Category:Italian American Studies (Risorgimento)

Italian American Studies (Risorgimento)

Italian liberals & political refugees

• See Gli Stati Uniti come meta

The idea of America as the Land of Freedom spread very early among Italian intellectuals and patriots.

Agostino Codazzi, and Costante Ferrari (on their way to South America)

• 1773-1779 & 1785 -- Filippo Mazzei [visitor]

• 1774 - Carlo Bellini

• 1791-1794 - Giuseppe Ceracchi [visitor]

• 1822-23 - Felice Argenti [settled] (torna in Italia per rientrare negli USa nel 1836)

• 1823 - Giacomo Costantino Beltrami [visitor, 1823-26] -- Giuseppe Avezzana (briefly, later settled)

• 1824 - Orazio De Attellis Santangelo (1824)

• 1825 - Ignazio Batolo (alias Pietro Bachi) [settled]

• 1833 - Piero Maroncelli [settled, 1833-1846]

• 1834 -- Giuseppe Avezzana [settled] (permanently)

• 1836 - [SS Ussaro] Luigi Tinelli [settled], Pietro Borsieri, Gaetano De Castillia, and Eleuterio Felice Foresti [settled], Felice Argenti [settled], Giovanni Albinola -- Antonio Gallega -- Giovanni Francesco Secchi de’ Casali (1836?)

• 1837 - Federico Confalonieri (breve soggiorno, solo pochi mesi), Francesco Arese Lucini

• 1841 - Congrega Centrale della Giovine Italia per l’America del Nord, founded by Foresti

• 1850 - Tullio De Suzzara Verdi -- Domenico Minnelli -- Luigi Monti

• 1850-1896 - Journal "“L’Eco d’Italia” (New York) founded by Casali.

• 1851 - Leonetto Cipriani (see also Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Barilli (alias Quirico Filopanti, breve soggiorno), Pasquale Enrico Papiri

• 1853 - Vincenzo Botta

• 1853 - Lecture tour by Alessandro Gavazzi, at the invitation of the American and Foreign Christian Union.

• 1860 - Cipriani

• 1861? - Enrico Fardella

• 1862 - Garibaldi Harper's Magazine Cover