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Francesco Durante

Biography

Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante is a journalist as well as Professor of literature at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa as part of the Program in Modern Languages and Culture.

Francesco Durante

Books by Francesco Durante

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
edited by Francesco Durante; Editor of the American Edition, Robert Viscusi - Anthology, Essays, Nonfiction

To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, ITALOAMERICANA brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of classic writings on, about and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience.