Neapolitan Pino Aprile wrote, in his ground breaking cultural history of southern Italy “Terroni” ....“Through a cultural lobotomy, the South was deprived of its self-awareness.” ....Similarly, ‘Italy in US 2013’ is the most recent incision in the ongoing Southern Italian historical and cultural lobectomy. ‘Italy in US 2013’ is a celebration of northern Italy’s success, in Aprile’s words....“of depriving the South of historical and cultural awareness – we no longer know who we were.”....‘Italy in US 2013’ carries the assault on Southern history and culture to the near seventeen million Americans of southern-Italian descent; insuring that “[they] no longer know who [they] were” and made to believe that the land of their progenitors [Patria Meridionale] is historically and culturally insignificant. In short, Italy in the context of ‘Italy in US 2013’ means Northern Italy! The FACT that ‘Italy in US 2013’ is a denial of southern Italian history and culture is documented in the publication “Italy in US 2013 – Calendar of Events”; as will be demonstrated in this article.
On December 12, 2012, at a press conference in Washington D.C. the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Guilio Terzi di Dant’Agata (a native of Bergamo, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy near the Swiss border), inaugurated “2013 – The Year of Italian Culture in the United States.”
Section
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North #
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South #
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Total #
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North %
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South %
|
ART
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47
|
4
|
51
|
92%
|
8%
|
Music and Theatre
|
47
|
9
|
56
|
84%
|
16%
|
Cinema and Photography
|
32
|
6
|
38
|
84%
|
16%
|
Italian Language and Literature
|
19
|
1
|
20
|
95%
|
5%
|
Total
|
145
|
20
|
165
|
88%
|
12%
|
Page 25
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The Medici Collection of northern artists.
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{1}
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Caravaggio and his Legacy – spent some time in south as fugitive but predominately northern Italian artist.
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{2}
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Page 26
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Roso Fiorentino (Florence)
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{3}
|
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Piero della Francesca (Tuscany)
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{4}
|
|
Arezzo goldsmith industry.
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{5}
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Page 27
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Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance”
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{6}
|
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Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)
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{7}
|
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Paolo Veronese (Venice)
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{8}
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Page 28
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De Fornaris Collection:
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|
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Morandi (Bologna)
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{9}
|
|
Casorati (Piedmont)
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{10}
|
|
Burri (Perugia),
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{11}
|
|
Penone (Bologna)
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{12}
|
|
Postoletto (Piedmont)
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{13}
|
|
Griffa (Piedmont)
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{14}
|
|
.....
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|
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna)
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{15}
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Page 29
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“Keiat: Visionaria” – Born and studied in Apulia. However, her webpage (Keziat.net) list fourteen cities in Europe, American and Asia where her work has shown – not one South of Rome!
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{16}
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|
Piero della Francesca (Tuscany)
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{17}
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Page 30
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Bernini’s Terracotta’s (born in Naples; father a Florentine took him to Rome at age eight)
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{18}
|
|
Micheangelo (Tuscany)
|
{19}
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Page 31
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Mattia Preti (Calabria)
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[1]
|
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Bartolomeo & Giapeco Caporali (Perugia)
|
{20}
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Page 32
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Caravaggio – spent some time in south as fugitive but predominately northern Italian artist.
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{21}
|
|
Italian Women in the Arts:
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|
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Elisabetta Gut (Rome)
|
{22}
|
|
Lavinia Fontana (Bologna)
|
{23}
|
|
Mirella Bentivoglio (Milan)
|
{24}
|
|
Rosalba Carriera (Venice)
|
{25}
|
|
Giovanna Garzoni (Marche),
|
{26}
|
|
Elisabetta Sirani (Bologna)
|
{27}
|
|
Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome)
|
{28}
|
|
Barbara Longhi (Ravenna)
|
{29}
|
|
Fede Galizia (Milan)
|
{30}
|
|
Sofonisba Anguissola (Lombardy)
|
{31}
|
|
Plautilla Nelli (Florence)
|
{32}
|
|
........
