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EDWARD CORSI, Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, in a
series of interviews, will reveal conditions as they are at present at the famous
"gateway to the nation".
H. E. VITTORIO EMANUELE ORLANDO, {ormer Premier of Italy, and one of the Big Four
at the Versailles Peace Conference, will write on th: Depression as observed during his recent visit to
New York.
PROF. WALTE,R BULLOCK writes on the in'luence of feminlne literary groups during the Renaissance
in Italy.
EDOARDO MAROLLA reveals the accompl'shments of Father Maraschi, who founded the University
of San Franclsco almost a century ago.
DINO FERRARI of the New York Times dis:usses the absorbing question of the ltalian-Americans
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ATLANTICA'S OBSERVATORY
TFIE WRITING ON THE WALL?
W i"",T",li; *; J_#i4i?if*
looking to reduction or limitation of
armaments, _[rany were the iltroductory
speeches that were ireard. None
of them, holever, received the thunderous
applause accorded to Dino
Grandi of Italy, ancl, to a lesser extent,
lVlaxirn Litr.inov of Soviet Russia.
This was made the subject of
'' contment in the dail1' press in th,s
cou n tr)'.
But thc "Nation", that liberal weekly
edited by Mr. Villard, u.ent further.
Delving bencatli thc surface in its editorial
conment, it rvondered w-hat this
rneant fur rleruocracl , irr the ft'lloll'inil
rvords:
"It is a deplorable contnterttarg ott
lhe present statc 6l jentocralic ttctlions
Llto,t the best presentaLions ol the case
lm clisarnzam,enL haue been rnade b,y
Lhe represertLatiues oJ cottnt.ries 11ctugrngd
bA dictators. Signor (|ranrJi, for
ILaLy, *,toept away the uhole 'mass' oJ
lormulas anrl petlA tecltnicali(ies
tuhich wrre cluttering ul, !ltc srcne unrl
'put the proposition on the broad basis
oJ justice und fai,r-dealirt11. In substance
and. form and in the ntouirtg
quaLity ol oratoryl his speech,ucs n-?t-
'perp. It contrasted uiuidl,g ui,tlz tlrc
hard,'metal,ltic wh:i,ne ol Tardieu. Lituinou,
tor tlrc Souiet dictatorsltip, uas
no less eJlectiua in a diflerent style.
With unecpected, moderation ol tone
anrl lanEuage he dissectecl the uarious
plans ol playino at disormamcnt and
ra|rnly buL Triti[.essly erpos, d the hgpocrieies
ol th,e d:iff erent gouernments.
"One cannot help uorul.ering if the
preemincnce oJ these litL:o oouernntents
dt tll.is conlerertcr Iras somp ,le r p significancc.
l)o llrp soitorous.,t.oii"citpd;
eloe ttlion(Lry pltr,l itttrl, s n! Sir Jol,n
Simon, lhe t,t,r.lirrp rcr,trtrtrtcndaliotrs
ol the (inite,tl Stcttes, an.rl the medieuttl
proposals of Fronce nt,t (n7 tlLctt d,ent otacS'
is lnr ,tlot.'1 it,. lltr proeest ilJ
[eray/ .0r Ilrqt llttlJ ttrp o),1u it, tlte
rrct ol sloagllin,l ,tJJ !lr, ,,1,1 jcad sA.itt
rnd. ui.ll..ttpJteur It, tL tu u, ttn(J Itri,Jl,ler
coat u'illt the comhtg gernrutiotts? Tlrc
latLer mell be Lhe case, but tlw circ,ulrn_
salnce t.hat the most uital, aontri.buti.ort.s
rnatle so lnr to fhis ronleretre hit,i
been trottt, aountries operating. utujl;t
't rhdn{tt rl urtlr r sr{rl,/. .r/i thaL it is ,,,t
ro tt-ri.flp11r'r $47 the ,rriting oi l!.t
wall."
Whether it is ,'the lvriting on tlc
wal1" or not, wc canliot ignor"e the fact
that in times of crisis sucl,r as the present,
dernocratic governments Ijbor
under trenrendous difficulties, ancl ar.:
cveryrvhere being ar.rxiously exanrinetl
for defects, of rvhich thcre ire rlany.
TARIFFS AND TRADE SLUMPS
E VERY\\rHERE, it seenrs, but in
f'- official circles it is recognized that
when the prcsent administration
at Washington put through its infamous
tariff against the advice of the
$ ./t
\-.'sS4
ST.N
,1.r:i..\-n)
- (.at.rt/ jn ;Le Broatll,n Eali
country's lcading ecouomists, it rnacie
a gravc nristake, a mistake lvhich,
boomerang-like, has novr,' retunred to
a{flict the hapless Hoover adrninistration.
'I'he I)elrartnreut of Comtnerce has
issued a surve-v of the f oreign tarif i
situatiorr fol l(tJ I. describing irr cletail
tlre meastrre. takclr hl ullrei countries
to excludc inrporls cluring the slump.
ll'he steps taken inclucltcl not oniy increases
in intport cluties, but quota
linritations. import restrictions in other
forms, cxchange controls and even
gold embargoes. But what it fails
discrectly to state is that these steirs
were for thc ruost part retaliatory in
i1atllre, and directed against the United
States for its pioneering rvith prohibitive
tariffs.
Startling in its inrpact is thc fact
that the value oI Arrrcricarr ( xlrorts
rlurirrg l93l declirrcd lry no lcs; than
S1.400.000.000 as corrrpared with rlrc
preceding year. This drop oI almost
one and a half billion is of course at,
tributable largely to European retaiiatory
tariff measures. As though this
terrifrc slump were uot enough, the
5urve) s fiudings irrdicate tl,jt ..tlrc
llreasurcs in process and the plans ir.r
prospect i1l the various countries earlv
in 1932 foreslradon' sti1l further coritraction
in international traile cluring
the year ahead, including many markets
of primary interest to Arnericar.t
cxports. "
The surveS.' goes on to say that, in
the opinion of its compiler any change
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in the movenlent torn''ard restricting
trade through import control would
depend mostly on an early solution of
the internatronal financial situation and
on the appearance of indubitable signs
of recovery from dcprcssion.
But, to use the homely old phrase,
isn't this putting the cart before thc
horse ?
TH'E DECLINE OF OUR
LINGUISTIC ISOLATION
Il ECAUSE of the geographical isolff
ation oi United States and
because ^the.. Englislr is rhe language
spoken throughout practically a1i of the
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that Italiarr, as a culturai iarigi:age.
has no peer among the ltodern
languages of the world.
THE WINES OF ITALY
rf HE rvirrrs of Italy, oI course, havc
I been ce,ebraled rrr ,ong and story,
and they are known the world
,-r\-er. It is interestirrg to learn, through
a bulletin of the Istituto Nazionale per
'.'Esportazione of Rome, that Italy
ranks second alltol.lg the largest wine
producing countries of the ."vorld, comrng
second to France and ahead or
:1ain, as thc following figures for
11130 (the latest year for lvhich com-
;,1ere figures are available) shorv:
F:arrce: 12.011.074 hectolitres; Italy:
i!..117 830, and Spain: 16.660.38'1. (A
-reciolitre is equal to 26.12 gallons).
In this connection, Italy's export
::acie in ihis commodity is inportant.
-\'{ost of the exports consist of ordinary
'.'.'rnes (in barrels, deniijohrrs and tank
cars ), rvhicl-r account f or nearly f ouri,tirs
of the total. Of this it is rn-
:.-resting to llote that most of it goes
:r Sriitzerlarrd, ald llre rest to other
aLruntries such as Germany, Austria,
Brazil. the Italian colonies, and even
France.
\\-ith longing eyes, probably, do
Irrance, Italy. an

