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Blurred Nationalities Across the North Atlantic
Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling Between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763-1846
Luca Codignola (Author)
9781487504564
Hardback, published 25 January 2019
552 pages
22.9 x 16.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.88 kg
"Codignola’s case studies are compelling, and the enormous extent of the research that went into his work is testified by the 160 pages of endnotes […] There is no doubt that his work is an important contribution to the study of Italian-North American relations and more generally to the study of transnational links across the Atlantic and into the Mediterranean between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries."
Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were frequently moving between North America – specifically, the United States and British North America – and Leghorn, Genoa, Naples, Rome, Sicily, Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice, and Trieste. Predominantly traders, sailors, transient workers, Catholic priests, and seminarians, this group relied on the exchange of goods across the Atlantic to solidify transatlantic relations; during this period, stories about the New World passed between travellers through word of mouth and letter writing. Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic challenges the idea that national origin – for instance, Italianness – constitutes the only significant feature of a group’s identity, revealing instead the multifaceted personalities of the people involved in these exchanges.
Foreword by Olga Zorzi Pugliese Introduction: "Contributors" and the "Enlightened" or, the Invention of Italianness 1. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Cod Fish, Leghorn, and Genoa, 1744–1839 2. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Naples, Turin, Venice, Trieste, and Milan, 1761–1825 3. Rome, the Italian Peninsula's Most International Capital: Students, Consuls, and Distinguished Visitors, 1788–1848 4. Rome: Priests across the Ocean and the Extent of Romanization, 1801–36 5. North Atlantic Networks of Trade and Religion: Leghorn and Filippo Filicchi, 1788–1816 6. Antonio Filicchi's Business and Personal Networks across the North Atlantic, 1816–47 7. Angelo Inglesi, from Rome with Love: The Ultimate Scoundrel Priest in North America, c.1795–1825 Conclusion: Lives of Non-Illustrious Men Tables Bibliography Index
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Colombo, Caboto, Verrazzano: Allegiance to What?
From Bressani the Jesuit to Castiglioni the Traveller
Were Travel Reports Trustworthy and Influential?
The "Contribution School": The Illusory Search for Completeness
The "Enlightenment School": Were They All Real Italians?
The Cod Fish Networks, 1766–85
Leghorn, 1744–88
Genoa, 1759–1839
Naples and Sicily, 1778–1809
Turin and Piedmont, 1777–1825
Venice and Trieste, 1761–96
Milan and Lombardy, 1784–1824
Two American Young Men in the Eternal City, 1788–97
Sartori's Double Allegiance: Roman and American Consul, 1793–1841
Cicognani: Rome's Trusted American Consul, 1810–48
Literary Legacy: Thayer, Plessis, and Grassi, 1783–1820
Rome's Catholic Priests Go to North America: Their Background and Heritage, 1801–30
North American Priests in Rome: Competing Networks, 1815–30
The Moulding of a North American Catholic Élite: The Urban College, 1815–36
The Moulding of a North American Catholic Élite: The Roman College, 1818–29
F. Filicchi's and A. Filicchi's Role in Leghorn's Political and Economic Life, 1788–1840
F. Filicchi's Early Life and Career, 1763–85
F. Filicchi's Two Visits to the United States, 1785–8, 1789–90
F. Filicchi: Leghorn's Trusted American Consul, 1794–8
Networks of People and Interests: The Seton-Bayley-Curson Extended Family, 1784–1857
Networks of People and Interests: F. Filicchi, A. Filicchi, and the American Catholics, 1785–1842
People, Goods, and Ideas in A. Filicchi's Activities, 1816–47
The Entrepreneur: Vito Viti, 1828–41
The Scientist: Carlo L. Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, 1828–39
Merchants and Traders, 1828–41
Artists and Kin, 1828–41
Inglesi's European Background and Arrival in Quebec City, 1795–1819
Louisiana: Inglesi Enthrals Bishop Dubourg, 1819–20
Louisiana: Early Doubts Creep In, 1822–3
Europe: Inglesi's Fundraising Tour, 1820–1
Rome: Inglesi, a Man Sent by Providence, 1821
Rome and Umbria: Suspicions and Reality, 1821
From Tuscany to France: Inglesi Retraces His Steps, 1822–3
Philadelphia: Joining the Hogan Schism, 1823
Philadelphia to Haiti: Inglesi's Ignominious End, 1824–5
Inglesi's Last Supporters: Father Rese and Consul Deabbate in Defence of a "Son of Italy", 1823–4
Cod (Stoccafisso), Salted Cod (Baccalà), and Salmon Imports from North America to Leghorn, 1766–99
Arrivals (50) in Leghorn of Ships from North America, 1770–4
Roles of the Crews of Six Leghorn Ships That Voyaged to North America Listed by Hierarchical Standing, 1779–85
Ships in Genoa, 1785–94
Ships in Genoa, 1815–7
Ships and Atlantic Crossings from and to Leghorn, 1792–5
Registered Visitors to the Consulate of the United States in Rome, 1824–35
North American Students at the Urban College, Rome, 1788–1842
Alabaster and Marble as Mentioned in the Documents of the Lettere Series in the Archivio Filicchi, 1828–41
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