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Title:
THE SHADOW OF A BIRD FLYING OVER: ANGELO GARIBALDI IN PHILADELPHIA.
Authors:
Cowie, Phillip K.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 125-149 25p.
Historical Period:
1804-35
Subjects:
SARDINIA (Italy)
DIPLOMATS
Garibaldi, Angelo
Abstract:
Recounts the short life of Giuseppe Garibaldi's older brother, Angelo Garibaldi (1804-35), who
served as acting consul general of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the United States during 1832-35,
until he died prematurely of malarial fever. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:4899
Accession Number:
A000539386.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
GIOVANNI VERGA AND THE ROOTS OF ITALIAN AMERICA.
Authors:
Guida, George.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 150-163 14p.
Historical Period:
1880-1920
Subjects:
VERGA, Giovanni
MANNERS & customs
SHORT stories
PEASANTS
SICILY (Italy)
Abstract:
The short stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) realistically depicted the harsh life of Sicilian
peasants, many of whom emigrated to America yet remained true to the folklore and customs of
their native land. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
55:6969
Accession Number:
H001674386.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
WHERE DID THE GOODFELLAS LEARN HOW TO COOK? GENDER, LABOR, AND THE
ITALIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
Authors:
Ruberto, Laura E.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 164-176 13p.
Historical Period:
1950's-70's
Subjects:
WOMEN
ITALIAN Americans
GENDER
MOTION pictures
'Tarantella' (film)
'Household Saints' (film)
Abstract:
Through an analysis of two films, namely Helen de Michiel's 'Tarantella' (1996) and Nancy
Savoca's 'Household Saints' (1993), asserts that the role of Italian American women has been
underappreciated. The author describes the post-World War II contributions they have made in
the spheres of family, work, and community. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:6230
Accession Number:
A000540839.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
FRANK SAMPERI'S 'LAMENTATIONS'.
Authors:
Samperi, Frank; Martone, John, ed.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 177-184 8p.
Historical Period:
1960's-70's
Subjects:
POETRY
ITALIAN Americans
EQUALITY
DIARIES
Samperi, Frank '(Lamentations)'
Abstract:
Excerpts 20% of 'Lamentations,' the diary kept from 1963 to 1965 by Italian American poet
Frank Samperi (1933-91), and shows how the diary contributes to a better understanding of his
poetry, especially his vision of a culture based on individual difference, not on economic or
political hierarchies. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:6234
Accession Number:
A000540843.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
CAIRNS.
Authors:
Barone, Dennis.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 195-201 7p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
SEPULCHRAL monuments
NARRATIVES
FAMILIES
BARONE, Dennis
DiDonato, Pietro '(Christ in Concrete)'
Abstract:
Relates two remembrances, one that tells about the great-uncle of the author's wife, who was the
inspiration for a character in Pietro DiDonato's novel 'Christ in Concrete' (1939), and the other
regarding his search for his great-grandparents' gravestone. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:5552
Accession Number:
A000540136.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
GETTING THE STORY STRAIGHT: PRESS COVERAGE OF ITALIAN-AMERICAN
LYNCHINGS FROM 1856-1910.
Authors:
DeLucia, Christine.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 212-221 10p.
Historical Period:
1856-1910
Subjects:
STEREOTYPES (Social psychology)
SOUTHERN States
ITALIAN Americans
SICILY (Italy)
NEWSPAPERS
LYNCHING
DISCRIMINATION
NEW York Times, The (Newspaper)
Abstract:
Documents coverage by the 'New York Times' of the lynchings of Sicilian Americans in the
American South during 1856-1910 and how, despite its antilynching tone, the 'Times' portrayed
Sicilians in negative stereotypes, linking them to uncivilized behavior, lawlessness, and
organized crime. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:6721
Accession Number:
A000541352.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
PERSONAL REACTION ON IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN
WORKING CLASS.
Authors:
DiMaggio, Dan.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(2): 223-226 4p.
Historical Period:
1990's
Subjects:
WORKING class
NARRATIVES
ITALIAN Americans
ETHNICITY
DIMAGGIO, Dan
Abstract:
Contains reflective observations on the author's Italian American identity and how his views on
race and ethnicity within Italian American working-class culture developed in the 1990's through
reading the works of Maria Laurino, Richard Gambino, and Jerome Krase. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
41:6367
Accession Number:
A000540972.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS IN ARGENTINA: SOME REPRESENTATIONS ON STAGE.
Authors:
Sanhueza, Teresa.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(1): 5-21 17p.
Historical Period:
1880-1930
Subjects:
THEATER
ITALIANS
IMMIGRANTS
COMEDY
ARGENTINA
Abstract:
Shows how the 'sainete' (one-act farce) comedies of Argentine playwrights Rafael José de Rosa
(1884-1955), Armando Discepolo (1889-1971), and Florencio Sánchez (1875-1910) depicted the
everyday life of immigrant Italians in Argentina and how the latters' values, customs, and social
struggles helped to redefine the Argentine traditions of gaucho and creole life. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
55:1782
Accession Number:
H001669199.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
COELA TANGO: A LIFE.
Authors:
Abetti, Pier Antonio.
Source:
Italian Americana 2003 21(1): 22-55 34p.
Historical Period:
1900-46
Subjects:
MEMOIRS
FLORENCE (Italy)
ABETTI, Pier Antonio
Abstract:
A memoir of the author's early life in Florence under Italian Fascism, chronicling the life of his
father, Giorgio Abetti (1882-1982), a noted astronomer and director of the Arcetri Observatory
(1921-53), and his own youth and education, including his career as an Italian army engineer at
the Military Geographic Institute during World War II. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
55:2779
Accession Number:
H001670196.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
HOMAGE TO THE CONTADINI: THE INFLUENCE OF RUDOLPH J. VECOLI ON
IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY.
Authors:
Bukowczyk, John J.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 21[i.e., 20](2): 125-134 10p.
Historical Period:
1960's-70's
Subjects:
VECOLI, Rudolph J.
ITALIAN Americans
IMMIGRANTS
HISTORIOGRAPHY
HANDLIN, Oscar
Abstract:
In 1964, American historian Rudloph J. Vecoli published 'Contadini in Chicago,' a critique of
Oscar Handlin's classic account of the immigrant experience. Vecoli's cultural pluralist approach
to ethnic history led to the revival of immigration history during the late 1960's and 1970's.
Vecoli substituted the experience of the 'transplanted' Italian American 'contadini' [peasants] in
his analysis for that of the assimilating East European immigrant proposed by Handlin. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:14832
Accession Number:
A000533860.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
RADIO BROADCASTING, CONSUMER CULTURE, AND ETHNIC IDENTITY AMONG
ITALIAN AMERICANS IN THE INTERWAR YEARS.
Authors:
Luconi, Stefano.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 21[i.e., 20](2): 150-159 10p.
Historical Period:
1920's-30's
Subjects:
MANNERS & customs
RADIO
PENNSYLVANIA
ITALIAN Reveries Broadcasting Co
ITALIAN Americans
FOOD consumption
ETHNICITY
ADVERTISING
Abstract:
During the 1920's-30's interwar period, radio advertisements transmitted by the Italian Reveries
Broadcasting Company in Pennsylvania, rather than help Italian immigrants assimilate, fostered
ethnic pride, a sense of community, and an appreciation for native culture, by encouraging the
consumption of Italian American food products and continuing ties to traditional Italian ethnic
cuisine. Commercial media, advertising, and consumption helped sustain distinctive ethnic
identities rather than Americanizing the immigrants. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:13927
Accession Number:
A000532821.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
THE CHANGING ROLES OF NICKNAMES IN A SICILIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY.
