13 Apr 2016 6:00 PM. Center for Italian Modern Art. 421 BROOME STREET, 4th floor. New York, NY 10013
Join us for a special evening of conversation around the presentation of a new publication, Gaetano Salvemini: Lettere Americane, 1927-1949 (Donzelli Editore, 2015), with the editor, Renato Camurri, and Professors Romy Golan, Ernest Ialongo, and Stanislao Pugliese. Moderating the evening will be Raffaele Bedarida, a 2013-14 CIMA Fellow.
Gaetano Salvemini: Lettere Americane, 1927-1949 collects previously unpublished letters written by the Italian antifascist historian and political activist Gaetano Salvemini during his years of exile in the United States. Contrary to traditional accounts, which depicted Salveminis exile as a period of isolation dedicated solely to scholarly research, Camurris volume reveals his uninterrupted importance as a public figure. Not only was he active as a teacher and opinion maker at Harvard University and fully integrated into the intellectual community in Cambridge, he also played a central role in the construction of a network of antifascist European intellectuals in the wider United States. Salvemini, therefore, emerges as a model figure of a European exile in America.
