Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic : : Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763-1846 / / Luca Codignola.

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• VerfasserIn: Codignola, Luca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Emilio Goggio Publications Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)

Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving between 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 challenges the idea that national origin, for instance, Italianness, comprises the only significant feature of a group's identity, and reveals instead the multifaceted personalities of the people involved in these exchanges.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Contributors" and the "Enlightened," or the Invention of Italianness -- Chapter One. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Codfish, Leghorn, and Genoa, 1744-1839 -- Chapter Two. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Naples, Turin, Venice, Trieste, and Milan, 1761-1825 -- Chapter Three. Rome, the Italian Peninsula's Most International Capital: Students, Consuls, and Distinguished Visitors, 1788-1848 -- Chapter Four. Rome: Priests across the Ocean and the Extent of Romanization, 1801-1836 -- Chapter Five. North Atlantic Networks of Trade and Religion: Leghorn and Filippo Filicchi, 1788-1816 -- Chapter Six. Antonio Filicchi's Business and Personal Networks across the North Atlantic, 1816-1847 -- Chapter Seven. Angelo Inglesi, from Rome with Love: The Ultimate Scoundrel Priest in North America, c. 1795-1825 -- Conclusion. Lives of Non-illustrious Men -- List of Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index