Authors:
Nigro, Marie.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 21[i.e., 20](2): 160-170 11p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
ITALIAN Americans
SICILY (Italy)
NAMES
Pennsylvania (Norristown)
Abstract:
Based on the recollections of twenty first-generation Sicilian Americans, aged 70 to 85 in 1984,
details the nicknaming practices of the Sicilian immigrant community in Norristown,
Pennsylvania, during the 20th century. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:13934
Accession Number:
A000532828.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
THE CASE OF JEANNETTE, PENNSYLVANIA 1888-1950: FORMATION AND
DEVELOPMENT.
Authors:
DiVirgilio, Michael.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 20(1): 14-30 17p.
Historical Period:
1888-1950
Subjects:
SOCIAL history
ITALIAN Americans
COMMUNITIES
Pennsylvania (Jeannette)
Abstract:
Features the Italian American community of Jeannette, Pennsylvania, during 1888-1950, the rise
of its members from laborers to merchants and 'prominenti' (the prominent ones), the functioning
of their mutual aid organizations, and the internecine conflicts between northern and southern
Italians after years of cooperation. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:6627
Accession Number:
A000524852.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
FLIES AND BUGS: ITALIAN PRINTED WORDS IN THE U.S.
Authors:
Marazzi, Martino.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 20(1): 31-35 5p.
Historical Period:
1870's-1940's
Subjects:
HISTORY -- Research
PUBLISHERS & publishing
ITALIAN language
Abstract:
Briefly describes the author's extensive research on Italian American publishers and the Italianlanguage literature they produced for Little Italy communities throughout the United States from
the 1870's to the 1940's. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:4482
Accession Number:
A000522547.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
LEONARD COVELLO: TEACHING IMMIGRANTS IN THE AMERICAN WAY.
Authors:
Iannone, Carol.
Source:
Italian Americana 2002 20(1): 36-47 12p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
EAST Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
ITALIAN Americans
EDUCATION -- Philosophy
COVELLO, Leonard, 1887-1982
Benjamin Franklin High School
Abstract:
Analyzes the bilingualist and interculturalist educational philosophy of Italian American
educator Leonard Covello (1887-1982), the son of Italian immigrants, who was a founding
planner and longtime principal of the Benjamin Franklin High School for boys in East Harlem.
[J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
40:6536
Accession Number:
A000524760.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
ITALIAN WOMEN IN THE RESISTANCE, WORLD WAR II.
Authors:
D'Amelio, Dan A.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(2): 127-141 15p.
Historical Period:
1943-45
Subjects:
WORLD War, 1939-1945
WOMEN
GOVERNMENT, Resistance to
ITALY
Abstract:
Italian women were an integral part of the anti-Fascist resistance, numbering 35,000 out of a
total of 200,000 partisans during the peak period of activity in late summer 1944. Women
partisans were engaged in traditional roles at first, such as nursing and collecting supplies and
money. As the needs of the resistance grew, so too did the experience and participation of
women. They acted as cooks and guides for mountain brigades, led factory strikes, and printed
and distributed anti-Fascist literature. Women also worked in the most dangerous roles as
couriers carrying orders, reports, propaganda material, and underground newspapers. Eventually
they also transported weapons, ammunition, and explosives and engaged in intelligence
gathering. In general, Italian women were desirable recruits because they were less likely to be
suspected by male soldiers. Moreover, women played an important role in official partisan
organizations, including the formation of a special volunteer group overseen by the Committee
for National Liberation. All told, hundreds of women partisans in Italy during 1943-45 were
killed and thousands arrested or deported to Germany. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on interviews and secondary sources; biblio.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
53:16316
Accession Number:
H001643676.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
JOSEPH ROCCHIETTI: POLITICAL THINKER IN LITERARY CLOTHING.
Authors:
Albright, Carol Bonomo.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(2): 142-145 4p.
Historical Period:
1835-45
Subjects:
POLITICS, Practical
NATIVISM
LITERATURE
ITALIAN Americans
AUTHORS
Rocchietti, Joseph '(Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish)'
Abstract:
Joseph Rocchietti, an Italian expatriate in the United States, authored the 1835 novel 'Lorenzo
and Oonalaska,' which praised American political ideals. In 1845 he wrote a pamphlet, 'Why a
National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America,' in reaction to nativist
politics directed against immigrants, especially the Irish, and by extension their Catholic
coreligionists, the Italians. Rocchietti blamed those he considered religious fanatics for nativist
policies and practices. He reminded Americans of their immigrant roots, referenced their
indebtedness to Columbus's discovery of the New World, and challenged all Americans to live
up to the founding ideals of freedom and tolerance. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:12379
Accession Number:
A000514778.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
FASCISM AND ITALIAN COMMUNITIES IN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES.
Authors:
Bertonha, João Fábio.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(2): 146-157 12p.
Historical Period:
1922-45
Subjects:
UNITED States
PROPAGANDA
POLITICAL attitudes
ITALY
ITALIANS
FASCISM
BRAZIL
Abstract:
Mussolini's Fascist regime attempted to reclaim the allegiances of Italians who settled abroad,
but the response in the Italian communities in Brazil and the United States varied according to
class and region. Fascists exercised control over newspapers, schools, and consulate offices in
both countries; however, they propagated different propaganda messages to each expatriate
community. Right-wing political movements were more accepted in Brazil, and Fascist
propaganda tended to be more political and ideological in tone. Italians who identified
themseleves as Brazilian supported the Fascist-inspired Integralismo movement, while newer
Italian immigrants who still saw themselves as Italians supported Fascism. In the United States,
which lacked a strong indigenous right-wing movement, propaganda was more cultural in nature.
Most Italians in America showed strong sympathy for Fascism while still participating in
American politics as Roosevelt Democrats. Overall, Italians in Brazil and America had generally
favorable opinions of the Italian regime during the 1920's-30's as long as Fascist politics did not
conflict with loyalty to their new countries. This dual loyalty quickly deteriorated with Italy's
entry into World War II on the side of Nazi Germany. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Secondary sources; 27 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number: 54:1707
Accession Number: H000515126.01
Database: Historical Abstracts
Entry Number: 39:12689
Accession Number: A000515126.01
Database: America: History & Life
Title:
GIOVANNI DE ROSALIA: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND 'NOFRIO'.
Authors:
Accardi, Joseph J.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(2): 176-186 11p.
Historical Period:
1900-40
Subjects:
THEATER
RADIO
NEW York (N.Y.)
ITALIAN Americans
DRAMATISTS
DeRosalia, Giovanni
Abstract:
Recounts the early-20th-century literary, theatrical, and radio career of Giovanni De Rosalia, a
Sicilian immigrant in New York City, who wrote plays, farces, and Sicilian poetry. He acted in
the farces and made famous among the Sicilian American community the buffoonish character
Nofrio. He at first tried to perform in classical theater in which standard Italian was spoken, but
this failed because his audiences did not have sufficient mastery of the language. So, he turned to
Sicilian dialect theater instead. Rapturous audiences faithfully attended his plays 'Nofrio Sindaco'
[Nofrio the mayor], 'Nofrio Locandiere' [Nofrio the innkeeper], 'Il Natale di Nofrio' [Nofrio's
Christmas], and others. Eventually De Rosalia expanded his dramatic work to include radio.
Between 1916 and 1928, he recorded nearly two hundred farces with Columbia, Victor, and
Okeh record companies. This made his performances widely known in the Sicilian American
community throughout the United States. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on newspapers, other primary sources, and secondary sources; 23 notes, biblio.,
discography.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:13916
Accession Number:
A000516396.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
THE SWALLOWS OF MONTECILFONE.
Authors:
Desiato, Wilma.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(2): 201-206 6p.
