From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana (eBook)

A Brief History of Italian Studies at Columbia University

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From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana - Barbara Faedda
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The Casa Italiana has represented Italian culture on Columbia University’s campus since 1927. Celebrating the Casa’s ninetieth anniversary, From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana documents and recounts the history of the individuals, both Italian and American, who contributed to the formation of Columbia University’s rich tradition of Italian studies.
The Casa Italiana-a neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Street-has been the most important expression of the Italian presence on Columbia University's campus since its construction in 1927. As a site of interdisciplinary scholarship and promotion of Italian culture, the Casa Italiana has made a substantial contribution to the academic study of Italy in America and the understanding of Italian cultural identity abroad. Celebrating the Casa's ninetieth anniversary, From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana documents and recounts the history of the individuals, both Italian and American, who contributed to the formation of Columbia University's rich tradition of Italian studies.Barbara Faedda's succinct yet detailed historical survey begins at the dawn of Italian studies at Columbia with Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart's witty librettist who became the charismatic founder of the New York Metropolitan Opera and Columbia's first professor of Italian. Covering figures such as the former revolutionary Eleuterio Felice Foresti, Faedda elucidates the complex and often controversial dimensions of the Casa's history, highlighting protagonists such as the talented but equivocal Giuseppe Prezzolini and Columbia's president Nicholas M. Butler, as well as Italian-American students and community members. The Casa played a significant role in U.S.-Italian relations from its foundation, and at one point it came under fire, accused of ties to Mussolini and pro-Fascist leanings. Synthesizing archival documents with the work of historians, From Da Ponte to the Casa Italiana tells the compelling stories of the Casa and several of its leading figures, whose influence on the university can still be felt today.

Barbara Faedda is the associate director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, where she is also adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Italian. Among other works, she is the editor of Present and Future Memory: Holocaust Studies at the Italian Academy (2008-2016) (2016).

Foreword, by John H. Coatsworth, Provost of Columbia University in the City of New YorkForeword, by Armando Varricchio, Ambassador of Italy to the United StatesForeword, by Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York CityIntroduction1. The Dawn of Italian Studies at Columbia University: Lorenzo Da Ponte (1825–1838) 2. After Da Ponte: Eleuterio Felix Foresti and His Successors (1838–1911)3. The Casa Italiana: The Realization of an Ambitious Dream (1920s)4. Prezzolini, Controversial Casa Director, and World War II (1930s and 1940s)Appendix A: From Lorenzo da Ponte to Charles V. Paterno: Libri Italiani at Columbia University, by Meredith LevinAppendix B: Anatomy of the Casa Italiana’s Façade, by Francesco BenelliAppendix C: The Casa Italiana Educational Bureau: A Research “Fact-Finding Institution” Studying the Italian-American Community, by Javier GrossuttiAcknowledgmentsNotesColor Plates

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.11.2017
Reihe/Serie Columbiana
Zusatzinfo 40 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 0-231-54640-8 / 0231546408
ISBN-13 978-0-231-54640-9 / 9780231546409
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