colonnade
March 31, 2012
 
Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19674/guy-de-maupassant-s-sicily-sicilian-mosaics-and-guido-education
February 6, 2012
 
Before Fresco...Mosaic ("True Painting for Eternity") – Sicilian Majesty: Cefalu, Cappella Palatina, Monreale
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/18945/fresco-mosaic-true-painting-eternity-sicilian-majesty-cefalu-cappella-palatina-monrea
January 5, 2012
 
1989 Venice Palazzo Grassi Art Exhibition: “Italian Art 1900-1945” -“Northern Italian?”... “But, of course – need you ask?”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16882/1989-venice-palazzo-grassi-art-exhibition-italian-art-1900-1945-northern-italian-cour
March 11, 2011
 
The Architecture of Luigi Nervi: where Brunelleschi meets Newton
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16290/architecture-luigi-nervi-where-brunelleschi-meets-newton
December 12, 2010
 
Poles of Italian Architecture: Northern ‘Mega’ vs. Sicily’s ‘Veil’
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/16105/poles-italian-architecture-northern-mega-vs-sicily-s-veil
November 21, 2010
 
In the matter of southern Italian vs. northern Italian ART - Benedetto Croce is called to the stand.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/13467/matter-southern-italian-vs-northern-italian-art-benedetto-croce-called-stand
March 4, 2010
 
Baldessari’s art vs. Italian American reality - Ruberto and Gardarphe: “Postmodern Musings”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10537/baldessari-s-art-vs-italian-american-reality-ruberto-and-gardarphe-postmodern-musings
August 25, 2009
 
“Art for Art's Sake” vs. Italian Art, Craft and Engineering: Brunelleschi, Nervi and Gomorra’s Dressmaker
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/9995/art-arts-sake-vs-italian-art-craft-and-engineering-brunelleschi-nervi-and-gomorra-s-dr
June 28, 2009
 
Italian American Culture: Robert Venturi vs. Frankie Valli
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/8137/italian-american-culture-robert-venturi-vs-frankie-valli
March 22, 2009
 
 
Film

Frank Lentricchia’s “The Italian Actress” – The Neurotic Creative Italian American
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37881/frank-lentricchia-s-italian-actress-neurotic-creative-italian-american
April 22, 2014

Dino De Laurentiis Movie “Chino” – A Cowboy ‘Goat-Song’ (Aristotle Would Love It!) … An Exercise in Cultural Archeology
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37232/dino-de-laurentiis-movie-chino-cowboy-goat-song-aristotle-would-love-it-exercise-cult
January 15, 2014    

Aristotle, “Prizzi’s Honor” and Ghost of “Two Sicilies”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/12232/aristotle-prizzi-s-honor-and-ghost-two-sicilies
December 19, 2009
 
Plato and Mafia Movies
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11729/plato-and-mafia-movies
November 6, 2009
 
Mafia Justice: Puzo and Aeschylus
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/8348/mafia-justice-puzo-and-aeschylus
March 31, 2009
 
Bob Giraldi’s movie “Dinner Rush”: The future (if any) of Italian American culture
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1634/bob-giraldi-s-movie-dinner-rush-future-if-any-italian-american-culture
April 13, 2008
 
“Bitter Rice”, “The Earth Trembles” and “The Italian/American State of Mind”(culture)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1392/bitter-rice-earth-trembles-and-italian-american-state-mind-culture
March 4, 2008
 
Captain Correlli’s Mandolin - The dialectical unity of the Italian man’s contradictory
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1275/captain-correlli-s-mandolin-dialectical-unity-italian-man-s-contradictory-state-mind ‘state of mind’
February 17, 2008
 
Italian American Demographics
 
            Guido
 
Southern-Italian American ‘Education Attainment’ – Census Numbers ... “Read ‘em ‘n Weep”...Guidos Galore
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/34186/southern-italian-american-education-attainment-census-numbers-read-em-n-weep-guidos-g
August 26, 2012
 
 
 “Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Education, Employment and Italian American culture.”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/13367/italian-americans-numbers-guido-education-employment-and-italian-american-culture
February 24, 2010
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Demographics
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/13138/italian-americans-numbers-guido-demographics
February 11, 2010
 
            Comparative Demographics (Americans vs. Italian American)
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Definitions, Methods & Raw Data
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/12316/italian-americans-numbers-definitions-methods-raw-data
December 30, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers Income, Earnings & Poverty
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11905/italian-americans-numbers-income-earnings-poverty
November 23, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers Employment
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/11262/italian-americans-numbers-employment
October 2, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers Education: Who will educate our children?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10718/italian-americans-numbers-education-who-will-educate-our-children
September 9, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Households, Marital Status, “Mammoni” and “What does it mean to be Italian American?”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10502/title-italian-americans-numbers-households-marital-status-mammoni-and-what-does-it-me
August 21, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Age, Gender & Generations
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10313/italian-americans-numbers-age-gender-generations
August 2, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the Numbers Where we live.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10167/italian-americans-numbers-where-we-live
July 14, 2009
 