Historical Period:
1950-2001
Subjects:
NARRATIVES
ITALY
ITALIAN Americans
EMIGRATION & immigration
FAMILIES
Desiato, Wilma
Abstract:
Recounts the author's return to her deceased husband Nicholas's hometown of Montecilfone in
Molise, Italy. She and Nicholas met in 1952 in her native Bologna, where he attended the
university's medical school. In 1959, they emigrated to Philadelphia to live near his parents.
Nicholas had never been close to his father, who had worked for many years in the United States
as a stonemason. The author fulfilled her husband's desire to share his heritage and family
history with his children and grandchildren by restoring the long-neglected family home. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:13706
Accession Number:
A000516177.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
FRANK SINATRA: MUSICIAN, ACTOR, AND QUINTESSENTIAL ETHNIC.
Authors:
Furia, Philip et al.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(1): 5-22 18p.
Historical Period:
1940's-70's
Subjects:
SINGERS
SINATRA, Frank, 1915-1998
ROLE models
ETHNICITY
ACTORS
Abstract:
Presents five abridged essays originally delivered as papers at Hofstra University's 1998
conference on Frank Sinatra. John Gennari's 'Mammissimo: Dolly and Frankie Sinatra and the
Italian-American Mother/Son Thing' interprets Dolly Sinatra's role as a forceful mother as a
positive contribution to Sinatra's paradoxical persona of insecure tough guy. In 'Sinatra and the
Great American Song Book,' Philip Furia emphasizes Sinatra's willing adaptations of older
feminine show tunes as a key to the redefinition of his persona from 1940's bobby-soxer idol to
vulnerable yet mature sophisticate during his comeback in the mid-1950's. Joseph Fioravanti's
'Hanging on a String of Dreams: Sinatra `Reads' a Lyric' examines Sinatra's musical treatment of
the lyrics in the song 'Last Night When We Were Young' as an example of his maturation as an
artist of performing genius. In 'Urbane Villager,' Thomas Ferraro focuses on Sinatra's ability to
give masterful 'renditions' of songs and shows how he exhibited a sense of action admired by the
proverbial 'boys on the corner.' Rocco Marinaccio's '`Nice Work if You Can Get It': Frank
Sinatra and the American Dream' affirms that Sinatra kept his ethnic identity by showing on
stage a form of rebellion, demonstrating that puritan virtues of honesty, sobriety, and
industriousness had nothing to do with success. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:5962
Accession Number:
A000507876.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
ETHNICITY AND NEWARK'S 'ITALIAN TRIBUNE,' 1934-1980.
Authors:
Eula, Michael J.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(1): 23-35 13p.
Historical Period:
1934-80
Subjects:
NEWSPAPERS
NEWARK (N.J.)
ITALIAN Americans
ETHNICITY
CONSERVATISM
'Italian Tribune'
Abstract:
From its founding in the 1930's, Newark, New Jersey's 'Italian Tribune' reflected the identity and
aspirations of its Italian American community. It generally supported the Republican Party and
endorsed the presidency of Herbert Hoover in particular, holding in disdain the New Deal
policies of President Franklin Roosevelt. The 'Italian Tribune' was controlled by Newark's
prominent Italian Americans, who supported Benito Mussolini and Italian Fascism throughout
the 1930's. By 1940, however, Italian Americans in Newark and throughout the country changed
their pro-Fascist stance. This change was reflected in the pages of the 'Italian Tribune' following
Italy's entry into World War II alongside Nazi Germany. In the 1950's, the newspaper returned to
its earlier conservatism by taking a staunch anti-Communist stance, while the 1960's-70's saw
editorial calls for working-class and ethnic solidarity to counter the social and economic
upheavals in the inner city. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:6353
Accession Number:
A000508271.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE: REFLECTIONS OF A LIFETIME.
Authors:
Rolle, Andrew.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(1): 36-41 6p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
WEST (U.S.)
QUALITY of life
ITALIAN Americans
IMMIGRANTS
Abstract:
Examines the positive experiences of early- and mid-20th-century Italian immigrants who settled
in the American West, offering contrasting analysis to that reflected in Oscar Handlin's
pessimistic stereotype of European immigrants, predominantly from Eastern Europe, who settled
in large urban areas. Rather than naming Italian immigrants 'the uprooted,' after the title of
Handlin's famous book, 'The Uprooted' (1951), the author preferred the phrase 'the upraised,'
which he coined in his book, 'The Immigrant Upraised' (1968). Many Italian immigrants made
better lives for themselves and their children in the Western states. This was especially so in
California, which closely resembled Italian geography and climate. Although frequently
hampered by bigotry, Italians made the most of the economic opportunities given them, working
hard and excelling in entertainment, restaurant, and winery occupations, as well as in business
and education. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:7139
Accession Number:
A000509126.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
ITALIAN-AMERICAN VOTERS AND THE 'AL SMITH REVOLUTION': A
REASSESSMENT.
Authors:
Luconi, Stefano.
Source:
Italian Americana 2001 19(1): 42-55 14p.
Historical Period:
1920's-30's
Subjects:
VOTING
SMITH, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
ITALIAN Americans
PRESIDENTS -- Election
Abstract:
Many 20th-century historians and political analysts contend that ethnic voters began to switch
their political support from Republicans to Democrats durng the campaign for president by Al
Smith in 1928, and continued to do so in larger numbers in 1932 by supporting Franklin
Roosevelt. Using the Italian American experience as a model for the behavior of ethnic groups in
general, the author stresses that Italian American support given in 1928 to Al Smith was confined
to large urban areas, where most no longer worked as laborers but in blue-collar trades and
white-collar professions. They were allowed greater political freedom because their jobs were
not dependent on company loyalty or on party-machine patronage. In rural areas this was not the
case. In Carbondale, Dunmore, Vandergrift, and Windber, Pennsylvania, laboring Italian
Americans, most of them miners, were forced to vote Republican or lose their jobs. These
company towns remained strongly Republican until the Great Depression, when widespread
unemployment not only caused Italian American laborers to blame their plight on President
Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party, but also freed them to vote Democratic in 1932
without fear of company reprisals. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0096-8846
Entry Number:
39:5231
Accession Number:
A000507117.01
Database:
America: History & Life
Title:
MACHIAVELLI READS BOCCACCIO: 'MANDRAGOLA' BETWEEN 'DECAMERON'
AND 'CORBACCIO'.
Authors:
Bardin, Gay.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2001 38(149-150): 5-26 22p.
Historical Period:
14c-16c
Subjects:
DRAMA
Machiavelli, Niccolò '(Mandragola)'
Boccaccio, Giovanni '(Corbaccio, Decameron)'
Abstract:
Places Niccolò Machiavelli's play 'The Mandragola' (ca. 1519) in a comparative center between
two works by Giovanni Boccaccio: his playful stories, the 'Decameron' (1349-51), for its voice,
language, and character relationships, and his cynical love tale, the 'Corbaccio' (ca. 1354-55), for
its ideological framework as a misogynist 'operetta.' [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
55:10656
Accession Number:
H001678073.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
REALISMO, INETTITUDINE E FILOSOFIA SCHOPENHAUERIANA NELLE
'MEDIOCRITA' DI EMMA.
Translated Title:
Realism, ineptitude, and Schopenhauerian philosophy in the 'Mediocrita' of Emma.
Authors:
Pierobon, Ermenegilda.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2001 38(149-150): 27-39 13p.
Historical Period:
19c
Subjects:
SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur, 1788-1860
REALISM
FICTION
Emma '(Mediocrità)'
Abstract:
Situates the novel 'Le Mediocrità' (1876) by Emilia Viola Ferretti (1844-1929), known as Emma,
within the realist tradition of Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert, compares it with 'Una Vita'
(1892) by Italo Svevo (1861-1928), and interprets it according to the philosophy of Arthur
Schopenhauer, especially his theories of 'egoism' and the 'will to live.' [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
55:10757
Accession Number:
H001678174.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
FORME DELLA LETTERARIETA IN PRIMO LEVI. DIECI ANNI DI CRITICA (1987-1997).