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THE SOII.\'EIS O/ PETRARAH"
Translated, by Joseph Aws"ander.
!36 p*gq. Neu l'orl:: Lungmons,
Grecn & Co. $2.b0.
f T is as refreshing as it is rare these
f days to come upor a poetical masterpiece
that has been translated, not
by a learned, plodding pedant, but by a
modern poet of the first rank himself,
who is unselfish enough to devote fivc
years of his productive li{e to the translation
of tfi'e complete cycle of sonnets
on Laura which it took Petrarch fifty
years to compose. 'I'his is the first
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*Prohibition at the Crossroads. . . Dominick Latnonica
*The Renaissance of Science in Italy. ,, Prof . Artu,ro Cast.iglion.i ........
*The "Dummy Show". .. AtnL For ...."......... 62
*Messina-Its Artistic Renascence. . . Sante Giouanni D,Arrigo.......... . 65
*The Man Who Came Back.. . JIcLttlzew A. Me\chiorre..............._........ 68
*Remarks on Americanization., . J. R. Scoppa
Selections From the Italian press
Music.. . Ilargherita Tirirtrl,clli
What Readers Think of the New Atlantica
Sports ...........
*The Sad Lover, a short story. .. SiLuio W. RoIa
The Italians in the Un:.ted States ............
Atlantica in Italiano
Atlantica's Observatory
Books in Review
Topics of the Month.. . If,osario lrtgctrgiola
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It was erected by Terone, it is believed,
in the Sixth Century, dedicated
to Hercuies, and was famous in antiquity
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and a pa,nting of Zeus, both nonexistent
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for the restoration of the Greek temples
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TOPICS or rHE MOllTl-l
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW
'Y'l rvas Chief lustice Ta{t who,
f a ie,.' years lreiore his death,
cleclared in strong terms that
the administration of criminal
justice in these United States rvas
plainly a disgrace. The statement
at the tirne created a veritable
furore, but even those rvhcr
thought it someu'hat too severe
never for a moment cloubted its
accuracy.
Norv comes t1-re kidnaping of
Coionel Lindbergl-r's boy ancl
everybody - e\ren the most ca1lous
of hurnan beings - stands
aghast ancl n'onclers whose chikl
it rvi1l be next. Clearly, our system
of law and order has collapsed,
patticularly lvhen the distraught
parents have to appeal to
criminals and racketeers to help
them recover their beloved child.
What l.ras happened to the larv
agencies of the country ancl to
our adn-rinistration o{ criminal
justice? Iloth have failed Colonel
Lindbergh at the crisis.
It is true that kidnapings are
not ne$'. Rut it is also true that
kiclnaping as a systenratic and
sa lc rrcket is of lrut re('ent origirr.
The irnpartial observer rnust recognize
that kiclnapirrg. like most
of the rackets n,hich taint American
Society toclay, is a 1t1.-product
of that vast aucl lucrative racket
rvhich the Volstead Act has foisted
upou the American people.
\\rhat are 1'lre going to do about
it? No one rea1ly knor,vs, for the
causes of the evil go cleeper than
a superficial exanrinatior-r might
ilrclicate. Yet, if exanrples are tc)
be o{ an1' l-relp, iet 1s recall that
Italy too, ur-rtil rer:entiy, hacl her
racketeers. It makes 1ittle difference
that they were ca1le

