Looking homeward: Publication in Italy (and elsewhere) of works about Americans and Italians
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The writers here sometimes looked homeward, to Italy (but also France and elsewhere), to find a publisher who was sufficiently interested in the adventures of an Italian in America -- the very title of Adolfo Rossi’s very entertaining Un italiano in America -- published in Milan.
Writers looked to foreign publishers to provide publication, and possibly readership, more in keeping with the traditional view of book publishing and book production values to which the more highly trained among the Italian journalists in America gravitated. Some, like the Piedmontese aristocrat Mayor des Planches, who was Italian ambassador to Washington from 1901-1909, always intended to return to Italy, and did so. Publication in Turin of his Attraverso gli Stati Uniti – per l’emigrazione italiana occurred a good three or more years after his tour of duty was completed, and so he kept an admirable objectivity and cool demeanor toward the subject of his study.
Cordiferro’s Ode alla Calabria, published in Buenos Aires in 1933, but reflecting a literary salon that had taken place in Brooklyn some years before, mirrored the broadly felt literary interest of the Italian diaspora wherever Italians might be in the writing of other emigrated Italians, and the global nature of Italian culture.
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L'Emigrazione Italiana in America: osservazioni [Italian Emigration to America: observations]. Piacenza: Tip. del Amico del Popolo, 1887.Observations by the well-known founder of the Scalabrinian order, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), the founder of two other religious orders,…
Gli Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Roma: Tip. di Giovanni Balbi, 1896.This analysis of Italian emigration to the Americas up to the mid-1890s is useful generally about early immigration.After about six pages generally on…
Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.Ruggiero (b. Grottole 1878 - d. Grassano 1959) was an Italian journalist who had taken a degree in surgery in Italy. He was a socialist in Naples,…
Ho rinunciato alla libertà [I've Given Up Liberty]. Milano: Le edizioni sociali, 1950.Taddei published many works in the U.S. during the fascist era, when it would have been impossible to do so in Italy. Once the war was over, as is the…
New-York. Milano: Giuseppe Galli, Ed., 1884.New-York reflects a frankness, thoroughness, intensity and texture in Italian about the experiences of Italians in America that is largely lacking in…
Della protezione degli emigranti italiani in America [On the Protection of Immigrant Italians in America]. Roma: Forzani e C. Ti. Del Senato, 1895.This 19-page essay was by the famous Italian economist & statistician (1840-1920), "dalla Nuova Antologia, Vol. LX, serie III, Fascicolo 15 December…
Italia randagia attraverso gli Stati Uniti [Wild Italy across the United States]. Torino: Fr. Bocca Ed., 1913.
America vissuta [American Experiences]. Torino: Fr. Bocca Ed., 1911.Bernardy was a pioneering journalist in Italy in the early 20th century, and published this work on social life in Italian America. Born in 1880 in…
Gente lontana [Faraway People]. Milano: Edizioni Medici Domus, 1938.A novel of Italian American life by this immigrant in 1923 who was a contributor to the newspapers Il Progresso and the Italian Mattino di Napoli and…
America amara [Bitter America]. Firenze: Sansoni, 1940.Cecchi was a literary and arts critic and writer, born in Firenze, who worked there and in Rome. He was a friend both of Giovanni Pappini, philosopher…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other…
"Dagoes": novelle transatlantiche ["Dagoes": Transatlantic Stories]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1927.Note the inscription of this copy by the author "al Professore Guglielmo Ferrero." Ferrero (b. 1871 — d. 1942) was an Italian historian, journalist…
Il primato degli italiani nella storia e nella civiltà americana: il breviario degli italiani d'America [The Preeminence of Italians in American History and Civilization: a Reference Guide of Italians in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, [1925].Branchi was an Italian who published his work both in the old country and in the U.S. For a full bio of Branchi, see entry on Così parlò Mister…
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