Translated Title:
Forms of literariness in Primo Levi: ten years of criticism, 1987-97.
Authors:
Santagostino, Giuseppina.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2001 38(149-150): 47-62 16p.
Historical Period:
1980's-90's
Subjects:
CRITICISM
LEVI, Primo
ITALY
Abstract:
Analyzes the most significant literary criticism on Primo Levi (1919-87) to appear in the decade
following his death, including the important introductions to the three-volume Einaudi edition of
his 'Opere,' by Cesare Cases (Vol. 1, 1987), Cesare Segre (Vol. 2, 1988), and Pier Vincenzo
Mengaldo (Vol. 3, 1990). Stresses the recent recognition of the vast complexity of his work and
divides the criticism into four categories: the concentration camp experience and fiction,
strategies of communication, the use of language and narrative forms, and poetry and theater. [J.
T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
55:10789
Accession Number:
H001678206.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
FASCIST ITALY AND THE DUCE: REVISITED AND REASSESSED.
Authors:
Coppa, Frank J.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2001 38(149-150): 63-74 12p.
Historical Period:
1900-45
Subjects:
ITALY
FASCISM
LITERATURE reviews
Abstract:
A composite review of some of the most important English-language monographs on Italian
Fascism to appear in the last decade. Discusses general surveys, including Philip Morgan's
'Italian Fascism, 1919-1945,' John Pollard's 'The Fascist Experience in Italy,' and John Whittam's
'Fascist Italy;' historiographical and interpretive works, including R. J. B. Bosworth's 'The Italian
Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism,'
Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani, eds., 'Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation,'
and Roy Palmer Domenico's 'Italian Fascists on Trial, 1943-1948;' and social and cultural
microstudies, including Franklin Hugh Adler's 'Italian Industrialists, from Liberalism to Fascism:
The Political Development of the Bourgeoisie, 1906-1934,' Jonathan Dunnage's 'The Italian
Police and the Rise of Fascism: A Case Study of the Province of Bologna, 1897-1925,' Carl
Ipsen's 'Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy,' Jeffrey T. Schnapp's
'Staging Fascism: 18 BL and the Theater of Masses for Masses,' and Tim Redmond's 'Ezra Pound
and Italian Fascism.' [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
55:10770
Accession Number:
H001678187.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
L'ITALIA FUORI D'ITALIA: LE SECENTINE ITALIANE DELLA NEWBERRY LIBRARY
DI CHICAGO.
Translated Title:
Italy outside Italy: 17th-century Italian books in the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Authors:
Mancini, Albert N.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2000 37(143-146): 197-208 12p.
Historical Period:
1550-1700
Subjects:
NEWBERRY Library (Chicago, Ill.)
LITERATURE
ITALY
EUROPE, Western
COLLECTIONS
Abstract:
Discusses both the significance of early modern Italian literature and culture for Western Europe,
especially Elizabethan England, and the Newberry Library's collection of 17th-century Italian
books and its importance to researchers, given the recent rediscovery and reevaluation of this
literature by scholars. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
54:18888
Accession Number:
H001666252.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
BERNINI'S BUST OF THE SAVIOR AND THE PROBLEM OF THE HOMELESS IN
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROME.
Authors:
Lavin, Irving.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2000 37(143-146): 209-251 43p.
Historical Period:
17c
Subjects:
ROME
PUBLIC welfare
CHARITY
HOMELESSNESS
ARS moriendi
RELIGIOUS art
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo '(Bust of the Savior)'
Abstract:
Compares the 'Bust of the Savior' and the 'Sangue di Cristo' of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (15981680) to similar images in St. John Lateran and Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, two churches
spiritually linked by Marian processions, and theorizes that Bernini produced them as an
interpretation and application of the traditional 'ars moriendi' (art of dying) and that his nephew
and spiritual adviser, Oratorian priest Francesco Marchese (1623-97), encouraged these
devotional works as public acts of universal charity and had their likenesses incorporated into the
decoration of the new Apostolic Hospice for the Invalid Poor established at the Lateran Palace
under reformist pope Innocent XII (reigned 1691-1700). [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
54:18885
Accession Number:
H001666249.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
ROSSELLINI'S 'PAISA:' NATIONAL IDENTITY BY MEANS OF MONTAGE.
Authors:
Marcus, Millicent.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 2000 37(143-146): 295-302 8p.
Historical Period:
1943-46
Subjects:
WORLD War, 1939-1945
ROSSELLINI, Roberto
REGIONALISM
NATIONAL characteristics
LIBERTY (Periodical)
ITALY
MOTION pictures
'Paisà' (film)
Abstract:
The episodic structure of Roberto Rossellini's film 'Paisà' (1946), depicting six stories during the
Allied liberation of Italy, from Sicily to the Po River, mirrors the difficulty of imposing national
identity by force on a country comprised of sharp regional differences. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
54:16374
Accession Number:
H001663738.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
RENZO DE FELICE: AN OVERVIEW.
Authors:
Delzell, Charles F.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 13-24 12p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
MUSSOLINI, Benito, 1883-1945
ITALY
HISTORIANS
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
A critical summary of the distinguished, yet controversial, career of Renzo De Felice (1929-96),
the Italian revisionist historian of Italian Fascism and author of a monumental four-part
biography of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in eight volumes. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:1983
Accession Number:
H001629343.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
JACOBINISM, MARXISM, AND FASCISM: THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TRAJECTORY
OF RENZO DE FELICE.
Authors:
Cannistraro, Philip V.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 25-32 8p.
Historical Period:
1940's-96
Subjects:
PHILOSOPHY, Marxist
JACOBINS
ITALY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Traces the early Marxist intellectual development and Communist political activity of Italian
historian Renzo De Felice (1929-96), which led to his studies on the Jacobins of Italy, 17891815, but gave way to an anti-Marxist approach in his subsequent work, especially his book
'Storia degli Ebrei sotto il Fascismo' and his multivolume biography of Benito Mussolini (18831945). [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:2918
Accession Number:
H001630278.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
RENZO DE FELICE AND THE HISTORIAN'S TASK.
Authors:
Painter, Borden.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 33-44 12p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
HISTORY -- Philosophy
ITALY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Although anti-Fascism has been the dominant political and historiographical orthodoxy in postWorld War II Italy, Italian historian Renzo De Felice (1929-96) tried to write the history of
Italian Fascism and Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) without regard to politics or ideology but in
fulfillment of the historian's task 'to understand a subject through empirical study based on
documentary evidence.' [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:78
Accession Number:
H001627438.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
DE FELICE'S MUSSOLINI AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF FASCISM.
Authors:
Sarti, Roland.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 45-52 8p.
Historical Period:
1960's-96; 1910's-45
Subjects:
MUSSOLINI, Benito, 1883-1945
BOOKS -- Reviews
HISTORIOGRAPHY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Reviews the multivolume biography of Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) by Renzo De Felice
(1929-96), crediting the historian with making Italian Fascism 'a topic worthy of serious study'
through his commitment to an ethical scientific approach to history, despite the academic
isolation he endured because of leftist hostility to his work. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:2834
Accession Number:
H001630194.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
PATHS TO AN INTERPRETATION: RENZO DE FELICE AND THE DEFINITION OF
FASCISM.
Authors:
Gentile, Emilio.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 53-70 18p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
ITALY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Discusses the evolving nature of Italian historian Renzo De Felice's (1929-96) interpretations of
fascism and Italian Fascism, noting the influence of other social scientists, especially George L.
Mosse (1918-99), De Felice's attempts to determine 'a least common denominator' that would
define a supranational fascist phenomenon, and his consideration of totalitarianism as a model
for comparing Fascism and Nazism. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:453
Accession Number:
H001627813.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
RENZO DE FELICE, FASCISM AND NAZISM: NON-CONVERGING PARALLELS?