fTtFIE slang
I erlrression,
"r(l \\-ellSCl'
.: ltilt tfU elegant
're. lrut it is one
r :ri,.h erer.t- Contn.tisslltiln
.linorys
;rrli under stands.
-\: rrplrliecl to the
i er-.r-11i21" process
L si:enringl-v be-
:i:' lroth for and
;,{xinst trnything,
ir hzrs come to be
;i trrill't of the lanrlr.ilge
Of Amerii'lrr
legislation,
.ike "straddling"
,rr' "sitting on the
ience.'' Particulru'ls
has it been
itss,rritlted l ith
-he -subject of
Pr'r-r[ifj1iot , t,he
trrust highly coni.r'ilver.sial
matter
ln -\merican polirir-s
for the past
,lecade.
But even the
' on slllDlltilte slidll
Prohibition ot the
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it-
Crossroods
By Dominick Lomonico
Our Own Prometheus
CON\S\ra${\ON
RO(-\<
, Ft n 7 Ie Yark Herald-Tribr*
r:oulcl uruster the
rnajorrity neer:led
to bring bacli
frorn r:onsider.ation
bv the lronetlry
Jutlicitrr,l-
0omnrittee of thr:
Ilouse, to tJre
House floor. for
lrarliirruenta,ry
action, the Bec'li-
Linthicum propo
sal to modif.r the
l.9th Amcndrnent,
l-hich \\'its t,he
bone of contention.
lluch less
did thr:r. hope to
Irale the t\\'o
thirds ne('essar.)r
to ptrss iit. \\'hat
ther- dicl desire,
trnd lrc'hieveri elen
be1'onrl tr-hai.
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the l3ing'han 4% beer bill, urging
its adopfiop. Prohibrition, it
founcl officially, has increased
the use of hard liquors, reduced.
the consurnption of mild malt
beverages, p,r:omotecl crime and
intoxicatfon, and hur.t t,]re
cause of true terlperance.
It repeated 'what has so
of,t,en been said. in its favor
before : that it l'oultl
employ hunrh'eds of thousanc'ls
r'vho n0\\' give
length to bretrdlinrs, that
it n-ould gire ir substantial
boost to :rgl'icu11-ure,
and that it, n'oulcl also
itcl'eate a tax source rnucit
gretrter tha,n rtn-y other'
single piece of legislation."
-1 f ORtr sisnificirnt, hon'
M is the n'ay it
has rnacle "r"". party leaders
studrl' rvith close attention
the pltrtforurs they are
no\Y prelraring for the
coming elector.al calnpaign.
The traditional po-
Iitit:al leacler is one rrhose ear
is close to the ground., in order
to sense the nrmblings of public
opinion. And it talies no traineil
politician to realize that a
\Yet or liberal plank must be inserted
in the platfomr, otherulise
their canse is lost. li'or the
Itrret tide is one that no King
Canute of a Dr-v leader can
stem, and the l)rys are norv
rapidly losing grounrl. In a
)'ear or so, it nray n'ell be a rotrt.
Irt is not unduly optimistic of
the Wets to d.eclare jubilantiy
that the Novenber elections
rvill retuln far more anti-Prohibitionists
than Prohibitionists.
Straw votes like that of
the ('I"itel'ary Digest" strongly
rindicate that a goodly number
of Dry Congressmen l ill be replacecl
by others rnore nearly representative
of the people's opinions
on Prohibition.
\Vhen the Wets assune the
lead in the House-and it is a
safe assumption that this will
take place after the elections-
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even though they may lach the
two-thirds en4bling them to r.esubmit
the matter to the peoprle,
they will be in a position to refuse
appropriations for enfot'cement,
n hich the 18th Amend-
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The Renqissonce
of Science in ltoly
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Its Signifcaruce in Earopean Ciuilization
'l tlrlel)ts. iu the Italian
universities particularly
-:, the lield of medicine, is clr:r,.
ilrsrrittetl b.v the records that
-,le -rtill to be found, in the nit-
., n's books. ri'hich show t,h:ri,
-i-t luuDs€kn.s fr.equently inter.
-''.:I-r€d. especially on behalf of
-fLe I'e:lulality of anatomical les-
:,tilS,
Thtrt the number of foreign
:,udents of Germanic origin enl,,ller1
n'as in continual increase
is shos'n by the fact that in
l-;--r:i the various na,tional
=irTuulrs represented in the nari,rn.
among \,hom $,ere Swiss,
B,,rhg111uo*, Danes, Flemings
;ind Poles, each electetl a repreentatile
of their own.
The Engiish had from the very
l,eginning sent a great number
, 'f students to stucly at Padua.
Brit to the other Italian nniversities
foreign students also
flc"cked in great numbers. At
Pitvia there already teaches in
I1.i9 for those from the other:
sicle of the mourrtains trilippo
D'Allemagnal in 1484 Oherto, a
ijermanr in the Facultj' of rnedicinel
at Sena the foreigners
irre gathered in a nulnerous
group; at Perugia the "societas
{er'rnAnorum et gallorutntt,
founded irr14L4, acquires, early
in the Cinquecento, the riglrt to
elect the rector ever,y thirrl year.
-\t Rorne the German hospital
By Prof. Arturo Castiglioni
(In two parts: Part two)
t:alled ('S. Spirito in S. Sassia"
is a center n.here foreign physic'
irrns, stutli-,nls anrl ptrtients gather';
:rt Ilologna the foreign nations
pla,.,r a lir.elJ- part in the
nniversity life; and I'errara alsir
enjoys great fame because of her
scientists.
'Ihe irnportance of anatornical
teachring in Italy is so manifesl
ancl rvell-known that it need not
lre gone into it at length. Al-
Iol' me only to recall that Yesalius
tvas a studenti and an instructor
at the University of Padua,
and that only through the
enlightenetl protection of the
Ilepublic n,as he enabled to continue
his studies. \rolcher Coiter,
the Fleming, (1534-1575),
Felice Platter of tsasle (1536-
1614), Gaspare Bauhin (l-570-
L62+), and Pieter Paaw da Amsterdam
(1534 " 1617), \yere
scholars in the Italian universities.
Among the Spanish anatomists,
outstanding rvas Valverde
de Amusco, a pupil of
Realdo Colombo, n'ho publisherl
in 1556 an rrAnatornyt: of his
on'rr in Sparish l'lrich rvas l'idel;'
circulated and becarne one of
the most and studied boolrs of
the Reanissance.
\\rhen one considers that il
Italy the anatornists hatl at
their disposal a quantity of
r:orpses, so that Colombo claimcd
to have exarnined rnore than
ru thousarrrl of them, one cail
casil;- see the le:rsorl I'h1' front
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nll parts of the rvorltl students
converged on the ft:rlitr,n unir-ersities.
I\f O less irru)orlrrrt u cle tlrc
t\ relal iorrs beilr'eerr lta l1'
and the other European
rountries n'ith regarcl to surgery;
this is easy to understancl
ils rl conselluence of the progress
in anatornical st,utlies. Daremberg
in his magnificent IIistory
asserts that surgery in
France r-as taught bv Italians,
nnd it is n'ell to recall in this
connectirtn the rvor.li of Guirlo
(iuidi, :r lflorentine, rr'ho $'as
phvsician to the King of lrr.ance
and n,ho published at P:rr.is in
1544, in the printsholr of pietr,o
(itrutier, that magnificent booli:
"Chirurgi:t e graeco in latinunr
conYersa", rvhich, also fronr the
tl pograp,hica I viel point. br:
cause of the rnagnifcent illustrations
t,hat embetlish it. is
one of the rnost beautiful netlical
boolis pr.inted rlur:ing thc
licrraissance.
In 1587 at Padua there begarr
the teachring of pathology
throug"h the efforts of G. B. cla
n:[onte, ancl as pupils he had \ran
Ileurne and Sc;hrevelius di Leit1a,
n ho later brought their clinical
teachings to Ffoilancl,
ru.here it reacherl its greatest
splendor.
The stucly of the natural
sciences is reborn in a new corrr:eption.
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the lrorli of Anclrea }lattioli, a
Sienese, n-ho collected. in one
rnonurnental booh the fruits of
his long obsen'ations and very
accurate studies. IIis n ork had
an enornous diffusion in all the
countries of Europe, a series of
editions rvere publishecl outsicle
of Ital,1,, anil it constitutetl for'
rrlmost three centuries the classic
text on pharmacology. No
Iess profound n-as the influence
exerted by the tr.orh of Ulisse
Aldrovandi, a Rolognese, head
pitysician and instructor in zoo-
Iogical and botanical studies,
who founcled the botanical gardens
and the museum of natural
history in Bologna, and that of
Andrea Cesalpino, n hom I"inneo
considered the first to lay dourn
the solid bases for the stuily of
botany, ancl of lr-hom Nordenshejoeld
rvrites that his system
is the flrst foundecl essentially
on comparative morphologic:rl
examination.
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Ir, as we hrve seen. during all
^ of the Cinqueeento, foleign
students flockecl to Italy from
all parts of Burope, no less interesting
i,s the worh of the It'
alians rvho were called to, foreign
countries to practice their
profession and ,to teach in the
universities. To cite a fet' among
the most illustrious: Gio'
vanni Manardi u'as for many
years physician to the King of
Ilungary; Luigi Marliani, of
Milan, was consultant to Maximilian
II and to Charles V;
Giulio Alessandrini, of Trento,
rvas physician to the Emperor
Ir'erclinand I, to Maximilian I I
and to Rudolph II l Prospero
Borgarucci, a native of Canziano
near Gubbio, was for a
long time at the French Court;
Leonardo Bottalio, of Asti, n'as
physician to King llenry III of
If rance I Giovanni Argentero,
born at 'Castelnuovo in Piedrnont
jn -l 513, n'as for more than
five years a physic'ian at Lyons
ancl there achieved great fame.
Ilaolo l{inuzio, of whom Tira-
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boschi speahs considerably, also
practired there for a long time.
Gabriello l'rascati of Briescla
n.as ctrlled to the Court of Philip
II, Krins of Spain, about 1580.
Apollonio )Ienabeno, philosopher
and p,hysiciztn of l{ilarr,
Iearned in natural history anrl
cultivator of Latin poetry, n'as
physician to the King of
Su'itzerland, John III, and
publishecl in 1581 a treatise corrcerning
the ebb and flon, of the
tr':rters trround Siochirolnr.
'fivo illustrious Italian physicians
practiced rnedicine in Poland:
one rvas Antonio Gazio,
rvho had been a student at Padua,
and the others'as Jacopr-r
Irerclinancli of Bari, u'ho w:ls
c:riled to Poland, became physician
to Sigismund II, ancl published
in Cracow inL542 a treatise
on the preservation fronr
plagues. At the same Court
there lived about 1574 Nicoto
Buccella of Padua called as
physician by King Stephen ancl
rvho died there in 1610.
flr, after this rapid exarnina-
I tion of the culbural relations
bet'ween Italy and the other
countries of Europe in the Renirissance
n'e seeh to examine
what happens in t,he Seicen'tor
the era in rvhjch experimentai
science asserts itself definitivel_v,
we find that in this era of
grave political and econom'ic situations
for trtaly, and no less
for Germany, desolated by fiery
religious wars, France, Ilolland
and England begin to rise to
their greatest heights. trYe note
in this period how the exchange
of ideas and hnowledge bet;ween
Italy ancl the other eountries.
althongh less extensive than
during the Renaissance, still is
hept very much aiive. Marcello
l{alpighi, creator of the modern
anatomy of plants, presents his
studies before the London Royal
Society I Flarvey, after har'ing
studied at Padua with Fabrizio
D'Aequapendente, mahes
linoryn the r:esults of his studies
almost simultaneously in lflanders
anrl in Ital;', in England
and in Gerrnan-v; Nicolot Stenone,
a Dane, and a r.ery diligeni
student in the Unir,ersity of
Piszr; Olaf Rudbeck a Swede,
cornpletes his nrost important
stndies in the University of Pad.ua.
Adlriano Spigelio of Brussels
studied at P:rdu.a, n'here he
rvas listed in the roster of the
(ieman natiion, arrcl rvhere he
taught anatorny from 1618 to
1624. Ot.,her instructors of foreign
bilth in Ital;,' n'ere Giovanni
\\resling ancl Giovanrli
Giorgio lVirsung, both anatomists
of great fame. The anatom;'
that has its great develpment
in Elolland trnd in France
still has its point of departure
in the Italian schools, and trhe
neo-Efippocratism nhich in the
Dnglish school of Syd.enham
reaches its most noted point in
this ,century shon s evidence of
the reiations between the great
Nordic schools and those of
Italy.
nO \* C tr R NI\G these,inter.na-
V tional lelations, rvhich can
be said to have been born in
Italy, it is important to rnention
one of it,s most important fac,tors,
the foundation of scientific
acidemies. The .(Accarlemia
dei L'incei", founded irr
Rome by Prince Irederico Cesi,
had foreign scientists among its
first and most noted members,
among them Giovanni Ecchio.
It is these academies that are
rapidly founded in the Italian
cities, in Germany, trngland
France, the centers of scientific
research, at a 'tirne n'hen there
is to be noted a decadence of the
universities, inflexible in their
doctrinaire forms. They represent
a very important stage in
the history of the spread of
scientific thought hecause although
the academies belong at
first to that closed organism
that is the republic of the learned,
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- -, --,irs trr plofession, and be-
--r itrer aclopted as the 1an-
- . ,1,: uf use the national
- r-*'.1*. especiali;' in Italy, they
i r -i ir gleal step forward on
--: .,i-irr to the popularization.
- :rl-ure. Little by little the
:- :..':eniies. for just this reason,
:r'":e*:,l in importance the uni-
":r':.ries. which ,continue to
r .illrril themseh'es narrowl.v
': .he conser'vers of the ancient
,: rr*litions.
Ti,r\r ard the enrl of the Sei-
,, rl-riio there appear the flrst
s -c111iflg journals, of which the
".T 'r,u'nal des Savants" sees the
'rhr irt Paris in 1675 : but it is
rl eresting to note t,hat the first
;,,'tririca1 journal, the ('Gazette
i* France", is created by a phy-
.ilian. Teofrasto Renaudot, who
-s celtainly no less the able
j"nrnzrlist than he is the genial
rx'girnizer of nelfare institutes
:i-'I' the poor. AncI the relations
r.,err-een Italy ancl France ber:r.rme
such that three years after
.he appear:ance of the French
s,-'ientific journal there begins
l,ublication, through the I'orli
,-'f the abbot l'rancesco Nazat'i,
tr't'ofessor at liome, the ('Giorna.
ie c'lei Letterati", and in 1672
the '(Giornale Yeneto dei [.etter'arti't
of l{orettti, which frecluenlh'reported.
news ancl notes from
rhe French journal.
If we seek to sum up briefly
the result of our observations,
ri-e will r:each the conirlttsion
that the scientific Renaissa.rrt:e.
and particularly that of merrlicine
and the natural sciences,
has its beginning in Italy, contemporaneously
with the Renaissance
in art and for the
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sirrne reasons, that is, the con
ditions of the environrnent, and
the political arrd socjtrl fact,s irr'
voh'ed; and it has the sante
character:istics, that is, the for''
niation of individualism, the return
to the study of the classics,
anrl the passionate love o{
nature.
llhe Italian scientific Renaissance
of the Cinquecento marlis
the beginning of a serlies of cuitural
currents from Italy to all
tire countries of Europe. This
intellectual movement is deter'mineil
b.v the traditions of thr:
Italian schools, by the liberty ot
instruetion, by the rvealth of the
collection existing in Italy, bylhe
,systematizatjon of anatom'
ical teachings, b.y the use of the
Latin tongue as the scientifir
language, an.d linzLlly by the
great scientific actii'tities of the
Italian printshops.
'l'he center of these cultural
relations resides in the finst period
in the Italian universities,
rvhence floch students from ali
par.ts of Europe; in the exchange
of instructors and physicians
among the various unirersities
ancl Courts. In tlrc
second period, tor'ard the beg^inning
of the Seicento r,i.ith ile
clacadence of the Italian univer'si,ties,
the academies assume t,his
{unction; then with the rise of
sr:ientiflc journal the exchangtr
of' cultural relations becomes
nore and more intense.
I,l must renernber that the
Italian schools of the Renaissance,
and Padua iin particular,
are the forges of the scientific
movement of the Renaissance,
s.hether it be in the field
of the biological studies or in
that of the experimental studies.
At Paclua is concentratetl all of
",w
ITALY 61
the intc.rnational s ci en ti fi c
nroveurerrt, and it, is there that
all the rnost noted men of Europe
stud;', from Yesalius to
\rorstio, from Copernicus to
Halvey. In the Italian school.
through a witle mor-ement, the
fundamental program of l'hiclt
Leonardo had expressed in thtt
r.ords : tt'lo littotr, how to see",
anrl r'hiclr Galileo had concluclerl
l.ith Lhe sa1'-ing: ((Natirre is
rvrittcn in matlientatical let"
ters", the scientiflc Ilenaissance
has its beginning. Irrom this
great movement tou-ard, truth
lncl freed.orn in stud.-v, an esthetic
and histortical moYement
compar:er1 u.ith the rerolutionary
ancl iconoclastic one of Lutheran
Gernan_v, studies in
every par:t of Europe drarv their'
beginnings or strength. The
spirit or the tratlition of the Itrrl,irn
sc.hools lives irgain in EIolland
ancl in England, in France
ancl in Germany, ancl rvhen, irt
the Seicento, the political power
of Italy marhs a period oi'
decadence and the great French,
Dutch and English schools, and
later the German, reaoh a flour.
ishing point. intellectual relations
with the Italian schools
are maintained.
Thus dn the fleld of the spreatl
of scientiflc ideas I'taly of the
I-ieruissance played a part of the
highest import,ance. Dominated
in large part by foreigners, shc
remained. dominant in the
,schools, and there she welcomed
fraternally students from all
parts of the n orld. 'I'hus she understood
and explainecl the idea
that science does not recognize
bounclaries and that,the concept
of humanity assigning man his
place in the cosmos and fixing
his laws, sta.nds above and be-
1'ond the limits of space anrl
time' (Th.e et'rd.)

