The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies

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Index Abbruzzi, 57, 71, 73, 108. See also L’Aquila Alaska, 66, 84, 87, 185n92 Aleramo, Sibilla, 117 Alger, Horatio, 61, 62, 144, 151, 153 alienation, 30, 119, 147, 171n92 Amore, B., 207n95, anarchists, 65, 67, 70, 157n6, 167n57 Anderson, Linda, 160n3, 169n2 Andreoni, Antonio, 40, 83, 84, 88, 89 Antonelli, Quinto, 43 Apennines, 56, 93, 94, 119 Ariosto, Ludovico, 38, 86 Aristotle, 43 Arrighi, Antonio, 104, 107–10 Arru, Giovanni, 41, 59 Augustine, Saint, 105 autobiography: definitions of, 11–13; from unexpected places, 3, 158n11; and history, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14–16, 17, 20, 21, 25, 32, 39, 65, 66, 116; and Copernican revolution, 16; as object –book, 4, 28, 101; as remedy, 20; as trauma, 6, 17–18, 25–26; 229 working class autobiography, 14, 24, 25, 40, 49–89 passim, 155, 166n49; in verses, 40, 83–89; of Americanization, 5, 28–29, 61, 98, 104, 109–11, 147, 149, 155, 198n18; of conversion, 28–29, 104–5, 109–11, 170n79; merchant autobiography, 35–37, 61, 133; and memoir, 200n7 Avellino, 124, 177n3 Baccigalupi, Lina, 77, 100 Baily, Samuel, 160n22 Banfield, Edward, 29 Bari, 110, 164n39. See also Puglia Barisciano, 150 Barolini, Helen, 26, 169n71, 200n7 Bartoletti, Efrem, 72 Barzini, Luigi, 33 Basile Green, Rose, 159n19, 167n55, 169n72, 197n12 Bec, Christian, 173n105, 174n107, 108 Bedarida, Lucia, 125 Benevento, 75 Benveniste, Emile, 16 Berdinelli Predelli, Maria, 38, 88 Berschin, Walter, 173n106 Bjorklund, Diane, 15, 22, 24, 128, 162n27 Boelhower, William, 22, 26, 28, 163n32, 166n51, 54, 169n72, 170n78, 173n98, 198n18, 19 Bologna, 19, 83 Bordonaro, Tommaso, 40, 45, 62–63 Boston, 19, 101, 105, 106, 110, 114, 134, 151 Bottiglieri, Maria, 116, 129–30 Bourdieu, Pierre, 27 Bree, Germaine, 199n2, 200n3 Brescia, 113 Buffalo, 107 Calabria, 51, 52, 65, 125 California, 58, 64, 66, 81, 82, 87, 92, 102, 150 Camilletti, Giuseppe, 44, 45 Camp D’Arby, 128 Campobasso, 78 Canelli, 153. See also Piedmont Capra, Frank, 32, 153–54 Carnevali, Emanuel, 82–83, 167n55, Castagnola, Salvatore, 211n73 Catanzaro, 76 Catholicism, 104, 109, 112, 136 Cattarulla, Camilla, 157n4 Cavalleri, Rosa, 23, 116, 118–19, 123 Charlestown, 67 Cherry Mine, 20–21 Chicago, 55, 56, 57, 78, 88, 100, 101, 114, 118, 124, 125, 145 Cianfarra, Camillo, 50 communism, 68, 69, 164n39 230  Index community, sense of, 29, 53, 67, 76, 110, 111, 141, 149 Connecticut, 68, 107, 114 Cordiferro, Riccardo, 77 Corresca, Rocco, 60–63, 65, 157n6 Corsi, Edward, 32, 207n1 Covello, Leonard, 32, 146–47 Covino, William, 28, 170n77 Crimi, Alfred, 90, 97–98 Curtis, Tony, 152 D’Angelo, Pascal, 23, 30, 72–74, 76, 157n6, 167n55, 169n72 D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 151 Daniele, Michele, 19, 34, 135–37, 156, 208n16 Dante Alighieri, 85, 86, 122 De Gasperi, Alcide, 150 De Man, Paul, 161n16 De Piero Antonio, 42, 74 De Russo, Rocco, 77, 90, 98–100 Depression, Federal Emergency Relief , 98 DeSalvo, Louise, 206n86 Di Leo, Calogero, 41, 43, 44, 63–64, 183n76 Don Peppino, 140–41 Don Quixote, 84, 87 Dondero, Carlo, 41, 80–82 Durante, Francesco, 3 Eakin, Paul John, 14 education, 50, 54, 73, 104, 107, 110, 145, 146, 147, 182n62, 211n73 Elbaz, Robert, 14, 162n27 Ellis Island, 21, 51, 73, 74, 80, 114, 135, 207n1 Evans, Elisabeth, 17, 31, 116, 117, 128–29 Fabian, Ann, 24, 168n60 Fabrizi, Oreste, 18, 163n33 fascism, 34, 51, 55, 68, 69, 71, 116, 123, 127, 164n39; and Jews, 35, 120, 121; Littoriali, 55; Fascist spy, 64; ex-Fascist, 62; in Little Italy, 101; anti-Fascism, 122; and Italian consul, 134 Federico, Pio, 44, 57–59 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 169n71 first generation immigrants, 6, 15, 25–26, 168n69, 169n72 Florence, 36, 109, 130, 147. See also Tuscany Florida, 54, 63 Foggia, 152. See also Puglia Follia, La, 76, 77 Fontanella, Luigi, 213n2 Franklin, Benjamin, 6, 28, 31, 32, 49, 62, 82, 140, 145, 146, 150 Franzina, Emilio, 18 Freire, Paulo, 28, 170n75 Fresno, 129 Friuli, 51, 74, 79, 80, 97 Frosinone, 133 Gabaccia, Donna, 184n82, 85, 199n1 Gabor, Tza Tza, 150 Gaja, Giuseppe, 50 Galante, Carmine, 72 Gallo, Fortune, 151–52 Gallo, Patrick, 30, 171n92 Gambera, Giacomo, 113–15 Garbo, Greta, 150 Gardaphé, Fred, 23, 30, 166n49, 51, 167n57, 174n114, 200n9 Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 81, 108, 109, 136 Garofalo, Frank, 72 Index  231 Gatti, Emanuel, 90, 101–2 Giannini, Giovanni, 38 Gilmore, Leigh, 17 Ginzburg, Carlo, 14 Giordano, Paolo, 144 Gioscia, Victor, 32 Giovannitti, Arturo, 142 Giunta, Edvige, 131, 200n7 Gramsci, Antonio, 3, 11, 160n1 grandmother, 26...