Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.

Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.

Francesco Durante refers to Teresi (b. Alia (Palermo), Italy 1875 - d. Rochester, NY 1971) as an Italian-American intellectual. He came to the U.S. in 1907, earned a law degree here, and became a bank teller in Rochester. He wrote the preface to Bellalma Forzato-Spezia's Il vate etneo, q.v. His biographer (Claudia Giurintano, in Socialismo romantico in Matteo Teresi) calls him a "socialist romantic."

This work is a collection of articles on diverse topics, including for example, "in Defense of Prostitution: Contributed to the Campaign against Venereal Disease."

Teresi's other Italian works include L'ultima menzogna religiosa-La Democrazia Cristiana [The Ultimate Religious Falsehood - the Christian Democracy] (Palermo and New York, 1910) and Il sogno di un emigrato [The Dream of an Immigrant] (Rochester, 1932). See Schiavo 1966-67. He also published work in English, including Love and Health: The Problem of Better Breeding for the Human Family (New York, 1914), a eugenics treatise arguing for "the necessity and the justice of laws forbidding matrimony among degenerates."

Andrea Camillieri's 2011 novel, La setta degli angeli [The Sect of the Angels] is based on his life, describing a scandal in Sicily in 1901 in which the lawyer Matteo Teresi discovers that in his country there exists a very secret sect made up of priests and other notables.

Matteo Teresi

Casa ed. D'Antoni

1925

21.5 x 14.5cm; 326 p.

Italian