|
|
|
Marco Nereo Rotelli (Venice)
|
{33}
|
|
Salvatore Emblema (Naples)
|
[2]
|
Page 33
|
“Italian Way” Dante Alighieri (Florence)
|
{34}
|
|
“The Dancing Satyr” (Sicily)
|
[3]
|
|
“Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting”
|
|
|
Bellini (Venice)
|
{35}
|
|
Botticelli (Florence)
|
{36}
|
|
Domenichino (Bologna)
|
{37}
|
|
Guardi (Venice)
|
{38}
|
|
Rosa (Naples)
|
[4]
|
|
Titian (Veneto)
|
{39}
|
Page 34
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Giorgio De Chirico (Greek born worked in North Italy)
|
{40}
|
|
Velazquez (Spanish born worked in North Italy)
|
{41}
|
|
“Artistic Heritage of (Modena)
|
{42}
|
Page 35
|
Franco Azzini (born in Calabria went North age 14)
|
{43}
|
|
Bice Lazzari (Venice)
|
{44}
|
|
Sandro Chia (Florence)
|
{45}
|
Page 36
|
Caravaggio – spent some time in south as fugitive but predominately northern Italian artist.
|
{46}
|
Page 37
|
Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome)
|
{47}
|
Page 39
|
Cremonese Strings (Cremona in Lombardy)
|
{48}
|
|
Giuseppe Verdi (Parma)
|
{49}
|
Page 40
|
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi (Florence)
|
{50}
|
|
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (Giulia)
|
{51}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{52}
|
Page 41
|
Roberto Cani (Milan)
|
{53}
|
|
Ottorino Respighi (Bologna)
|
{54}
|
Page 42
|
Domenico Cimarosa (Naples)
|
[5]
|
|
Giovanni Sollima (Palermo)
|
[6]
|
|
Matteo Levaggi (Torino)
|
{55}
|
Page 43
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{56}
|
|
Daniele Belardinelli (Marche)
|
{57}
|
Page 44
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{58}
|
|
Puccini (Tuscany)
|
{59}
|
Page 45
|
Cremona City Quartet
|
{60}
|
|
Roberto Abbado (Milan)
|
{61}
|
|
Emanuele Arciuli (Lecce)
|
{62}
|
|
Nicola Campogranade (Turin)
|
{63}
|
|
Gioachino Rossini (Marche)
|
{64}
|
Page 46
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Franceso Casorati (Turin)
|
{65}
|
|
Emanuele Arciuli (Apulia)
|
{66}
|
|
Nicola Campogrand (Turin)
|
{67}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{68}
|
|
Francesca Parvizyar (Milano – twitter)
|
{69}
|
Page 47
|
Cremona Strings
|
{70}
|
|
Puccini (Tuscany)
|
{71}
|
|
Maurizio Pollini (Milan)
|
{72}
|
Page 48
|
Nicola Campogrande (Turin)
|
{73}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{74}
|
Page 49
|
Cremona Strings
|
{75}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{76}
|
|
Fabio Luisi (Genoa)
|
{77}
|
Page 50
|
Pavarotti (Modena)
|
{78}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{79}
|
Page 51
|
Alessandro Scarlatti (Palermo)
|
[8]
|
|
Puccini (Tuscany)
|
{80}
|
|
Spoleto Festival
|
{81}
|
Page 52
|
Bollani (Milan)
|
{82}
|
|
Rava (Trieste)
|
{83}
|
|
Fresu (Sardinia)
|
[8]
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{84}
|
Page 53
|
Piccolo Teatro di Milano
|