((
The "Dummy Show"
ll. \:OIr rrean the
rlrunmy show !" reply
t}e urchins of New
\-orli's I ittle I,talI frorn rvhom
1'ou hirve inquiretl the n'ay to
the tuitt'iotrette theatre. And
cven ill yott folltlw theil' tiirec:-
1ions .vou irre liliely to pass the
rrrt-rdest, tlool of Signor tr{anteo's
little 1rlit1'house. It is no hetter
lighterl tltittr atry of tlte neighlroring
gr'ocery stores or pastry
shops, irrrl, although the theatre
has lterett itr the same location
fur thret: \-ears, tltere is no narne
orr its n?lrro\\i non-cornmit'tal
['ront.
T h e t'(' ztre llo ticliets, of
(iourse. Signortr l{anteo accepts
1'our tluirt'ter in shy silence, and
1-ou trtllic \-our rila,Y to one of
the stil'f l'ood.en seats in the
Irtrrretr l ir'less hall. Norvhere
perhalrs il the realrrr of the Anrerican
theatre is there less concern
l ith the rrrechanics of
plity:loirrg irlt,l ntol'e of the traditional
slri r'it of the ancient
theatre.
The rrretr in the autlience-son}etir)les
tltere are no w0men
irt all-nr e for the ntost Part
r nitldlt'-n getl worliingrnen. What
)'orlng lrlen iu'e tirere al'e lihely
to n'ear t'ir1n and to lieep thelrr
on all tlrrrilg the performance"
'I'here is not a i.ratent leather
liead irr tlit-' t'r'owtl. Many of
these spct'tir.tols are illiterate,
lrut thtr- ll:tYe come long distauces
:t lter it harrl tlal"s lvork
to revel itr the c.eniurY-oltl
thritls oI tlrt-r'(()t'lantlo Ilurioso"
c.r'cle.
'I'his tn-eltieth centurY New
Yorli lrttlience attettds the shorv
Italian Marionettes in I'{ew York
By Ann, Fox
irr the spirit of the Sicilian rnarionette
aucliences of Columbus'
day. 'Ihese quiet-r'oicetl men
htrve corue to enjoy an episode
tuf :r stor.1' that the;' lirros' arrd
that their' lathcrs ioved. TheS'
treat the performance with the
comfortirltle camaracleries of an
old friend. They smoke, drink
pop, eat peanuts and fruit, and
drop ashes, bottles, shucks and
skins orr thc floor. And. the
second the r:ttt'titiin goes lrp thc)stop
talhing.
'loward the cerrter of the
little lrrrt'li drop str:ides a tall
hnight ir shining armor. The
rnost irnaginative hig'h-school
freshnan to n'hom ttll'anhoett
has just opetred up the lialeicloscopic
ronance of the (lrusades
never envisionetl a more glamorous
hero th:rn the gold.en knight
orr tlre iittle stage. L dazzling
and chivalrous flgure he is ln
his intricately n'orhed coat of
rnil,il, su-orrl in his right hand,
shieltl in his left, a vari-colored
lrlume flonring fron the crest of
his torvering hehnet.
6lUl)l)l'l\1,\ rr Iittle sheep
D-mtI rirrltles lraclrstage, the
signal for the pianirst out front
t o stop playing. Grandiloquentl.v
thc burnished. hnight
begins to spetrlr. As the sonolous
ctilerr

