Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.
Title
Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.
Description
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, then took refuge from the police in an anarchist group.
At the age of 29, in 1907, he emigrated to the U.S., where he joined his brother Amedeo, a pharmacist, who was already there. Amerigo contributed articles to Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the magazine Divagando, and La Settimana, a bilingual newspaper founded by Italo Stanco and by Edward Corsi, which published correspondence from influential Italian correspondents, of whom Ruggiero of La Stampa was one.
In 1936 he was sent by the U.S. State Department on a diplomatic mission to Mussolini, who was both a critic and an assiduous reader of Ruggiero.
The preface allegedly written by Piero Parini was in fact written by Mario Missiroli, a journalist who was out of favor with the fascists. Amerigo's brother, Ortensio, a noted anti-fascist, was the model for "Signor Orlando" in Amerigo's friend Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli. Three years before Italiani in America, Ruggiero published, with Einaudi, L'America al bivio [America at the Crossroads].
Ruggiero says he has no intention of providing statistics about immigration; others have done so and will do so in the future, he says. Rather, he says, he wants to paint in great outline what Italian emigration has really been like, in North America, of the transformations which the great mass of Italian emigrants have suffered in a strange land, and what can be the prospects of those Italians in the future. He wants to dwell on the less noted aspects of immigration; it's about time, he says in his introduction, that someone shed light on the "deficienze e colpe [weaknesses and faults]" that have blocked the development of Italians in America.
At the age of 29, in 1907, he emigrated to the U.S., where he joined his brother Amedeo, a pharmacist, who was already there. Amerigo contributed articles to Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the magazine Divagando, and La Settimana, a bilingual newspaper founded by Italo Stanco and by Edward Corsi, which published correspondence from influential Italian correspondents, of whom Ruggiero of La Stampa was one.
In 1936 he was sent by the U.S. State Department on a diplomatic mission to Mussolini, who was both a critic and an assiduous reader of Ruggiero.
The preface allegedly written by Piero Parini was in fact written by Mario Missiroli, a journalist who was out of favor with the fascists. Amerigo's brother, Ortensio, a noted anti-fascist, was the model for "Signor Orlando" in Amerigo's friend Carlo Levi's Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli. Three years before Italiani in America, Ruggiero published, with Einaudi, L'America al bivio [America at the Crossroads].
Ruggiero says he has no intention of providing statistics about immigration; others have done so and will do so in the future, he says. Rather, he says, he wants to paint in great outline what Italian emigration has really been like, in North America, of the transformations which the great mass of Italian emigrants have suffered in a strange land, and what can be the prospects of those Italians in the future. He wants to dwell on the less noted aspects of immigration; it's about time, he says in his introduction, that someone shed light on the "deficienze e colpe [weaknesses and faults]" that have blocked the development of Italians in America.
Creator
Amerigo Ruggiero
Publisher
Fratelli Treves Editori
Date
1937
Contributor
Preface by Piero Parini
Format
22 x 15cm; 252 p.
Language
Italian
Collection
Citation
Amerigo Ruggiero, “Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1937.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/398.
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