Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic: Traders, Priests, and Their Kin Travelling between North America and the Italian Peninsula, 1763–1846
© 2018
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.
Product Details
- Series: Emilio Goggio Publications Series
- World Rights
- Page Count: 552 pages
- Dimensions: 6.1in x 1.6in x 9.2in
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Reviews
"Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic represents a historical ‘cross-over,’ where the history of Italy, Italian migration, Catholicism, and colonial North America are questioned simultaneously. In this way, Luca Codignola answers many questions, including why Italians migrated to North America, how they were accepted, and what kind of relationship was linking Italy to North America. Codignola has written a very important contribution to the study of transatlantic history between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
Matteo Sanfilippo, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e della Comunicazione, Università degli Studi della Tuscia"In examining the mobility of ideas, trade, and Catholic networks, Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic convincingly reveals the significant impact of merchants, missionaries, priests, and lay travellers from both North America and Italy, while connecting them to enlightenment ideals. It is a model of the kind of research any historian might wish to teach advanced students."
Donna Gabaccia, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough -
Author Information
Luca Codignola is a Senior Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Adjunct Professor at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, and Professeur Associé at Université de Montréal. -
Table of contents
Foreword by Olga Zorzi Pugliese
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
AbbreviationsIntroduction: "Contributors" and the "Enlightened" or, the Invention of Italianness
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?1. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Cod Fish, Leghorn, and Genoa, 1744–1839
The Cod Fish Networks, 1766–85
Leghorn, 1744–88
Genoa, 1759–18392. Early Relations between the Italian Peninsula and North America: Naples, Turin, Venice, Trieste, and Milan, 1761–1825
Naples and Sicily, 1778–1809
Turin and Piedmont, 1777–1825
Venice and Trieste, 1761–96
Milan and Lombardy, 1784–18243. Rome, the Italian Peninsula's Most International Capital: Students, Consuls, and Distinguished Visitors, 1788–1848
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, 1783–18204. Rome: Priests across the Ocean and the Extent of Romanization, 1801–36
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, 1818–295. North Atlantic Networks of Trade and Religion: Leghorn and Filippo Filicchi, 1788–1816
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, 1785–18426. Antonio Filicchi's Business and Personal Networks across the North Atlantic, 1816–47
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, 1828–417. Angelo Inglesi, from Rome with Love: The Ultimate Scoundrel Priest in North America, c.1795–1825
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”, 1823–4Conclusion: Lives of Non-Illustrious Men
Tables
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, 1828–41Bibliography
Primary Sources
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Reference Works
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Secondary SourcesIndex
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