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If ever it comes to pass, that an American university or college develops a Patria Meridionale curriculum, dedicated to educating the near 17 million Americans of southern-Italian descent about their mighty history and culture, then no doubt Guy de Maupassant's "Sicily" will be required reading. It will probably come as a shocking heretical statement to the philo-Florence /Chicago literati who own and operate America's Italian Studies programs, that an artistic genius such as Maupassant thought "Sicily an indispensable land to see and one unique in the world ... a divine museum of architecture” – that is, a UNIQUELY SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE! He writes: “When we have seen all these monuments that - although belong to different periods and types - have the SAME CHARACTER the SAME NATURE, we can say that they are neither Gothic, nor Arab, nor Byzantine, but SICILIAN. We can affirm that there exists a Sicilian art and a Sicilian style...THE MOST IMAGINATIVE OF ALL ARCHITECTUAL STYLES.” (emp. +) ---- 'But Of Course'; a Sicilian architecture ignored by the Italian Studies’ Chairs of Wisdom; and by ignoring, thereby insulting American Terroni who are heirs to that great artistic tradition. SUNY Stony Brook's “Manifesto of Italian Studies”, albeit eloquent, is factual inaccurate. The FACT is impeccably documented in the catalogue curriculum and course descriptions from Long Island to Los Angeles; from Ivy League to Community Colleges – American Terroni history and culture is STILL: “In the BASEMENT”! (e.g. see conclusion of “John Domini...” #1 in related articles box)
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“Terroni e Polentoni”, a discussion on the two most controversial facets of the Italian identity at ILICA’s 7th Annual Cultural Event
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Interview with writer and President Emeritus of the Order of Journalists Lorenzo Del Boca who on November 10 will join Pino Aprile at the symposium “Terroni e Polentoni” organized by ILICA. It will be an opportunity to reflect on the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy whose history, according to some, should be rewritten
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Interview with journalist Pino Aprile, author of the successful and contested book Terroni about the conflict between the North, South, and unification of Italy. The cover image of the book effectively communicates its theme: a map of Italy that’s been turned upside down with Sicily on top. The writer tells us about the topics that will be addressed during the upcoming debate between him and Lorenzo del Boca (author of another controversial book entitled Polentoni), moderated by Prof. Anthony J. Tamburri of the Calandra Institute.
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A meeting with the young translator of "Terroni" authored by Pino Aprile. A book that is hard to convey in English, so we asked her how she approached this challenge.
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Presented at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Pino Aprile's book sheds an alternative light on the meaning of the Italian unification. "'Meridionalismo' is a kind of construction by the winners"