Authors:
DeGrand, Alexander.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 71-76 6p.
Historical Period:
1789-1945
Subjects:
POLITICAL science
NATIONAL socialism
ITALY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
GERMANY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Analyzes the interpretation of Italian historian Renzo De Felice (1929-96) regarding the
fundamental difference between Italian Fascism, a Left totalitarian movement inherited from the
French Revolution and containing a progressive focus on the creation of the New Fascist Man,
and German Nazism, a Right totalitarian movement derived from the conservative authoritarian
tradition of Germanic history and legend. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:1866
Accession Number:
H001629226.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
RENZO DE FELICE, RELIGION, THE CHURCH, AND CATHOLICISM IN A WORLD OF
IDEOLOGIES.
Authors:
Moro, Renato.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 77-92 16p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
ITALY
IDEOLOGY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929CATHOLIC Church
Abstract:
Argues for a broad Catholic historiography to go beyond the pro- and anti-Fascist positions, one
grounded in the religious-centered writings of Federico Chabod (1901-60), Delio Cantimori
(1904-66), and Giuseppe De Luca (1898-1962) and made possible by the studies of their disciple
Renzo De Felice (1929-96) on Italian Jacobinism, anti-Semitism, the Catholic Church, and the
political-religious ideology of Italian Fascism. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:2829
Accession Number:
H001630189.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
RENZO DE FELICE AND MUSSOLINI'S FOREIGN POLICY: PRAGMATISM VS.
IDEOLOGY.
Authors:
Burgwyn, James.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 93-103 11p.
Historical Period:
1920's-45
Subjects:
MUSSOLINI, Benito, 1883-1945
ITALY
IDEOLOGY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
INTERNATIONAL relations
FASCISM
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Challenges the perspective of Italian historian Renzo De Felice (1929-96) that Benito Mussolini
(1883-1945) was a pragmatist in foreign policy who continued the Realpolitik policies of liberal
Italy, 1861-1922. The author indicates that it was a determined Fascist ideology that influenced
Mussolini to increasingly side with the destructive policies of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) despite
other more pragmatic alternatives. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:2910
Accession Number:
H001630270.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
DE FELICE AND RESEARCH ON ITALIAN EMIGRATION.
Authors:
Rosoli, Gianfausto.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(141-142): 105-113 9p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
ITALY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
EMIGRATION & immigration
DE Felice, Renzo, 1929Abstract:
Recounts the important contribution Renzo De Felice (1929-96) made to the study of Italian
emigration through his writings and influence, the latter most notably on Philip V. Cannistraro
(b. 1942), and includes a bibliography on Italian emigration listing the writings of De Felice and
his followers, many of which appeared in his journal 'Storia Contemporanea.' [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
53:2833
Accession Number:
H001630193.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE RISORIGIMENTO AS CULTURAL CRISIS: GIOBERTI - MAZZINI - CATTANEO.
Authors:
Salomone, A. William.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(139-140): 9-24 16p.
Historical Period:
1830's-60's
Subjects:
ITALY -- History -- 1815-1870
POLITICAL science
MAZZINI, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
ITALY
GIOBERTI, Vincenzo, 1801-1852
CATTANEO, Carlo
CATHOLIC Church
Abstract:
Analyzes the Catholic reform views of Vincenzo Gioberti (1801-1859), the progressive spiritual
and democratic ideas of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), and the scientific humanism of Carlo
Cattaneo (1801-1869), whose collective thought in the Risorgimento period advocated not only
the political unification of Italy, but also a cultural revolution to change the very fabric of Italian
life. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
52:7725
Accession Number:
H001614512.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
PROPHET IN THE WASTE LAND: MAZZINI AS CULTURAL CRITIC.
Authors:
Salomone, A. William.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(139-140): 25-45 21p.
Historical Period:
1830's-60's
Subjects:
ITALY -- History -- 1815-1870
POLITICAL science
MAZZINI, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
ITALY
EUROPE
CULTURE
Abstract:
Assesses the role of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) as a European cultural force who sought to
transform Italy through a spiritual and cultural Risorgimento. Mazzini's influence went beyond
the political unification of Italy and forward to the liberation of the human spirit and a
Nietzschean transvaluation of values for Italian and European society. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
52:7724
Accession Number:
H001614511.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF ARCANGELO WILLIAM
SALOMONE.
Authors:
Cacchione, Richard D., comp.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(139-140): 47-54 8p.
Historical Period:
19c-20c
Subjects:
UNITED States
SALOMONE, A. William
ITALY
HISTORIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL citations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abstract:
A bibliography of the writings of A. William Salomone (1915-1989), the esteemed Italianist who
taught modern Italian history at New York University and the University of Rochester. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
52:7632
Accession Number:
H001614419.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
LIBERAL ITALY RECONSIDERED.
Authors:
Coppa, Frank J.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1999 36(139-140): 55-62 8p.
Historical Period:
1860's-1920's
Subjects:
LIBERALISM
LITERATURE reviews
ITALY
Abstract:
Reviews eight studies that reflect the renewed interest of social scientists in the previously
neglected liberal age in Italy (1861-1922): Federico Chabod's 'Italian Foreign Policy: The
Statecraft of the Founders' (1996), 'Society and the Professions in Italy: 1860-1914' (1995),
edited by Maria Malatesta, Silvana Patriarca's 'Numbers and Nationhood' (1996), Armand
Patrucco's 'The Critics of the Italian Parliamentary System' (1992), Albert Schram's 'Railways
and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century' (1997), Louise A. Tilly's
'Politics and Class in Milan, 1881-1901' (1992), Gianni Toniolo's 'An Economic History of
Liberal Italy, 1850-1918' (1990), and Geoffrey Wawro's 'The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's
War with Prussia and Italy in 1866' (1996). [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
52:7717
Accession Number:
H001614504.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
SCIENCE AND SELF-REVELATION IN RUGGIERO GIUSEPPE BOSCOVICH'S
'GIORNALE DI UN VIAGGIO DA COSTANTINOPOLI IN POLONIA'.
Authors:
Bufalini, Robert.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1998 35(137-138): 5-12 8p.
Historical Period:
1750's-70's
Subjects:
TRAVEL
JESUITS
EUROPE, Eastern
DIARIES
BOSCOVICH, Ruggero Giuseppe, 1711-1787
Abstract:
The journal of Italian Jesuit mathematician and physicist Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (171187) recounts his trip through eastern Europe in 1762 and is a fine example of 18th-century
scientific travel writing, significant for its personal reflection on religious doubt during the Jesuit
order's declining years. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
52:3786
Accession Number:
H001610565.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
CROCE'S NOTION OF EXTERNALIZATION AND THE ALLEGED 'UNPAINTED
PAINTING'.
Authors:
Xu, Ping.
Source:
Italian Quarterly 1998 35(137-138): 13-22 10p.
Historical Period:
19c-20c
Subjects:
ITALY
CROCE, Benedetto, 1866-1952
ART
AESTHETICS
Abstract:
Presents a theory which refutes the critics of the aesthetic philosophy of Italian statesman,
historian, and philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) by interpreting his view of artistic
activity as an ongoing circular process composed of the simultaneous interaction of the artist's
inner striving (intuition/expression), artistic technique, and physical recording (externalization)
in the production of art. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0021-2954
Entry Number:
51B:7139
Accession Number:
H001604180.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
'COME SCULTOR CHE SCOPRA/GRAND'ARTE IN PICCIOL'OPRA': LUIGI TANSILLO
AND A MINIATURE 'CANZONIERE' IN THE 'RIME DI DIVERSI' OF 1552.
Authors:
Milburn, Erika.
Source:
Italian Studies 2001 56: 4-29 26p.
