Rivista d'Italia e d'America [Magazine of Italy and of America]/ Italy-America Review. New York: Casa ed. della "Rivista d'Italia e d'America", 1926. Anno IV, Num. XI (novembre 1926).

Rivista d'Italia e d'America [Magazine of Italy and of America]/ Italy-America Review. New York: Casa ed. della "Rivista d'Italia e d'America", 1926. Anno IV, Num. XI (novembre 1926).

This magazine "of Italy and of America," or in English "Italy-America Review," published in Rome, nominally has editorial addresses also in New York and Cordoba, Argentina, this last reflecting the magazine's boast that it covers Italian life in South as well as North America. That this November 1926 issue is "Year 4" means the first issue appeared just before or at the time of Mussolini's March on Rome. Yet, unlike articles in, say, Il Carroccio, there are no articles by Mussolini or that otherwise assault the reader, by their titles, with a blind adherence to fascism.

While mostly written in Italian, with articles by several Italian Parliament deputies, the table of contents notes a few articles written in English or in Spanish. Indeed, reflecting the Central and South American orientation, there are "lettere dalla Colombia," "L'Uruguay" (by the consul of Uruguay to Florence), "Gli italiani di Panama," and "Italia e Brasile." The overall impression one is meant to get, I think, is that Italians are all over the Americas and yet they still have a loyalty to the mother country. 

There is a somewhat curiously titled article, "I tre ultimi grandi libri americani [the last three great American books]," but, disappointingly at least to me, they are books by Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie. A short story by Grazia Deledda graces the last pages.

The advertisements in this American edition are of American (mostly Italian) businesses; one imagines that the South American issues of the magazine advertize South American businesses.

Dott. Filippo Cassola

1926

Italian