Italian Americans by the NumbersComparative ethnic population totals and percentages
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10095/italian-americans-numbers-comparative-ethnic-population-totals-and-percentages
July 7, 2009
 
Italian American Culture

Northern Italian Cultural Hegemony in the Capital of Southern-Italian Americana … Content Analysis of i-Italy|NY Seasons 5 and 6
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39907/northern-italian-cultural-hegemony-capital-southern-italian-americana-content-analysi
July 8, 2015     


“Italian Signs” of Italian American Scholars: Genovese, Lentricchia, DiLorenzo, Parenti and Paglia … Outsiders – Inside Academiahttp:
//www.i-http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/39313/italian-signs-italian-american-scholars-genovese-lentricchia-dilorenzo-parenti-and-pa
February 23, 2015

“Extra Virginity – The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil” … Implications for Southern-Italian American Cultural Historyhttp://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38081/extra-virginity-sublime-and-scandalous-world-olive-oil-implications-southern-italian-
May 24, 2014

Why did the Italians Leave Little Italy? Part II Urban Renewal:Elite-WASP conspiracy against working-class Euro-ethnic Catholics
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37144/why-did-italians-leave-little-italy-part-ii-urban-renewal-elite-wasp-conspiracy-again
December 30, 2013

So … What Happened to Little Italy? … Why did the Italians Leave? --- Part I: “The Urban Villagers”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37110/so-what-happened-little-italy-why-did-italians-leave-part-i-urban-villagers
December 17, 2013

Exploring American Southern-Italianitá (fa bella figura) – 1950s Street Corner Doo-wop singers.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35424/exploring-american-southern-italianit-fa-bella-figura-1950s-street-corner-doo-wop-sin
February 16, 2003
 
Does the Italian American Writers Association celebrate ANY writer with an Italian last name e.g. Kristine Gasbarre?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33934/does-italian-american-writers-association-celebrate-any-writer-italian-last-name-e-g-
July 16, 2012
 
“Southern-Italian Americans and the 99% vs. 1% American Class Dichotomy
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/33878/southern-italian-americans-and-99-vs-1-american-class-dichotomy
July 7, 2012
 
From “Godfather to “Mama’s Boys” – The ever degenerating southern-Italian American media image. So who cares?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/20796/godfather-mama-s-boys-ever-degenerating-southern-italian-american-media-image-so-who-
April 3, 2012
 
“Michael Parenti and Camille Paglia: The Ivy League vs. Southern-Italian American Culture”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17923/michael-parenti-and-camille-paglia-ivy-league-vs-southern-italian-american-culture
August 29, 2011
 
“Out of the Melting Pot” – The Southern-Italian American Renaissance...i-Italy.org – To Help or Not!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17763/out-melting-pot-southern-italian-american-renaissance-i-italy-org-help-or-not
August 11, 2011
 
Thinking about American Italian Identity - R. D. Lang and Gabriella Gribaudi’s Theory of “The Other”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/2682/thinking-about-american-italian-identity-r-d-lang-and-gabriella-gribaudi-s-theory-othe
June 18, 2008
 
“Mount Allegro” revisited in terms of Gribaudi and Dickie’s historiography
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/2421/mount-allegro-revisited-terms-gribaudi-and-dickie-s-historiography
June 7, 2008
 
Italian American Culture: Illusion or Reality?
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1701/italian-american-culture-illusion-or-reality
April 20, 2008
 
Italian American Dual Citizenship and Voting Rights - "Forget about it"
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1565/italian-american-dual-citizenship-and-voting-rights-forget-about-it
April 2, 2008
 
“Italian Signs, American Streets” as a study of I/A culture through literature (strengths and weaknesses)
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1456/italian-signs-american-streets-study-i-culture-through-literature-strengths-and-weakne
March 16, 2008
 
“Off the Boat” - Then and Now
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1192/boat-then-and-now
February 2, 2008
 
‘A Precious Patch of Dirt’ - Southern Italians in Mississippi and Rochester, NY
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1005/precious-patch-dirt-southern-italians-mississippi-and-rochester-ny
January 1, 2008
 
  
Italian American Notables 
- Corso
 
Gregory Corso – Natural Born: Poet, Intellectual and “Boho Dancer” … An Extraordinary Southern-Italian American
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/40125/gregory-corso-natural-born-poet-intellectual-and-boho-dancer-extraordinary-southern-i
September 26, 2015
 
- Piccone
 
Paul Piccone – Natural Born Intellectual … Terroni Surprise: 19th Century Neapolitan Origins of 20th Century Italian Philosophy
http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39986/paul-piccone-natural-born-intellectual-terroni-surprise-19th-century-neapolitan-origi
August 6, 2015


-
Daniela Gioseffi
Daniela Gioseffi Does Climate Change … “Beware the Poets and Tragedians” (Plato)

http://www.iitaly.org/bloggers/39696/daniela-gioseffi-does-climate-change-beware-poets-and-tragedians-plato
May 9, 2015 

