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2012

July 6, 2012

Southern-Italian Americans and the 99% vs. 1% American Class Dichotomy

Tom Verso
“A picture is worth a thousand words”

Clearly, the accompanying picture captures the reality of the class character of American’s current political economy; i.e. great masses of people who had no say in...

June 29, 2012

“Southern Italy: After Rome...Before the Normans” – a history course based on the brilliant books of Kreuts and Skinner

Tom Verso

The outrageously insulting (to southern-Italian Americans) and intellectually wanting failure of Italian and Italian American Studies programs to provide a history of southern...

June 25, 2012

Antiquated Renaissance City-States built walls around their cities, while Southern Italy led Europe into nation-state era

Tom Verso
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Scholar ‘par excellence’ Barbara M. Kreutz writes: “Southern Italy has been largely ignored by most non-Italian historians of medieval Europe…they typically glance south...

June 23, 2012

Mario Monti – On his feet before God, On his knees before Germany, On the Backs of Workers

Tom Verso

There is no end to the ways that the rich and powerful can con workers out of their money. And the professional biography of Mario Monti documents his impeccably unblemished...

June 20, 2012

The Vatican, American Nuns and southern-Italian Americana

Tom Verso

No single institution is more closely associated with the history and culture of Italians south of Rome and west of Ellis Island than the Catholic Church. Christianity born in...

May 21, 2012

‘Forget-about’ Manzoni’s novel for an HBO Series ... Sing “Goat-Songs” of the South – Lampedusa and Domini

Tom Verso

There is a de facto Gramsci-esque northern-Italian cultural conspiracy being perpetrated against Americans of southern-Italian descent by American university Italian Studies and...

April 20, 2012

Sicily and the “Clash of Civilizations” - Why Greco-Roman...Why NOT Etruscan-Roman or Phoenician-Roman Civilization?

Tom Verso
'Phoenicians Bartering with Ancient Britons' / ‘Victorious Youth’ 300-100 BC

There are no “History Cycles” – Just the ‘Same-O’ ‘Same-O’!

April 3, 2012

From “Godfather to “Mama’s Boys” – The ever degenerating southern-Italian American media image. So who cares?

Tom Verso

There is a clear pattern of increasingly negative dramatic images of southern-Italian Americans in American media from the 1970s Godfather movie to the current reality shows. It...

March 31, 2012

Southern Italy – The Chrysalis of Western Civilization ... Diocletian’s Palace Colonnade

Tom Verso
“The Greatest Single Architectural Innovation in History” Edward A. Freeman - 1879

Southern Italy is the Chrysalis where the Mediterranean culture caterpillar transformed into the Western Civilization butterfly.