Beginnings I was weaned on stories. My grandmother would repeat tales of her childhood in Italy, of her prophetic sister who died there during the Spanish Flu epidemic, of their crossing in the winter of 1919 on the ship that almost sank in the middle of the Atlantic, of her early years in New York …
Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Poetry I’m thinking about immigrants and immigration right now, as every day it seems one of the presidential candidates is calling for building a huge wall, deporting illegals, raising our quotas, etc. etc. And yet, indigenous Americans aside, didn’t we all come from somewhere else? And wasn’t it a huge …
The Beloved Ghosts of Compiano Italy, sweet Italy, and the ghosts the very thought of it evokes. They came from Compiano, in the region of Parma, my grandfather and my grandmother, nonno e nonna, back some 120 years ago. First Giuseppe—Joe—age 25, in 1896, then Giulia, with their one-year-old son, Primo, the following year. They …
We are pleased to announce that the journal’s Poetry Editor, Maria Terrone, has recently been published in the Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her work, “Rothko’s Grave,” can be found on the Review’s website: http://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2017/05/22/maria-terrone-rothkos-grave/.
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor v Notes on Contributors ix Articles The Delivery of Mussolini’s Rings in Rhode Island: A Collaboration between Catholic Priests and Italian Fascist Officials Valeria Federici 121 Membranza Sì Cara e Fatal: Verdi’s “Va, pensiero” as an Icon of Italian Culture from the 1850s to the Present Date Stephanie …
Italian Americana is seeking scholarly and creative submissions for its Winter 2020 issue. Italian Americana is a double-blind peer-review journal that has previously published the works of scholars such as Donna Gabaccia and Stefano Luconi. Scholarly articles in any discipline related to the topic of the Italian experience in America are welcomed. We also welcome …
The Country Inside Me I have a terrible confession to make: I have never been to Italy. The land of my paternal grandmother and grandfather, the language my own father was fluent in yet never taught me or my siblings, has existed for me as a dream and a longing unfulfilled. Every time someone mentions …
We are pleased to announce that the Hudson Review published two poems by the journal’s poetry editor, Maria Terrone, in the magazine’s Summer 2018 issue. Terrone’s work has appeared six times in the Hudson Review over the years. The poems are titled “The White Piano” and “Edgar Allan Poe Dines at Thomas Jefferson’s Home.”
How I Learned What It Means To Be Italian My parents were immigrants from the province of Salerno, Cilento, in southern Italy. They came from two different small villages at the top of a mountain, San Mauro and Galdo. My father arrived in Paterson, NJ when he was sixteen and went back to Italy to …
With the passing of Italian Americana co-founder, Dr. Bruno A. Arcudi, the Italian-American community has lost a prominent scholar and educator. Born June 9, 1923 in Westport, CT, Arcudi was the son of Italian immigrants Carmelo and Mary (Passa ume) Arcudi. He graduated from Staples High School in 1941 and then from Yale in 1944 …