5'-trlir: str'ectator is likely to cle-
:,rn'i- for identification on the
":.i'"riki-ng gestures of the marioni
rtls- \\-hicherer knight is
"-l;ins smite,s his shield, shakes
;:s :lirtering head, and takes a
: rii step for'war'il. It is evidenr
:: '::.1 rhe rehemence of the smit-
_r g atnr-1 shaking thar all is not
" *i] wirh the Christian host.
irrl,r the tense scene limps a
-:;ur' shr'ilking figure. Elis is
" , - ;he heroic uroulcl of the ma-
-.! -'' rrrr_r.nlielons before rvhom
r i iiilDrls stutterrng. This ri-
,. - -rilt'uslf inarticulate little
, r ri. rlrr'e is the comic relief, of
. -r'se. FIe is a common soldier.
T:r: rlrrlience began to laugh
; ": rrrinute he set. uncertain foot
rr rhe stage. But ruhat he
- ;.1Ixages t0 stutter before he is
r h;skerl an-ay thron,s Charle-
'-;1sne's shining heroes into
-unking iits anil stomping prorssirrll
ilto the x,ings.
TiLe pianist oub front resumes
:.s plaring, but the curtain is
r,'. lowered. An imaginative
..ridience needs neither entre
:,:te curtain nor ingenious
l;ghting effects. The young
rrl.r]r,r of a deus ex machina
: Eilf h tlown oYer the drop
:n'i rr-aft it overhead. Nimble
r 'rlrls flngers turn bacli tlrop
afier drop until one appropriate
i, rr the next scene comes to
-ighr. This must be the Sarr"cL)
r'ailllr. The 0trrint-rtts r't'e-
:,'tnr flaunts above the barbaric
'rlrr€d tents lihe a pagarl new
Irrrrrrn. It is the Saracen camp,
fr-ir a graYe row of trousered
trnenries of Christianitv flles bef,'r'e
the drop.
T)RUBABL\- no phase of Sit
guor )lanteo's versaLiliLy is
more fascinating than his por'tr'il1dl
of Saracen types. AII the
tlhr'istian faces he has made
handsome in a sans peur sans
l'elrroche fashion. But each pagan
face is hauntingly characrelfu].
The Moors are black
irnrl polyerful, the Tarttr,r.s yeltr,rn-
and crafty, but no two ot
THE "DU\{i\[Y SHOW''
them are gir.en the same expression
of countenance. There is
one pallid moustachetl oriental
potentate in the Moslem horcle
$Iho, for dignity and an air of
rtrce, rnight be the Kubla Kltan
]rimself. Signor tr{anteo shades
th,is character's lines with lestraint
and authorit"y and delivers
them in a voice reniniscent
of Mei Lan l-ang's.
The council of the infirier
chiefs is less solemn than orre
has a right to expect from so
dignifietl looking a conclare.
One of the characters raises a
high shrer,vish voice in headtossing
protest against something
or other. Yes, 'ir.ouldn't
you know it? There are $ omen
warriors among the Saracens as
there are among the Christians.
Ariosto's story, be it remembered.,
trea"ts the L'r'usacles not as a
beau gest.e, as does the '(Chanson
de Iloland," or as tr spiritual
cluest as c1o the Arthurian legends,
but as a bacl

(r-l
usual thirrg for the hero of the
evening to lav lott- it dozen ttar'
liors irr srvift procession, lear'ing
tht,rrr pilerl lrip-cleelt in i,
brtrss itnd t'elr-et ttrc,ss on the
-\t:t g-e.
D I,.li ll.\ I'S l Irile tlre tield of
l' ('iu'nilx-e is lreirrg t'lelt'ctl
lotr tlecicle to shake off the d,eafcrring
s1rell of the crusades by tt
rratter'-of-fat't r,isit back of the
s('crles. \'ou push asid"e the
ilru'ro\\- curttrin to the left of the
stage irntl find -l ourself conf'r'onted
b1' three glittering rorvs
of trnrrt'rl krrights rarrgetl on the
thr"ee rrya ilirble sicles of the
r'oor1. Ilrte nnd thcre in the
lrhalarrx ill'e luoked irrra,.1. lovely
Iortg-hirit'r.rl litrlies itltri (1er'emollrorrslr-
r'estrnented ecclesiitstics,
the tnrsting charge s of the
I r ri stlirr g solclier'-v.
Ilnt. rrll at oncc the latter
seern tri hrrt'e shed their horrendous
aspect. 'I'hey are no longer
giant-,r. 'lhey are only marioncttes
irlrout ihree feet high. ft
is :r gt'ittluuted series of drops
that gives tlrese P; gmies therr
ep,ic 'heiglr1.
If this bil of stagecraft increa.ses
\'oul' r'espect for Signor
lfanteo. close irrspecl,ion of the
rrra,r'ioltt,ltcs ittrd the rvorli of
lrrot1 trtitru l ill rlrarrge .\'olll' l'('spect
to u'ottder and to admirai
ion f ot' tlre llanteo farnily.
Surelr sotrt' of these nobl,Y tlesignerl
itnll r'lelicatelv ernb'ossed
suits of tnrtil deserve to be mu-
.seunr pieces, rnllch as it n'ould
crnbrtrass Siglor }fanreo to hear
citlrer'his hrnditvorli or his
i heatlec:t'it ft chara.cteriz,ed as
irrt. it is Signora Jfanteo tt'htr
fashious tlrc tlttsttttnes of tlte
llclies itttrl other turannorerl
r:haractet's itnd ihe fabric garrnents
o 1' tirtl tt'ai'r'iorts elrscntble's.
'l'lte efflect of her
neerllen'orli is luxttrious indeett'
l'or sltt' r'olrrhines velvets, brocntles
illt(l g,olt1 crubroid.er-v ln
A:I'I,AN]]ICA, APRIL, 1932
,Along the back they stand in a mattial row." !d
rich color st hentes attcl intricate
patterns.
Your risit ba.clistage allocates
for you the unconcerned hancis
that reucltecl clon-lt to change
the bar'li th'o1r or to adjust zl
knightll' head or' :r jammed
sword. 'I'he hands belong to the
hanclsonte young marionette
rnanipul.ators, the Signor's sons.
Ele has four of them, slight of
build., but pol'erful enough to
tnanage 135 lb. urarionettes
rvith vigor and hutnor'. The hosp,itable
)'onng lad,y I'ho ans\Yers
all your questions is the Signor's
tlaughter. She reads the
fenale loles. The gravelY
courteorts Jove rvho is rnuclr too
busy reatling and rlireeting to
lrrswer qtestions is Signor'
]'[anteo.
0n l-atching tlie Performarce
from the front -Yoll hacl occasional
gliutltses of expressive
hand.s that gesticulated out of
the nittgs in cataclysrnic mornents.
Thosc l'ere the Signorts
talenterl ltatrds, helping him to
tear a pitssion to tatters anrl to
rags. l{e rea,ds his Parts sc}
s-vmpathetit'ali.v that his blue
eyes fulurinrrte l'ith feeling arrcl
the sn-elt r'olls frotn his earnest'
face utrtl tttttple bod.v. Yet he t'.an
tletach hituse'lf ft'tttrt tlte mosl,
)righ-1rott'crerl of his hnightl"v
outbursts to signal the 'correction
of a marionette gesture or
frorvn disap,proval of his daughter's
reading. The house of
Nlanteo, marh you, has been
producing rtrarionette shows for
eighty -vears, first in Italy, later
in the Argentine, and for eight
years in Nerv Yorli.
As you edge Your \\'aY out of
the narron' wing bach to the
smohy irall you rnust be careful
not to distrnct the attention ot
the au'clience from the stage'
These patrons of one of the ordest
forns of tlramatic art are
not slorv to snarl a sharP Latm
rebulie at any source of distraction.
They tolerate onlY those
outsiders who attend as respecrfully
as they d.o.
Illiterate they rnaY be, but
not uncultured, these butchers
and bahers and . candlestlck
mahers n ho ignore the cinema
and strip-teasing burlestlue lor
,the romantic atlyentures of an
eig-hth centut'-v n-arrior hero.
Who hnorvs but these dummYshow
tladitionalists al'e the
spiritual, if not the lineal descenclants
of the trandit chief
who released Ario'sto on discovering
that his caPtive was
the author of "Ollanclo Furiosott?
1