Historical Period:
16c
Subjects:
POETRY
NAPLES (Italy)
Tansillo, Luigi
Giolito, Gabriel
Abstract:
As a result of its Petrarchan models and its contribution to changes in Mannerist lyric narrative,
the miniature 'canzoniere' of Luigi Tansillo (1510-68), published in an anthology by Gabriel
Giolito (d. 1578), deserves more scholarly attention than is usually given to Neapolitan verse. [J.
T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
55:10708
Accession Number:
H001678125.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
VERACITY, VERSIMILITUDE, AND OPTICS IN PAINTING IN ITALY AT THE TURN OF
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
Authors:
Glanville, Helen.
Source:
Italian Studies 2001 56: 30-56 27p.
Historical Period:
1550-1620
Subjects:
PAINTING
OPTICS
LEONARDO, da Vinci, 1452-1519
ITALY
Mannerism
Abstract:
Demonstrates how various Mannerist painters, influenced by the perspectival theories of
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), including his mixing of pigments and his use of light, shade,
and blue, were able to include a virtual observer into paintings by moving beyond the simulation
of objective reality (verisimilitude) to the creation of an alternative subjective realism (veracity).
[J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
55:10691
Accession Number:
H001678108.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
WOMEN READERS AND THE NOVEL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY.
Authors:
Caesar, Ann Hallamore.
Source:
Italian Studies 2001 56: 80-97 18p.
Historical Period:
19c
Subjects:
WOMEN
READING
FICTION
ITALY
Abstract:
In order to protect women from the perceived worldliness and moral corruption found in
nonfiction books of science, history, or politics - so-called manly reading - women in 19thcentury Italy were restricted in their reading to devotional books earlier in the century and later
to novels, written especially for women, that stressed domesticity or romantic love. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
55:10732
Accession Number:
H001678149.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE ORIGINS AND INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE MSI IN THE EARLY POSTWAR YEARS.
Authors:
Keyse, Paola.
Source:
Italian Studies 2001 56: 98-114 17p.
Historical Period:
1945-95
Subjects:
POLITICAL parties
MOVIMENTO sociale italiano
ITALY
Abstract:
Traces the foundation in 1946 and growth of the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) as a
replacement for Benito Mussolini's Partito Fascista Repubblicano, known as the Salò Republic,
proclaimed in northern Italy in 1943. Stresses the MSI's heterogeneous ideology and its
collaboration in local politics with the ruling Christian Democratic Party until 1995. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
55:10784
Accession Number:
H001678201.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
PASOLINI CON ADORNO: FASCISMO RIVISITATO.
Translated Title:
Pasolini with Adorno: Fascism revisited.
Authors:
Vighi, Fabio.
Source:
Italian Studies 2001 56: 129-147 19p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
PASOLINI, Pier Paolo, 1922-1975
ITALY
GERMANY
FASCISM
Adorno, Theodor '(Dialectic of Enlightenment)'
Abstract:
Posits a parallel between the mature journalistic writings of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75), who
characterized post-1960's Italian society as reflecting a new 'fascism' because of its consumerist
mass culture and the resulting loss of a sense of sacredness in everyday life, and the Frankfurt
School's analysis of Nazism-Fascism, especially as seen in Theodor Adorno's theories of
authoritarianism, alienation, and mimesis in his 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' (1947). [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
55:10791
Accession Number:
H001678208.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE DANGER OF DEMONS: THE ASTROLOGY OF MARSILIO FICINO.
Authors:
Catani, Remo.
Source:
Italian Studies 2000 55: 37-52 16p.
Historical Period:
15c
Subjects:
THEOLOGY
ITALY
FICINO, Marsilio, 1433-1499
ASTROLOGY
Abstract:
Presents an interpretive approach to the seemingly inconsistent thought of Italian scholar
Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), who tried to establish a philosophical-religious syncretism of thought
by integrating astrological writings into proper Church theology and teaching. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
54:18868
Accession Number:
H001666232.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
IL MARCHESE DI ROCCAVERDINA: MYTH, HISTORY, AND HAGIOGRAPHY IN
POST-RISORGIMENTO SICILY.
Authors:
Barnaby, Paul.
Source:
Italian Studies 2000 55: 99-120 22p.
Historical Period:
1901-30's
Subjects:
SOCIAL commentary
FICTION
SICILY (Italy)
Capuana, Luigi '(Marchese di Roccaverdina)'
Abstract:
Analyzes the crime and punishment of the protagonist of Luigi Capuana's 'Il Marchese di
Roccaverdina' (1901) as a political and historical allegory and argues against the traditional
interpretations of Capuana (1839-1915) as a positivist or neo-idealist, viewing him instead as
commenting on the agrarian unrest and decline of feudalism in 1890's Sicily, while critiquing the
ideologies of his day. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
54:18827
Accession Number:
H001666191.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
FASCISM IN FICTION: PRATOLINI RECONSIDERED.
Authors:
Hainsworth, Peter.
Source:
Italian Studies 2000 55: 121-137 17p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
PRATOLINI, Vasco
HISTORY -- Philosophy
FICTION
PHILOSOPHY, Marxist
ITALY
FASCISM
Abstract:
Interprets the fiction of Italian author Vasco Pratolini (1913-91) in light of his Marxist view of
history, which led him, like the characters in his novels, to overcome his initial commitment to
Italian Fascism and join the resistance movement, taking part in the Communist struggle against
fascism and bourgeois capitalism. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
54:18838
Accession Number:
H001666202.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
LEZIONE SU 'LA MALORA' DI BEPPE FENOGLIO.
Translated Title:
A reading of Beppe Fenoglio's 'Ruin'.
Authors:
Saccone, Eduardo.
Source:
Italian Studies 2000 55: 138-150 13p.
Historical Period:
ca 1945-63
Subjects:
FICTION
ITALY
Fenoglio, Beppe '(Malora)'
Abstract:
Interprets Italian author Beppe Fenoglio's (1922-63) 'La Malora' as a tale of resistance in which
the peasant named Agostino, through his snobbish toughness, obstinately resists his heredity and
suffering despite succumbing to his misfortune. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
54:18954
Accession Number:
H001666318.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
CECIL GRAYSON.
Authors:
Woodhouse, J. R.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 1-4 4p.
Historical Period:
1920-98
Subjects:
RENAISSANCE
LITERATURE -- History & criticism
ITALY
HISTORIANS
GREAT Britain
Grayson, Cecil (obituary)
Abstract:
An obituary of famed Oxford Italianist Cecil Grayson (1920-98), a leading scholar and translator
of Italian Renaissance literature, notably the works of Leon Battista Alberti. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51A:7976
Accession Number:
H001599844.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF CECIL GRAYSON.
Authors:
Rhodes, Dennis E., comp.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 5-12 8p.
Historical Period:
ca 15c-16c; 1949-98
Subjects:
RENAISSANCE
LITERATURE -- History & criticism
ITALY
GRAYSON, Cecil
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL citations
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abstract:
A chronological bibliography of the books, articles, book reviews, and translations published
from 1949 to 1998 by Cecil Grayson (1920-98), a noted British historian and translator of Italian
Renaissance literature. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51A:10740
Accession Number:
H001602612.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
CARLO DIONISOTTI.
Authors:
Richardson, Brian and Saxby, Nelia.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 13-17 5p.
Historical Period:
1908-98
Subjects:
LITERATURE -- History & criticism
ITALY
HISTORIANS
Dionisotti, Carlo (obituary)
Abstract:
An obituary and an appreciation of Italian literary historian Carlo Dionisotti (1908-98), whose
teaching and scholarship influenced post-World War II British Italianists to view Italian
literature in its historical, political, and cultural contexts. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51A:7956
Accession Number:
H001599824.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
MARINO, LE STREGHE, IL CARDINALE.
