What Italy Meant to Them: English Grand Tour Travelers and Charles Dickens
Upper-class Europeans and North Americans have always ranked Italy at the top of their…
Kenneth Scambray
John Fante’s Full of Life, and the House of Un-American Activities Committee
Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1909, of an Italian immigrant father and an Italian-American…
Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Italian Novel in California
As Italian Liberation Day approaches every April 25th, the editorial pages of Italy’s…
Jim Crow and Italian Immigrants in the American West
The 1920s saw the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the West, especially in Colorado…
Sicilian Ruins: Resurrecting Poggioreale
In a June 2012 editorial in a local Piedmont newspaper on the earthquake in…
Rome, Eataly Fresh Pasta and Concupiscent Curds
In his recent effort to return to power, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi said…
Re-Imagining Southern Italy Part II, Calabria
As we crossed the Strait of Messina, I suppose I had pretty much reconciled…
A History of Light – Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers
A History of Light – Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers by Kenneth Scambray The…
Baldassare Forestiere’s Underground Gardens
Baldassare Forestiere’s Underground Gardens is a work of art that expresses the…
Renaissance Italian Masters and the Art of Alan Pascuzzi
Not only does Alan Pascuzzi live in Florence, he gets paid for doing his life’s…