Luigi Palma di Cesnola e il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York [Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]. New York: [n.p.], 1898.
Title
Luigi Palma di Cesnola e il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York [Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]. New York: [n.p.], 1898.
Description
This copy, with an inscription to “the most noble Madam Contessa Valdrighi” dated June 7, 1899, is a hagiography of the Torinese count, Palma di Cesnola, who arrived in America penniless (but of noble birth). Though impoverished, he learned English quickly, and began teaching English and French. He married Mary Isabel Reid, a student of his from a good New York family, and later passed an officer’s exam to rise to lieutenant colonel. In that position he joined a regiment to protect President Lincoln.
Luigi Roversi (b. Bologna, 1859; d. New York, 1927) was the secretary and assistant to di Cesnola when the latter became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after the war and during Cesnola’s service as U.S. ambassador to Cyprus. Di Cesnola’s collection of Cypriot artifacts continues to occupy a separate room at the Met.
Roversi led a diverse career: lecturer for the Board of Education of New York on themes of civic education, literature and art; literary and drama critic; and teacher at the People’s University, promoted in New York by the Socialist Party. Trained as a lawyer in Italy, he was a correspondent of La Gazetta of Torino and other Italian newspapers, and wrote literary pieces in appendici, laid in between newspaper sheets for La Patria (The Fatherland) of Bologna.
After immigrating to America, he became a contributing editor of Il Progresso Italo-Americano and L’Araldo Italiano, and the politico-literary editor of La Follia di New York, and associated with several Italian newspapers as the New York correspondent. Besides this work, Roversi also published, in 1901, Ricordi canavesani: Luigi Palma di Cesnola a Rivarolo Canavese e a Cesnola. (Memoirs from the Canavese: Luigi Palma di Cesnola at Rivarolo Canavese and at Cesnola), about Cesnola’s voyage to his hometown area in Italy.
Luigi Roversi (b. Bologna, 1859; d. New York, 1927) was the secretary and assistant to di Cesnola when the latter became the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after the war and during Cesnola’s service as U.S. ambassador to Cyprus. Di Cesnola’s collection of Cypriot artifacts continues to occupy a separate room at the Met.
Roversi led a diverse career: lecturer for the Board of Education of New York on themes of civic education, literature and art; literary and drama critic; and teacher at the People’s University, promoted in New York by the Socialist Party. Trained as a lawyer in Italy, he was a correspondent of La Gazetta of Torino and other Italian newspapers, and wrote literary pieces in appendici, laid in between newspaper sheets for La Patria (The Fatherland) of Bologna.
After immigrating to America, he became a contributing editor of Il Progresso Italo-Americano and L’Araldo Italiano, and the politico-literary editor of La Follia di New York, and associated with several Italian newspapers as the New York correspondent. Besides this work, Roversi also published, in 1901, Ricordi canavesani: Luigi Palma di Cesnola a Rivarolo Canavese e a Cesnola. (Memoirs from the Canavese: Luigi Palma di Cesnola at Rivarolo Canavese and at Cesnola), about Cesnola’s voyage to his hometown area in Italy.
Publisher
[n.p.]
Date
1898
Format
25.5 x 17cm; 75 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
“Luigi Palma di Cesnola e il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York [Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]. New York: [n.p.], 1898.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 23, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/261.
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