Translated Title:
Marino, the witches, the cardinal.
Authors:
Slawinski, Maurizio.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 52-84 33p.
Historical Period:
1580's-1623
Subjects:
WITCHCRAFT
EPIC poetry
ITALY
INQUISITION
Scaglia, Desiderio
Marino, Giambattista '(Adone)'
Abstract:
Proposes that Giovan Battista (Giambattista) Marino's (1569-1625) treatment of nature, religion,
and the supernatural in his epic poem 'L'Adone' (1623) was influenced by Cardinal Desiderio
Scaglia's (1567-1639) analyses of witchcraft written while Scaglia was an Inquisitor General of
the Roman Inquisition. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51A:10747
Accession Number:
H001602619.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT OF LORD
CHARLEMONT'S MANUSCRIPT 'HISTORY OF ITALIAN POETRY FROM DANTE TO
METASTASIO'.
Authors:
Talbot, George.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 85-101 17p.
Historical Period:
13c-18c
Subjects:
POETRY
LITERATURE -- History & criticism
ITALIANS
Charlemont, 1st Earl of '(History of Italian Poetry from Dante to Metastasio)'
Abstract:
James Caulfield (1728-99), 4th Viscount and 1st Earl of Charlemont, was a Dublin-born
Italophile whose grand tours of Italy inspired him to produce a manuscript history in English of
Italian poetry. The work was intended to legitimize the Italian literary tradition in the Englishspeaking world. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51A:10640
Accession Number:
H001602512.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
LA CRITICA MILITANTE DI GIUSEPPE ANTONIO BORGESE.
Translated Title:
The militant criticism of Giuseppe Antonio Borgese.
Authors:
Parisi, Luciano.
Source:
Italian Studies 1999 54: 102-117 16p.
Historical Period:
1910's-52
Subjects:
POLITICAL science
CRITICISM
JOURNALISM
ITALY
Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio
Abstract:
The short journalistic pieces written by Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882-1952) for 'La Stampa'
and 'Il Corriere della Sera' form a coherent proactive body of literary criticism that provide
original interpretative syntheses of his contemporaries' literary works and that contrast greatly
with his academic writings, which were reactive to the literary theories of other critics, especially
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952). [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
Italian
ISSN:
0075-1634
Entry Number:
51B:9001
Accession Number:
H001605808.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
ABBOT SCAGLIA, THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND ANGLO-SAVOYARD
RELATIONS DURING THE 1620S.
Authors:
Osborne, Toby.
Source:
European History Quarterly 2000 30(1): 5-32 28p.
Historical Period:
1620's
Subjects:
SPAIN
SAVOY (France & Italy)
ENGLAND
DIPLOMACY
CHARLES Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, 1562-1630
BUCKINGHAM, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628
Scaglia, Alessandro Cesare
Abstract:
Analyzes in detail the diplomatic efforts of Abbot Alessandro Cesare Scaglia (1592-1641), the
ordinary ambassador of Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy (1562-1630), in brokering a peace
between England and Spain in the 1620's. Charles Emmanuel sought Spain's support in his
claims to the throne of Montferrat. This claim came at the cost of war with rival claimant Mantua
and, potentially, conflict with Richelieu's France. Scaglia's goal was to further Anglo-French
hostilities to keep France continually occupied militarily in the Atlantic, giving Savoy a free
hand in northern Italy. This he attempted through his personal rapport with the duke of
Buckingham, George Villiers (1592-1628), and by extension Charles I of England. Their interest
in closer dynastic, artistic, and cultural ties to Catholic Europe attracted them to Scaglia, whose
status as an art connoisseur and cultured Catholic greatly impressed them. The abbot's diplomacy
is usually a neglected aspect of power politics in the 1620's. Charles I's parliamentary
difficulties, combined with Buckingham's premature death in 1628, eroded Scaglia's influence in
England, leading ultimately to the failure of his diplomacy. Anglo-French hostilities soon ceased
and there was a renewal of French preoccupation with northern Italy. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on material in the Public Record Office, Archivio di Stato di Torino, Archives du
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, and other archives; 70 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:2190
Accession Number:
H001608966.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE BUDGET DEBATE OF 1926: A CASE STUDY IN WEIMAR DEMOCRACY.
Authors:
Clingan, C. Edmund.
Source:
European History Quarterly 2000 30(1): 33-48 16p.
Historical Period:
ca 1926
Subjects:
GERMANY
ECONOMIC policy
DEMOCRACY
DEBATES & debating
BUDGET
Abstract:
The widely held view of the 1926 German budget as a contributing cause to the economic
depression later in the decade is misleading. The German economic slump was due instead to
mistakes made during 1929-32. The Weimar budget of 1926, devised by Finance Minister Peter
Reinhold and supported by Chancellor Hans Luther (1879-1962), sought to foster economic
growth by cutting taxes. It was the first German budget passed by the annual 1 April deadline.
The debates in the Reichsrat and Reichstag exemplified the Weimar democratic system working
in a normal fashion and saw reasoned debate take place among Social Democrats, the Nationalist
Party, the Catholic Center, the People's Party, and other factions. Interest groups on the right and
the left were vocal and influenced the proceedings considerably. Concessions on the part of
Reinhold and compromises on the various taxes outlined in the budget contributed to its passage.
The budget of 1926 can be seen as a 'premature attempt at societal corporatism,' the real policy
failure occurring when the budget was not followed the next year. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on 'Akten der Reichskanzlei,' 'Verhandlungen des Deutsches Reichstags,' and documents
in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz; 61 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:3660
Accession Number:
H001610438.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE PRIETO - GIL-ROBLES MEETING OF OCTOBER 1947: BRITAIN AND THE
FAILURE OF THE SPANISH ANTI-FRANCO COALITION, 1945-50.
Authors:
Dunthorn, David J.
Source:
European History Quarterly 2000 30(1): 49-75 27p.
Historical Period:
1945-50
Subjects:
SPAIN
PRIETO, Indalecio
OPPOSITION (Political science)
GREAT Britain
INTERNATIONAL relations
COALITIONS
Gil Robles, José María
Abstract:
In 1947 the British Foreign Office assisted the external opposition against the regime of General
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) in Spain by bringing together for negotiations in London the
leader of the republicans, Indalecio Prieto (1883-1962), and his monarchist counterpart, José
María Gil Robles (1898-1980). The pretender to the throne of Spain, Don Juan de Borbón (191393), was still maneuvering for a return to power in the form of a constitutional monarchy to
replace Franco's dictatorship. In the context of the burgeoning Cold War, and with the risk of
civil war great if Franco's regime fell, Britain pursued a contradictory policy of aiding
negotiations between opposition leaders but staying clear of direct support for anti-Franco
initiatives. The Tripartite Declaration (France, Britain, United States) to the UN in March 1946
and a UN General Assembly resolution in December 1946 called for consensual government and
free elections in Spain. The meetings between Prieto and Gil Robles led to the Pact of Saint Jean
de Luz in August 1948, in which both sides compromised regarding the role of the monarchy in a
post-Franco government. It was stillborn, however, because Don Juan had meanwhile agreed
with Franco to honor the latter's succession law, effectively ending any hope of his replacing the
dictator. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on material in the Archives of the Presidency of the Government and Head of State in
Madrid, the Pablo Iglesias Foundation, the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
Madrid, and the Public Record Office in London; 64 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:2208
Accession Number:
H001608984.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE 'REGIME-MODEL' OF FASCISM: A TYPOLOGY.
Authors:
Kallis, Aristotle A.
Source:
European History Quarterly 2000 30(1): 77-104 28p.