{85}
|
|
Eduardo De Filippo (Naples)
|
[9]
|
|
Toni Sevillo (Naples)
|
[10]
|
Page 54
|
Pino Daniele (Naples)
|
[11]
|
|
Massimo Gallotta (Salerno)
|
[12]
|
Page 55
|
Teatro San Carlo di Napoli
|
[13]
|
|
Mauro Pagani (Lombardy)
|
{86}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{87}
|
Page 56
|
Teatro Regio of Parma
|
{88}
|
|
Teatro alla Scala Academy (Milan)
|
{89}
|
|
Rossini (Marche)
|
{90}
|
|
Puccini (Tuscany)
|
{91}
|
|
Verdi (Parma)
|
{92}
|
|
Bracco Foundation (Milan)
|
{93}
|
|
Mauro Bigonzetti (Rome)
|
{94}
|
Page 58
|
Pasolini (Bologna)
|
{95}
|
|
Istituto Luce Cinecitta (Rome)
|
{96}
|
|
Caravaggio (Milan)
|
{97}
|
|
Longoni (Milano)
|
{98}
|
|
Nastasi (Milano)
|
{99}
|
|
Hemingway in Veneto
|
{100}
|
Page 59
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Istituto Capri nel Mondo
|
[14]
|
|
Philips Collection:
|
|
|
Gabriele Basilico (Milano)
|
{101}
|
|
Gianni Berengo Gardin (Genoa)
|
{102}
|
|
Mario Cresci (Genoa)
|
{103}
|
|
Renato D’Agostin (Venice)
|
{104}
|
|
Andrea Galvani (Verona)
|
{105}
|
|
Luigi Ghirri (Emilia-Romagna)
|
{106}
|
|
Mimmo Jodice (Naples)
|
[15]
|
|
Nino Migliori (Bologna)
|
{107}
|
|
Francesco Nonino (Friuli-Veneziani)
|
{108}
|
|
Bianca Sforni (Milan)
|
{109}
|
|
Franco Vaccari (Modena)
|
{110}
|
|
Paolo Ventura (Milan)
|
{111}
|
Page 60
|
Dante Alighieri (Florence)
|
{112}
|
|
Lamberto Lambertini (Naples)
|
[16]
|
Page 61
|
Pasolini (Bologna)
|
{113}
|
|
New Italian Cinema:
|
|
|
Giuseppe Capotondi (Milan)
|
{114}
|
|
Francesca Comencini (Rome)
|
{115}
|
|
Emanuele Crialese (Rome)
|
{116}
|
|
Leonardo di Costanzo (Naples)
|
[17]
|
|
Gianni di Gregorio (Rome)
|
{117}
|
|
Matteo Garrone (Rome)
|
{118}
|
|
Luca Guadagnino (Sicily)
|
[18]
|
|
Mario Martone (Naples)
|
[19]
|
|
Andrea Molaioli (Rome)
|
{119}
|
|
Susanna Nicchiarelli (Rome)
|
{120}
|
|
Ferzan Ozpetek (Rome)
|
{121}
|
|
Silvio Soldini (Milan)
|
{122}
|
|
Roberta Torre (Milan)
|
{123}
|
|
Marco Tullio Giordana (Milan)
|
{124}
|
Page 62
|
Cinecitta Luce (Rome)
|
{125}
|
|
Marco Bellocchio (Emilia-Romagna)
|
{126}
|
Page 64
|
Pasolini (Bologna)
|
{127}
|
|
Danta Ferretti (Marche)
|
{128}
|
|
Poetry on a Bus:
|
|
|
Montale (Genoa)
|
{129}
|
|
Pavase (Piedmont)
|
{130}
|
|
Ungaretti (Tuscany)
|
{131}
|
Page 65
|
Italian Modernism (Milan, Turin, Genoa)
|
{132}
|
|
Machiavelli (Florence)
|
{133}
|
Page 66
|
Dacia Maraini (Tuscany)
|
{134}
|
|
AISLLI “maternal speech Dante” (Tuscany)
|
{135}
|
|
Clara Sereni (Rome)
|
{136}
|
Page 67
|
Machiavelli (Florence)
|
{137}
|
Page 68
|
Dante Alighieri (Florence)
|
{138}
|
|
Marco Cappelli (Rome)
|
{139}
|
|
Marco Nereo Rotelli (Venice)
|
{140}
|
Page 69
|
Boccaccio (Tuscany)
|
{141}
|
|
Gaetano Salvemini (Apulia)
|
[20]
|
|
Machiavelli (Florence)
|
{142}
|
Page 70
|
Italo Calvino (Liguria)
|
{143}
|
|
Primo Levi (Turin)
|
{144}
|
|
Leopardi (Marche)
|
{145}
|