- Vitaliano Brancati
Brancati’s “Don Giovanni in Sicily ” … Surely No Greater Contempt for Sicily … Plato: “Beware the Poets and Tragedians”

http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38933/brancati-s-don-giovanni-sicily-surely-no-greater-contempt-sicily-plato-beware-poets-a
November 22, 2014
  

Anthony Di Renzo

“A“Trinacria” – At Long Last! … A Southern-Italian American (Pre-Ellis Island) Historic Novel … and High-Brow Literature ‘To Boot’
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37321/trinacria-long-last-southern-italian-american-pre-ellis-island-historic-novel-and-hig
January 30, 2014 

 Modotti, Dobbs, Paglia, Gioseffi
Italian-American Intellectuals … Immigrant Working-Class Revolutionaries vs. Bourgeois Progeny …What Difference a War Makes!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38410/italian-american-intellectuals-immigrant-working-class-revolutionaries-vs-bourgeois-p
July 22, 2014     

 
           Massimo Carlotto
 
“At the End of a Dull Day” by Massimo Carlotto … WOW! Talk about a ‘Page-Turner’ … This ‘Bad-Boy’ is as Good as it Gets!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/36921/end-dull-day-massimo-carlotto-wow-talk-about-page-turner-bad-boy-good-it-gets-  
November 8, 2013 
 

Frank Lentricchhia

Lentricchia’s “The Sadness of Antonioni” –A Segue Novel from High-Brow “Italian Actress” to Pop-Gangster “Eliot Conte Mysteries”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37940/lentricchia-s-sadness-antonioni-segue-novel-high-brow-italian-actress-pop-gangster-el
May 1, 2014

Frank Lentricchia’s “The Italian Actress” – The Neurotic Creative Italian American
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37881/frank-lentricchia-s-italian-actress-neurotic-creative-italian-american
April 22, 2014

“Crimes of Art + Terror”… “Magister Ludi” Frank Lentricchia’s last “Glass Bead Game”? … Here’s Hope’n
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/37614/crimes-art-terror-magister-ludi-frank-lentricchia-s-last-glass-bead-game-here-s-hope-
March 15, 2014


Frank Lentricchia follows DeLillo back to Little Italy Home – but not Domini to Southern Italy Homeland
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/35545/frank-lentricchia-follows-delillo-back-little-italy-home-not-domini-southern-italy-ho
March 12, 2013
 
 
             John Domini
 
 “The Sea-God’s Herb - Essays & Criticism 1975-2014” … A Song of Post-Modernism
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/38330/sea-god-s-herb-essays-criticism-1975-2014-song-post-modernism
July 2, 2014

John Domini’s “A Tomb on the Periphery” – Sooo Not Saviano or SUNY Stony Brook!
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19017/john-domini-s-tomb-periphery-sooo-not-saviano-or-suny-stony-brook
January 22, 2012
 
‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/29513/forget-about-manzoni-s-novel-hbo-series-sing-goat-songs-south-lampedusa-and-domini
May 22, 2012
 
            Lisa Scottoline
 
Italian Women in fiction: from “La Scapigliatura” to Lisa Scottoline...“You’ve come along way baby!”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/17648/italian-women-fiction-la-scapigliatura-lisa-scottoline-you-ve-come-long-way-baby
July 20, 2011
 
            Don DeLillo
 
“Cosmopolis” (novel) –Don DeLillo a Theater of the Absurd Existentialist, nevertheless a Bronx southern-Italian American
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/32563/cosmopolis-novel-don-delillo-theater-absurd-existentialist-nevertheless-bronx-souther
June 7, 2012
 
DeLillo’s “Underworld”: No Patria Meridionale History – No southern-Italian American Culture
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/19017/john-domini-s-tomb-periphery-sooo-not-saviano-or-suny-stony-brook
April 21, 2011
 
Don DeLillo ‘Comes Home’ “Game 6” and “Underworld”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1586/don-delillo-comes-home-game-6-and-underworld
April 7, 2008
 
            Tina Modotti
 
Tina Modotti – “Some Kind of Lady!”
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/8624/tina-modotti-some-kind-lady
April 14, 2009
 
            Camille Paglia
 Camille Paglia & Tom Wolfe … Two Approaches to Modern Art
http://www.i- http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/39395/camille-paglia-tom-wolfe-two-approaches-modern-art
March 17, 2015    
 
The Devil and Dr. Paglia
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/10260/devil-and-dr-paglia
July 26, 2009
 
Camille Paglia’s Androgyny Aesthetics - Why Italian Americans love the Sopranos
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/9824/camille-paglia-s-androgyny-aesthetics-why-italian-americans-love-sopranos
June 14, 2009
 
Camille Paglia: A Crown Jewel of Italian Americana Languishes in the Shadow of the Sopranos
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/9259/camille-paglia-crown-jewel-italian-americana-languishes-shadow-sopranos
May 17, 2009
 
            Frank Sinatra (But of course!)
 
Sinatra – the dialogue with Joey Skee continues
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/1904/sinatra-dialogue-joey-skee-continues
May 16, 2008
 

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