South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
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...
August 8, 2011
Bond Rating Agencies Moody’s and S&P are advised – “Don’t be mess’n” with Italy.
For years many have talked about the biases of Bond Rating Agencies like Moody’s and S&P and the negative affects they have on investors, financial institutions and nations....
July 19, 2011
Italian Women in fiction: from “La Scapigliatura” to Lisa Scottoline...“You’ve come a long way baby!”
Southern-Italian American students have (albeit very limited) opportunity to study female representations in Italian Renaissance literature and in Italian American literature. ...
June 26, 2011
Silvana Patriarca’s “Numbers and Nationhood – Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy” (aka ‘statistics without numbers’)
Professor Patiarca’s book is a very important book, especially for students of southern-Italian descent. However, it is a very very difficult read that matter-of-factly evokes...
May 24, 2011
South of Rome-West of Ellis Island....BLOG INDEX
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
May 10, 2011
Napoleon, Ferdinand and Italian American Ancestors - “When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled”
Napoleon (lf.) Ferdinand (rt.) & “Travelers Attacked by Brigands” by
Nicolaes Bercahem
Italian America bourgeoisie/literati, acting the de-facto role of Northern Italian tourist agents, promote the Streets of Florence and Milan. While the reality of southern-Italian...
April 21, 2011
DeLillo’s “Underworld”: No Patria Meridionale History – No southern-Italian American Culture
"Little Italy"...Southern-Italian American 'Urban Village'
“No history No future” – writes Don DeLillo. Southern-Italian Americans in DeLillo’s novel “Underworld” had no history, ergo they had no future. He recreates the...
April 11, 2011
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: 11th Century Origin and 21st Century Ghost
King Roger II, Saint Padre Pio, Padre Pio Chapel Rochester, NY
The persistence of “Southern Question” issues, and the Padre Pio phenomenon suggests that the ‘ghost’ of the “Two Sicilies” state is still present in the form of the...
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