Messino !ts Artistic
.1.: :' , :rncient that they are
- .: il t1.re iegencls o{ the
. Ircuples of rvidely differ-
-iilir. sr-rcceeded one another
. :i.t,,rr'. ancl ail left traces
=:: civilization.
-: ::ie seconcl hali oi the 6i-
':::,1.-- ..i1t1111-. holve\ref, the city
: : ,oast oi bcing a famous
: ',r:: ui l'run'ranist culture ancl
'
= i-il.ipiace of great and glori-
-.- :..:i>ts. such as Antonello cla
:::-rtii. trilippo .ftiv:rra, t-hc,
.= -rclare

66
strain on the structure, the entire
reinforced concrete cage of which
is regarded as a great pil1ar set
firm1y in the ground, is less if the
moving mass is reduced in height.
The third problem, the architectural
one, proved complex. Messina
u.as a historical site r'vhich
commanded the highest respect
and rn'-hich her future development
must necessarily keep in mind. In
harmony r,vith her climate, her co-
1or, her happy lights, Messina required
buildings with spacious entrances,
rvide and open stairways,
terraces, and balconies.
But, on the other hand, the artist's
personaiity lvould naturally
be influenced by his professional
environment and by the new tendencies
rvl.rich architecture took
after the "eclectic" epoch. Hor,vever,
in this period o{ troubled
search for the nerv, the architects
could not abandon themselves
blindly, especially not to the foreign
experimental tendencies
u'hich were not ah,vays suitable to
regions like southern ltaly.
f N other rvords, the new city of
f Nlessina has iollowed only in
some \\'ays the newest ideas
in architecture, so that her buildings
have been completed in a
style which is affected only in
rvise moderation by modern influences.
Thus there is rationalism
in her architecture, but not
under that strict form in which
all ornamentation is renounced. A
sane and beautiful balance has
has been obtained by accepting
the modern simplicity and combining
it u'ith the traditional
characteristics.
Messina has many of these
buildings, but I shall limit myself
to only one, lvhich represents the
synthesis o{ the best artistic tendencies
of the city: That is the
"Palazzo di Giustizia," considered
by noted critics as one of the
best in the worlci. In it the architect
Piacentini conceived of an
architecture truly rational in reference
to beauty of form, puritY
o{ style, and simplicity of line. It
is a well baiancecl creation standing
in a spacious square in serene
and solemn majesty. It is reallY
a temple of justice which sYmbolizes
the calm serenity of a sage.
In the interior of this marvelous
creation errery court room, with
its mystic apse and its effect of
simple and austere solemnitY,
fsrms a divine temPle. It is a
new an

' .::...f. alld the white
- ' : :hr beautifui lvin-
: . :.::iltd one oI laces
': -... :', hands, the rvealttr
. . -::--: h,-,rizontal bands
" . : r:r:,' rhe sides of the
' - .-r-r:i\'. the artistic la-
. -.- "'. rth their rich oval
: i:::iriii portil which
- i: :-, rrom a dfeam-
' - ,- .. ln.rired suci-r tleauty
: _ :. -if terl to a plane
"-: r- r:r,le to icel the subl-
. t:r inc l
.- it ,rnce stood. It is
- :iccrr(1. It n'i1l oper-
:. .- 'i a clock-like mech,
\I - .,llr (llters the churclr
l ! i - irr pres.ed by the
- .:.-iic appcararrce of the
r: . l'hc constructicln, ar-
:: :,::., -''' slre aking, is in the
- . :- I-:,tin cross ; the r:entral
,'-:::. iarger ancl more spa-
.. - .....-: -,he laterai ones, is di\.-
:r-'ir colonn:ides, the first
'.,,.:-,:ch are oi tnal'b1e with
- : -:.:i, granite u,ith clelicate
. :..- -ihe palement is made
: . --" :,its oi colorecl marbie
--:.a., il geornetric ltgures, the
:.: i- lraintecl in rich ancl fan-
-,. ' :'i,iiarrt colors o{ marrtel-
- ::iI,,n_\'. 'l'he rr'alls o{ tl-re
:: :-::\ r lrrcak that unitv rvhich
,: ', irar-e heen obtaincci"if a ra-
.- .olution had been sought.
. , :-rcr- hetr.ilder us someu.hat.
, ,.-rn,,:t inrmediatell' rve arc
.'.1rrrri br- thc po\\'cr of tlre
:. lr-r- the state1l. ricl'rness of
.: r'tr' :rttrl tli.l,, 'siti, )n ' 'i th(
.-:-. l')'the nrarry colors altci the
.:::--alrle, charnr rii thc various
- ,:. ,rf tl-re light rvhich inurr-
:: iirc ytenuurbrn.
' ::--r't1'rir-rg to the snr:Lllcst cle-
, l-:.. been placecl $'ith extremc
, taste. The atmosphere this
--:.i-: helps us {eel the srveet
', - nr-stic n-relod1' of the statel,r'
::.:i ii-hich is norv onc of tht
,-: in the l-orld.
,:-. the niosaics of the :rpse thc
' ;:ling saints and kings are lost
their rlreanr oi hunrilitv. If
:.t i. struck fir. the tecirrrical
' :r'.\' ;il1(l cx,trri*ite artistic scrrs

TheMqn Who Come Bock
Gtannini Regains Corutrol of Transarnerica
((l .ha1l d,r mv lerel best for
f tlre stockholders. hut I am
neither a miracle man nor
a superman and I am relYing uoor-r
ih" continuous co-oPeratton
unA ""tt.tu=iasric suPPort o{ the
stockholders ancl {riends ol
ftutt.u-"tica and our splendid institution."
With this staterrent'
Arnedeo P. Giannini a{ter a
strenuous and h ard -f ou ght
.ituggf., recently acknorvleclged
the ?iusi of thousands of shareholclers,
many of them ltaliarrs'
in sweeping him back into thc
chairmaushiP of the huge Transanrerica
CorPoration.
Elisha Walker, tlie \\ra11 Street
banker rvho assumecl Giannini's
oo.itio" in control oi the instilui;""
"p"" the retirement o[ the
latter, r,vas the loser in a fight
for control that attracted the atiention
of the entire country ancl
stockholders in more than twentY
foreign countries'
The result brings out of retire-
*.*-and Places again into .the
financial field the son ot an ltallalr
immigrant who rose from Pov-
.ttu t'" a cotntnan

