South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
October 11, 2010
Sicily’s Class Character circa 1900 - Lampedusa vs. Booker Taliaferro Washington
Class Character of Sicilians in pictures
Lampedusa: “Of our six houses, I loved Casa Lampedusa best...its 1600 square yards was all at my disposal... a real kingdom for a boy...but my mother loved the 100 room Santa...
September 28, 2010
The Mussolini Contradiction - Boston’s North End “Street Corner Society”
The Mussolini Contradiction in pictures
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones..." Shakespeare
August 29, 2010
Archeology of Language: Sicilian ‘Beddu’ and Arabic ‘Badu’
“In her beautiful face the Berber ancestry of Sicilians is seen very clearly.
Especially with kohl on her eyes like that.”
‘Forgetabout’ Verdi in Milan’s La Scala; more appropriate for southern-Italian Americans would be Michela Musolino’s "L’Evento in Memoria di Pino Veneziano" in...
March 10, 2010
Chiudere la Porta
Please be advised that this blog is no longer active. Its been real - But, its time to wheel. Ciao for Now Tom Verso
March 4, 2010
In the matter of southern Italian vs. northern Italian ART - Benedetto Croce is called to the stand.
"The Veiled Christ" by Giuseppe Sanmartino
A second article in an historiographic series about “Southern Question” history: With the large volume of misinformation produced by media and academicians about southern...
February 23, 2010
“Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Education, Employment and Italian American culture.”
Jersey Shore Reality – Numbers tell the story of Italian American youths ignored by their seniors, under educated and marginal employed. Staring into a cultural abyss, they...
February 11, 2010
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Guido Demographics
The name ‘Guido’ has come to characterize the ‘20 something’ generation of Italian Americans. US Census data provides an approximation of that generation with data on the...
January 31, 2010
“Southern Question” Reality or Representations: “Two Roads to the Past”
For over three hundred years, the historiography known as the ‘Critical Method’, based on the logic of science, has been a dominant mode of writing reality-history. However,...
December 30, 2009
Italian Americans by the Numbers: Definitions, Methods & Raw Data
The US Census Bureau collects scientific survey data on Italian Americans and other ethnic groups. This article is the eighth in the i-Italy series “Italian Americans by the...
December 19, 2009
Aristotle, “Prizzi’s Honor” and Ghost of “Two Sicilies”
“Prizzi’s Honor” as Greek Drama
The plot of “Prizzi’s Honor” is the most perfect Aristotelian plot I can recall in any movie. Every action in the film is determined causally or with high probability by...
November 23, 2009
Italian Americans by the Numbers – Income, Earnings & Poverty
The work ethic of Italian Americans has been largely rewarded in terms of income and earnings.
In the previous six reports of this series, there was no significant measurable difference to be found between the Italian American population and the American population as a...
November 6, 2009
Plato and Mafia Movies
The poet Meletus initiated the prosecution, and poets joined in voting the death of the philosopher Socrates.
“...there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” Plato
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