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May 9, 2015

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

Tom Verso

“Poetry is not to be regarded seriously as attaining to the truth…” (Plato). /// /// Normally I would not consider an article on Climate Change an appropriated topic for a...

April 26, 2015

Catholic Church joins the Protestant Reformation…Italian American Louie Verrecchio Explicator of 1965 Vatican II Council

Tom Verso

For one-thousand and nine-hundred sixty five years, the Theology, Moral Teachings and Ritual of the Catholic Church were universally accepted by all members of the Church (Clergy...

April 2, 2015

PBS “Italian Americans” Documentary Perpetuates Garibaldi Myth … Poor Donna Gabaccia – “Sandbagged” or OMG! she doesn’t know?!?

Tom Verso

Is there any Euro-American people so systematically denied their European history and heritage as the southern-Italian Americans?

March 17, 2015

Camille Paglia & Tom Wolfe … Two Approaches to Modern Art

Tom Verso

Both Paglia and Wolfe have written brilliant commentaries on Modern Art: Paglia’s “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars”, and Wolfe’s “The...

February 23, 2015

“Italian Signs” of Italian American Scholars: Genovese, Lentricchia, DiLorenzo, Parenti and Paglia … Outsiders – Inside Academia

Tom Verso

The work of some of the most renowned Italian American humanities and social science scholars reveals little if any American Italianita – per se. This is to say: humanities...

February 13, 2015

Rome’s Thousand Year ‘Battle With The Gods’ in Southern Italy and Sicily … The Birth of Christendom (aka Western Civilization)

Tom Verso
A Child of the Syriac Civilization was Born – who would replace the Roman ‘Establishment’ with His Bishops and the Empire with His Church.

Italy, from Rome south thru Sicily, was the vortex of ancient Mediterranean cultures, the place where the vast and various cultures of the Mediterranean Basin from Spain over to...

January 3, 2015

Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel II … With Heroes Like These Who Needs Enemies? ... ‘Court Historians’ and Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”

Tom Verso
Garibaldi ----------------- scene from "Li chiamarono... briganti!" (They called them... brigands!) ------- Victor Emanuel

In Palermo, a major boulevard is named “Via Vittorio Emanuele”; there is the “Teatro Garibaldi” and “Via Garibaldi”. Similarly, in Naples’ center is “Garibaldi...

November 22, 2014

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

Tom Verso
Top: "American Girl in Italy" (Florence); Bottom Rt.: Poster for 1967 movie version of Brancati's book

The relentless theme of this blog is the profound irony that in the country with near seventeen million southern-Italian Americans there are no dedicated university Patria...

October 30, 2014

Lu Sicilianu … Its Origins and Evolution

Tom Verso

The education system is THE most important instrument in the Terroni-izing process (as per Pino Apriel’s book "Terroni" and discussed repeatedly on this blog) whereby the...

October 16, 2014

Sicel-Sicilians and the Birth of Sicilian Culture

Tom Verso
"Jouneying to the Godedess" http://journeyingtothegoddess.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/goddess-hybla/

Most histories of Sicily make a passing almost obligator comment about the three ‘Original Sicilians’ encounter by the Greeks when they began colonizing the island in 735 B.C..

September 26, 2014

Terroni-ism in Sicily Today

Tom Verso

Consistent with the theme of this blog (i.e. the Mediterranean heritage of near seventeen million Americans of southern Italian descent), the first sentence in the abstract of a...

September 7, 2014

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

Tom Verso

Legendary Italian-American scholar Fred Gardaphe, himself a candidate for beatification, says: “Gaetano Cipolla should be elected the secular saint of Sicily … the American...

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