F
: - ::::ci!a1 and 1no-qt
:-::i r:s ancl does not
. *.:. '-,pportunity to
. .:::-e1r'es regarding
::.= --- sale. lnerger of
.. . a:-,i no assurance
-- : gether remain in
' . -. institutions."
l. ' .'tu'een the Gian-
- ',-'-:.lker groups be-
:1t: and larger and
::. an open break
,: i, ,,i ,\merica, with
- :lre. in Ne',1' York,
''. ith t1-re National
.ta1 u-as announced
: '.::se d that the direct-
. :. .. ::::e;tt of Transamerrca
- .:.:-, its pledges to him
.- - =:::ed. and indicated he
:-:.r:.: the field to regain
- .ire company he
, :..:-- ,iganized mass meet-
: :.. - r::er stockholders' gatha.
::-:r,ughout the country,
' -: =.'ial emphasis on the
' - .- -,ast. rvhere live the
:..-,' - i the stockholders, in
:,.::: :: to consolidate feeling
"-..:: '- :1.e group headed 1ry
: -.: -,,'"'a1ker-
MESSINA -
: -;iicious fragrance o{ the
--.,--j- and lemon blossoms, one
, , . i.l.red bv the soft balmy sea
::-is and the rhl.thmic dashing
: - :..,'a\-es as regular as the pul-
:.r uf the heart beat.
-- r. also of great interest to re-
.:re ancient citv of Savoca,
- : -,-i.d on a high rock ',vhich
- ... rlajestically above the rivie-
. ,: Sarfia Teresa di Riva. It
'.:: at ancient castle from tvhich
: can enjoy a splendid panora-
::... and has also many magnifi-
-.:. churches, rich in interesting
' -:ks oi art. The church of St-.
, ::.i of Agro is a priceless rvork
- a.:t. constructed of fantastic
- .:',,-hrome stone in the golden
.J;,-ri cl.raracteristic Siciliin ar-
- l-i:ectr-ire.
- -,:though the present city of
- --irra has rrnrlergone an inevit-
,.' -. displacement {rom its origin-
.-. r,:an. it alu,a)'s remains in the
- :-rr of an amphitheatre around
-:. iarnous port. It is laid out ac-
THII IIAN \Vl:TO CAMIi IIACK
The fight which ensued be-
1\\-eelr tlre Ciarrnini an,l \\-alker
factions took on the colorful
trapoings of a political campaign.
E,acl'r group torrrecl the country
hurling accusations at the other.
Each acctisation ltrought a rlenial
and a counter-accusation.
The charges made bv Giannini,
as reported in "Tirne" (Feb. 15,
1932), containecl among them :
The steaclr- clecline of TTiiisamerica
ancl t1.re stopping of the
clividend.
The abanclonlrent of tl-re
branch-balrking progran-r.
The unu,arrantecl disposal oi
the Bank o{ America of Nerv
York.
Sacrifice of procluctir.e assets at
bargain prices at private sales.
The raising of salaries, ancl extravagant
expense account. . . employment
of many unnecessary
high salariecl officials.
Tf HESE charges \\'ere ans\\.er-
I erl irr kind hy the tlren rnanagement
of the Transamerica
Corporation. As the time
neared for the stockholders' meeting
at Wilmington, on Feb. 15,
7932, interest in tl-re battle f or
control of Transamerica had
ITS ARTISTIC RENASCENCE
(CorttirulecJ Jront, Page 67)
cording to the modern conception
of urban construction, with-long
avenues !,hot enjoy a peaceful
vietv of the sea. The long and
r'vide Via Garibaldi is verv biautiful,
as is also the interesting "Passeggiata
cle1la Marina", which
makes possible an enjoyment of
the treauties of the port and
Strait o{ N{essinii..
But the most beautiful and the
r.nost interesting of all is the
splendid "Strada della Circonval-
Lazione" rvhich, hugging the
nrountainside with picturesque
turns, leads towards the highest
tops of the Peloritani mountains.
These i,vinding roads can be covered
in a short time with an autornobile.
But lor those rvho t-ish
to enjoy the scenery it is suggestecl
that they go by slower means
o{ travel. It is only in this rvay
that the beauties of the town are
revealed, beauties rvhich increase
rvith eacl-r step.
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reacheci a peak unsur-passed ir.r
corporate history.
That the Giannini charges
struck home can be seen rvhen,
in lh" spectacular battle of
pr_oxies, i.5.371.528 c.,lrt of " po._
sihle. l-t.15J.9J0 tnppled Etisha
rr atker lrorrr tlre clrairmanslrio
arrd irrstalle,l -\merleo n C;r""i";
to his fornrer position.
-It is a nra t 1 er ni opin iorr
u,hether Transanrerica *iii ,.._
gain.the position it once had, a
I)os1t1on u'l-riclr car riecl r,r.ith it
asser.s of S1.100.000.000. At prei_
ent. its assets. like thosc of ,;;;;
corporatiolr.
il:ll.r
lrar.e rfr"_,r;
ed i the_v no\\- lotal approximateil.
$300000.000. Tlre tlir.-"r.r'."i-Jr
Lrtannlilt ts a hrrge one; others
than he u.oul

Remarks on Americanization
By J. R. SCOPPA
Principal, P. S. 92, the Bronx, N' Y'
OO o{ten Americanizatior.r
movements have failed bea
cattsc thev rvere l;ased olt
the supposition that all foreign
elements in our populatton are 1nicrior
to the ola native stock'
Programs of r'velfare and educationil
organizations have beerr
practicallrr {utile. Much time,
ef tort an

mumrsfrderabll- since 19i3. For exounmpil,e"
tftre United States has inamnlred
it= expenditures 197 per
:rer:: _iapan. 142 per cent; Great
*-=ir- {2 per cent; France 30
;cs' crrr: Ital-v. {l per cent, and
R.:a-

HE lteparations Confelence
u,ill be lield in June, follot'ing
an agreement reached
by the govelnments interested.
"1'he object of the Con-
{erence", says a dispatcl-r of the
Ste{ani Nervs Bureau, "u'i11 be to
come to an a€lreement regarding
zi lasting settlement of the question
raised in the report of the
llasle experts and ('ollcerning
lvays and means of overcoming
the economic and financial di{ficulties
lvhich have brought about
and rvhich may prolong the present
rn'orlcl clepression."
This decision taken by the gol'ernments
should be rvelcomed
for tu'o reasons: first oi all because
the Conference, u'hich at
first seemed to have ireen postponed
sine die, u'i1l be heici on a
fixed date; and in the seconcl
piace, because it proposes a "last-
REPARATIONS
(From an editorial in "ll Legionario" of Rome)
HE l{on. Satr-ruel Dickstein,
Congressman fronr Nerv
York State, has srrbn-rittecl
to that body a bill aiming
at the exclusion of foreign artists
from American "talliies".
American movies for the Auterican
!
And norv there is beirtg raisccl
at Hollyu'ood that oclious banner,
jingoistic ancl chauvinistic, rvhich
rvas un{urled not long ago for
some time in Nes' \'lork against
foreign artists of the stage, an

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rm rrle"uu- and the most fruitful {rom
llr'e 6--..n,'.mic_
tr-alenrino. Chaplin, Arliss, Garr',-,--hrvaiier.
-[annings and so
nnnsrnn ,i,ithers orve to America their
iiflr'miert succrsses; but on the other
ln-r'm' fl- the]- har-e contributecl in
lam"g'e p,art to the gigantic dem'eful
i,ment. to the victories and
rhe w-ealth of this flourishing Am*er-lran
industry.
[mL th.r rreld of the theatre, as in
r\i,e{Fr alaistic fie1d, there has al_
wa"rs bern a great international
.exocft,a:ge oi "stars", and this excftmmgr
has s1;iritually and econo-
ITALY AND FRANCE
ooo
(From an editorial by ,Concetto Pettinato in "La
$ta'npa" of Turin)
Htr article publishecl not
long ago in the "Tem,ps" of
Paris has been follorvecl bv
quite a fer,v others of th!
:urmt character, r.l'hich have app'ear-rd
in papers of ltoth the Left
L:,r the Right. For the first time
;i::ce the War, a certain unanim-
,l"r 5s6111. to be alrout to establish
rtsrl: in France concer-ning the
::,r-.-enience o1 5llirsging Frar-rcoirulian
amity {rom - among the
i.:Ir: -
ooo
-\lr,trrt-faces that are too suclden
al-!\a_\-s leerl to perplexity. 'l-rue
it i: that, on the surface, this par-
:icular about-face may l;e explainc1:
b1- the change in pilot at the
'-'uai d'Orsar'. On second examilation.
holrlr.er, this explanation
,i.-,ts not holil goocl. I-aval ha,"
t'cen dictating Frencl.r fore;gir po1-
r\_r uuL srrlce Ille t)eglnnlng c)I f
icr- not since the lteginni
lij3l. btrt irorrr tlre l,ecirruirrg of
l!'31. Berthelot, r,vlro, as e\reryone
knows, l'as the soul of I-aval's
predecessors. has not ruor-erl
lrom his throue. r\ ci-range in lrersons,
therefore, \\,e l-rar.e not had
rnically given nerv life to every
unclertaking; it has lecl to the rapid
dei'elopment of the arts in all
countries, especialiv in the younger-
natic-rns.
'l-cr put up barriers to this excl"range
n,oulcl be an unpardonaltle
rnistake and learl to certain harn
\\,-e are glacl, there{ore, to report
that the Anrerican press has alrercly
begun to manifest its hostilitv
to the l)ickstein project, just
as, in its time, it u'as hostile to-,zrnd
wrecked- the proposals against
the sigrrir-rg up of stage artists
rvho l.cre not American citizens.
Why shoulcl there be a change in
po1ic1'?
ooo
'lhe present shift is a matter of
zut improvisation, ancl not a
slorr.ly maturing policy. Sorne
ohesrvers naturally suggest that
tlie secret of this suclclen lvarrnth
can be founcl in the rn.orry instilled
in France by the clisarmament
c, )li Ierence. This snpl,usition is
rr't 1111liLa1t, l)11t to nre it seems
ttro re:trit'tir c. trIotc irtrportant
:rre the rvorries occasionecl by the
rli[ficult-r' of re-estahli-hing' a prelr'ar
Jlntente rvith Great Britain.
l'he rise to power o{ the Tories,
on rvhom France hacl placed such
great hopes, has in this respect,
bern a bitter clelusion.
F-rance nou, is a victirn of a bizarre
r.icious circle: the stronger
she becomes tire rveaker Anglo-
Fre nch frienclship becomes, ancl
the rveaker Anglo-F'rench frienclship
becomes, the rveaker F-rance
fee1s. Paradoxically, one rnigl-rt
aln'rost say that to lte strong,
France should be weak, at least,
n,eak enough not to cast her shailon
or.er E-ngian11.
73
The tariff barriers against the
proclucts of soil or industry-.
which lrls, r har c u r,,rrght inialculable
clamage cannot be blind-
1y appliecl to art anrl artists, without
mortally uroun

