South of Rome–West of Ellis Island
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Lessons in Curriculum Patria Meridionale: Greeks come to Sicily – Causes and Consequences
Greek Temple at Agrigento Sicily
Anthony a young American student, whose family left Sicily 100 years ago, stands at Taormina’s waters-edge conjuring images of ancient Sicilian Sikels viewing Greek colonial...
March 16, 2011
“Chickens come home to roost” – Italian Studies suffers consequences for aversion to Patria Meridionale.
Seemingly, it does not occur to Italian Studies professors that students choose academic majors in college based on motivating high school experiences. Students enroll in college...
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1989 Venice Palazzo Grassi Art Exhibition: “Italian Art 1900-1945” -“Northern Italian?”... “But, of course – need you ask?”
Southern Italian Artists: Guttuso (top), Sironi (left), Boccioni
In the 1989 exhibition “Italian Art 1900-1945”, at Venice’s (totally incredible) Palazzo Grassi Gallery, the 271 works exhibited by 48 artists included only 31 exhibits by 3...
February 27, 2011
American Terroni – 3,000 year Lost History of “Patria Meridionale”
Patria Meridionale
Scholars and Teachers are the instruments of Cultural Hegemony. In the American university system the scholars and teachers in “Italian American Studies” and “Italian...
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Terroni Americana - Gramsci Test Case...M. Amari (Scholar, Revolutionary, Statesman) vs. A. Manzoni (novelist)
Michele Amari: "I - a Sicilian..."
That only one of the internationally renowned books by and about Michele Amari have been translated into English (London, 1850), and no comprehensive biography in English of this...
January 19, 2011
Sicilian and Southern Italian languages: Lessons of Norway and Ireland
Dead Languages
Indigenous languages suppressed by a foreign imposed lingua franca have shown profound capacity to reinvigorate themselves. If the ‘dead national languages’ of Norway and...
January 13, 2011
Tuscan ‘lingua franca’ Dialect vs. southern-Italian ‘indigenous’ Languages
'A Maronna v’accumpagna
“You seem to be proud to speak the Neapolitan dialect...‘I am Neapolitan. I am very proud of my roots and I feel an intense connection to my city... And this also means...
January 4, 2011
Risorgimento’s Class Character: Poets and Scholars - Lampedusa and Denis Mack Smith
Garibaldi promised southern Italian peasants a new life – they got it!
“Orientialism” in southern-Italian Americana...The northern Italian tourist industry in de facto collusion with Italian American bourgeoisie and literati is still assaulting...
December 12, 2010
The Architecture of Luigi Nervi: where Brunelleschi meets Newton
Luigi Nervi
With the 1943 Milan lynching, northern-Italian communist vented their vengeful lust on the Fascist. However, the architectural-engineering genius of the Fascist period was not...
November 21, 2010
Poles of Italian Architecture: Northern ‘Mega’ vs. Sicily’s ‘Veil’
Slim Aarons
Palazzo Vecchio Florence & Hall of Mirrors -Palazzo San Vicenzo -Palermo
The culture of the southern Italy is being systematically obliterated from the minds of southern-Italian Americans. Fascinated with the grandiose, we are continually presented...
November 9, 2010
Hannibal and Mussolini - “The South will rise again!”
What Hannibal destroyed - Mussolini restored
The great migration of southern Italians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was in large part the result of Hannibal’s third century B.C. devastation of...
October 31, 2010
Palermo: Ancient Rivers and Modern Streets
Palermo: Admiral’s Bridge over the former Oreto riverbed.
On a sweltering late August day, pedestrians at Palermo’s Via Roma / Vittorio Emanuele intersection were perplexed when a serene man in their midst claimed to “Enjoy the cool...
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