//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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
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
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 Metaphysicshttp://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
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 Archeologyhttp://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 Numbers – Comparative 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
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