Historical Period:
1918-45
Subjects:
POLITICAL systems
MODELS & modelmaking
FASCISM
EUROPE
Abstract:
Accepts the bilateral view of two types or phases of fascism, one as movement and one as
regime, and offers a further explication of the regime model of fascism. Four components are
outlined: ideology, domestic consolidation, long-term policymaking, and scope of ambitions. Of
the nation-states analyzed, Nazi Germany is seen as the most extreme and dynamic version of the
regime model in every component. Fascist Italy is characterized as the archetypal fascist regime.
The other countries surveyed include Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Hungary, and Romania,
all of which departed from the conventional model of authoritarian regimes by incorporating
some but not all aspects of fascism. These regimes adopted a fascist profile and aped formalistic
aspects of the fascist style, but lacked the alternative political visions that set Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy apart. The latter two created new versions of authoritarianism based on a radical
reordering of social forces, forms of participation, and long-term political objectives. [J. T.
Mellone]
Notes:
Based mostly on secondary sources; 56 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:2108
Accession Number:
H001608883.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
WHY THE FRENCH FAILED: NEW WORK ON THE MILITARY HISTORY OF FRENCH
IMPERIALISM 1792-1815.
Authors:
Black, Jeremy.
Source:
European History Quarterly 2000 30(1): 105-115 11p.
Historical Period:
1792-1815
Subjects:
NAPOLEONIC Wars, 1800-1815
MILITARY history
BOOKS -- Reviews
FRANCE -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Abstract:
Reviews three new military histories of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic era: Paddy
Griffith's 'The Art of War of Revolutionary France 1789-1802,' David Gates's 'The Napoleonic
Wars 1802-1815,' and Rory Muir's 'Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon 1807-1815,' which is in
essence a bibliographic essay that discusses the most significant works in English to appear on
this topic in recent years. These works reflect the apparent demise of military history as a valued
genre in academic circles. There is a dearth of academic appointments of military historians in
Britain and an even greater one in the United States. This is offset by the quality military history
done usually by nonacademics, work that is thoroughly researched, well written, and insightful.
The works help explain Napoleon's overextension of his political and military systems. [J. T.
Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:409
Accession Number:
H001607178.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
THE GERMAN NATIONAL LEAGUE IN BRITAIN AND IDEAS OF A GERMAN
OVERSEAS EMPIRE, 1859-67.
Authors:
Kirchberger, Ulrike.
Source:
European History Quarterly 1999 29(4): 451-483 33p.
Historical Period:
1840's-60's
Subjects:
PROPAGANDA
DEUTSCHER Nationalverein
IMPERIALISM
GREAT Britain
GERMANY
IMMIGRANTS
Abstract:
Prior to German unification under Prussia (1866-70), Germans in Britain were propagandized by
the German National Union (Deutscher Nationalverein) or National League in order to foster
allegiance to their stateless homeland. Rather than assist expatriate Germans in assimilating into
British society, the National Union stressed the values of a worldwide German community
abroad - its German language, culture, and history. Through articles in 'Hermann,' its weekly
periodical, the National Union advocated a unified and democratic Germany but also strongly
supported the establishment of a German overseas empire. Political exiles from the Revolution of
1848 were leaders in this call to colonialism. Unlike their compatriots in Germany, where
internal concerns were paramount, they observed the effects of empire in fostering British
nationalism, and through a competitive imitation saw colonial possessions as a way to further
unification. The efforts of the German National Union in Britain foreshadowed the late-19thcentury German nationalism and imperialism that tried to achieve great power status for
Germany through an overseas empire rivaling the empires of France and Britain. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on 'Hermann' and secondary sources; 75 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
52:6514
Accession Number:
H001613301.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
'AGAINST THE STATE': A GENEALOGY OF THE BARCELONA MAY DAYS (1937).
Authors:
Graham, Helen.
Source:
European History Quarterly 1999 29(4): 485-542 58p.
Historical Period:
1936-37
Subjects:
BARCELONA (Spain)
POLITICAL parties
RIGHT & left (Political science)
CIVIL war
CIVIL disobedience
Abstract:
Analyzes the struggles between the political parties of the Left in Catalonia in Republican Spain
during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: the Esquerra, the Confederación Nacional de Trabajo,
the Federación Anarquista Ibérica, the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, and the Partido
Socialista Unificado de Cataluña. The Generalitat, the autonomous Catalan government led by
President Lluis Companys (1883-1940), struggled to maintain order in the face of mounting civil
unrest caused by the generally poor working conditions of the urban proletariat and shortages of
food and other rationed materials. Political agitation led to the Barcelona street rebellion in May
1937, which saw the anarchist militia forces of these political parties barricade streets and
occupy the Barcelona telephone exchange. With war production at risk, as well as the stability of
the politically fractured Republican army at the Aragon front, the central Republican government
sent state troops to assist the police forces of the Generalitat in disarming the general populace
and quashing the militia-led rebellion. The May suppression was a critical component in the
consolidation of centralized state power and the end of revolutionary political power within a
newly nationalized Republic. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based mostly on secondary sources; 2 maps, 161 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
51B:9077
Accession Number:
H001605873.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
FALANGE, AUTARKY AND CRISIS: THE BARCELONA GENERAL STRIKE OF 1951.
Authors:
Richards, Michael.
Source:
European History Quarterly 1999 29(4): 543-585 43p.
Historical Period:
1945-51
Subjects:
STRIKES & lockouts, Sympathetic
BARCELONA (Spain)
FASCISM
ECONOMIC policy
AUTARCHY
Abstract:
The Franco regime in Spain pursued an economic policy of autarky in the 1940's, that decreased
wages, raised prices, and caused poverty among the general populace. Periodic resistance in the
late 1940's culminated in December 1950 when the Barcelona tram fare was increased without a
concomitant increase in Madrid. Outraged at the unequal treatment, the separatist-minded
Catalan populace staged a boycott of the privately owned, state-backed Barcelona tram company.
Instigated by students of the Sindicato Español Universitario, old-guard dissidents of the Central
Nacional Sindicalista, and the Juntas de Agitación Nacional Sindicalistas, violence ensued due to
the intransigence of the civil authorities. In response to police killings of protesters, workers
inspired by the Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña staged a general strike in March 1951.
Police soon ended demonstrations by making a thousand arrests, executing protest leaders, and
sending workers back to work. Although the regime was never seriously threatened, unrest
spread to other cities, moving the regime to economic and political reform. The general strike of
1951 can be seen as a turning point in the Franco regime in its move from 1940's fascist
repression to 1950's authoritarian rule. [J. T. Mellone]
Notes:
Based on Foreign Office papers in the British Public Record Office (London) and records of the
Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista in Madrid;
160 notes.
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
51B:9096
Accession Number:
H001605891.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts
Title:
POLITICAL CHANGE IN EASTERN EUROPE.
Authors:
Gallagher, Tom.
Source:
European History Quarterly 1999 29(4): 587-594 8p.
Historical Period:
20c
Subjects:
POLITICAL change
BOOKS -- Reviews
EUROPE, Eastern
Abstract:
Reviews Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries's revisionist historical survey, 'A History of Eastern
Europe: Crisis and Change' (1998); Vladimir Tismaneanu's political and intellectual history,
'Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe' (1998);
'Crises in the Balkans: Views from the Participants' (1997), edited by Constantine P. Danopoulos
and Kostas G. Messas, a well-rounded critique of Western policies in the various Balkan states;
Albert P. Melone's account of Bulgaria's success after 1989, 'Creating Parliamentary
Government: The Transition to Democracy in Bulgaria' (1998); and 'Central Europe in the
Twentieth Century: An Economic History Perspective' (1997), a collection of essays by
economic historians on attempts in Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Romania to
overcome economic backwardness edited by Alice Teichova. [J. T. Mellone]
Publication Type:
Academic Journal
Document Type:
Article
Language:
English
ISSN:
0265-6914
Entry Number:
51B:9481
Accession Number:
H001606248.01
Database:
Historical Abstracts