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that on the continJnt there shall
be no more groups of interests organized
in exclusion of others.
The era of constellations is finished,
or, to put it better, the duty of
everv great people is in applying
itseif to rvhat has been finished"
As regards Italy, she rn'ould be
rlcing scmething of doubtfui
rvorth in abandoning her presentday
libertv of movement in order,
as the oracles of the Parisian
l)ress seem to imply, to take her
HE conilict betrveen China
and Japan has Put the
United States in an em-
barassing position. The
ATLANTICA, APRIL,1932
place in the system of French Europe,
taking on herself the enormous
burden of defending an order
o{ things that leiks on all sides,
and u'hich France herself now no
ionger knor'vs hor.v to uphold
against the natural destiny of all
decaving things.
The subject of Franco-Italian
frienclship, rvhen once it expands
outside of the compass of the
good relations based on neighborliness
and business (which are deooo
WHAT ABCUT SOMALILAND?
(From an editorial by Marco Pomilio in "L'Azione
Coloniale" of Rome)
RULY, lve speak too littte Furthermore,. having Ior - the
of Somaliland in the daily time being territories not endowand
periodical press ot ed with the best attributes of fer-
Italy. On those rare oc- tility and prosperity does- not at
casions lviren the pen of the co- all mean, in substance, that our
lonial or pseuclo-colonial rvriter solid, traditional virtues as colonturns
to it, it is usually to beat izers should not find a yay o!
down t',vo three obviols paths' digging forth commercial and
that have already been traversed marketable values out of the
and re-traversei hundreds of many thousands of square kilotimes.
meters now in our possession in
x< * * Airica. To do this, it is necessary
It is saicl : rve have the worse to begin by knowing exactly all
African territories. Very true, that can be'done and all that can
this, when one thinks of the mag- be drawn from our colonies, frorn
nificent attributes given to t[e all our colonies rvithout distincmandates
ancl the -territories of tion. Today there is much talk
other nations in comparisoh to our going on about Tripolitania; it is
rights, keener today than yester- just that this should be so, for it
AJy, ;,-, the Black iontinenl. is the land in which Fascism has
Americans are f ollorving lvith
keen eyes the events in the Far
East, where they have vital Political
and economic interests to
safeguard. Since the JaPanese
advance began, they have entertained
trro contrasting sentiments:
on one hand, the desire to
keep out o{ the trouble and not to
let it precipitate them into a general
imbroglio by some false
move, ancl on the other, the firm
clesire to contain within reason-
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AMERICA AND THE ORIENT
(From an article in "Il Mattino" of Naples by its
New York correspondent.)
able limits the expansionist aims
of Japanese imperialism.
The Americans want to keeP
out of the Manchurian confiict,
they want to keeP out of anY
r'voild war that may follow the
breaking of international treaties'
But while {heir determination is
firm to keep the peace and to hold
themselves aloof from the clash
of Oriental peoples, they are finding
themselves, against their will,
immersed up to their necks in the
Asiatic imbroglio. America cannot
withdraw from the field of action
or decline any responsibilty
rvitl-rout going back on its own
siretl antl desiralrle alwaYs and
n'ith everyone), implies the premise
of a rvide revision o{ the
French foreign policy, which is today
too dangerous for Peace becartse
it is too much in contrast
with the necessity for a haruronious
and eqluable adjustment on
the continent. Is France PreParec1
for such revision? It does not
seem as yet that the rePlY to this
cluestion is rvhat it ought to be'
giveu the most organic and
iorverful example of its colonizing
uirtu". and caPabilities. It is'
however, also true that manY
people spbak of it because it is
1".., to do so, considering that
what has been done offers a large
amount of material for comment
and appraisal, some of rvhich has
ended up by being-we cannot
avoid the ugly rvord-standardized.
Conclusion: besides TriPolitania,
the press should occuPY itsel{
exhaustively, r,vith clear and
especially interesting treatm.ents,
also with the other colonies, in all
their economic asPects.
In the meanwhile, as to that
which most directlY regards us,
we intend to begin in the verY
near future to iliustrate, as exhaustively
as possibie, the various
possibilities which Somaliland
-offers to men of good rvill.
treaties, rvithout contrilluting toward
destroYing the \-ery organization
she created so as not to be
involved in future wars.
The Nine-Power TreatY, which
suarantees the territorial and adininistrative
integrity ot China, is
a treaty promoted bY America,
and America did not live uP to it
'"vhen she failed to invoke it against
lapan, who had violated it'
itr" .u-i applies to the Kellogg
Pact. But the Hoover Administration
did somethrng worse: bY
letting Japan know that America
would keep out of the conflict, not
only did she give JaPan a free
hand, but she cut off the waY for
active intervention bY the League
of Nations, thus weakening beforehand
any possible action on
its part.

M{JSIC
By Morgherito Tirindelli
RESPIGHI'S "MARIA
EGIZIACA" PREMIERED
rf HE edvrrrt of Ottorirro Respighi
I and Bernardirro Molinari and the
^ revival of Bellirri's "sounambula"
have eclipsecl the importance of ali
other events during thc last six weeks.
Of these, the production oi Respighi's
"Maria Egiziaca" \vas perhaps the
n-Lost auspicious. f'his new r','ork of
the Maestro lvas given r''ith the aid of
the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
and soloists, first {or the pension fund
concert and secondly as a part of the
rcgular Philharmonic subscription conccrts.
"Maria Egiziaca" is subtitled
\,Iystery Triptych for concert," and the
composer asks his listetrers to "hear
and r'vatch siniply, credulousll', iike the
faithful pcople n'ho assist at a mystery
or a religious procession." In a personal
talk with the rvriter, the composer
sairl tlrat irr rlris rvork he tried to
bridge the gap between opera and concert,
rvhile more broadil' speaking he
has successfulll' created a work which
belongs in its drarnatic form to the
l)ure, simple mystery plays of the
\,f iddle Ages, rvhile employing thc
rnodern musical idiom.
The importance of Respigl'ri as a
composer rnacle the performance on
Nlarch 17 a significant one and a large
and represcntative audience was at
hand to bccorne acquainted n'ith this
next to iast u'ork of the musician who
also conceived the "Pines of Rorne"
and the "Sunken Bell".
T1're picturesqueuess of the performance
added to its ir.rterest. The stagc
at Carnegie Ha1l had a superimposed
platform to the right of t'hich a small
errchestra supl'licd llte accotttpanimettt
and syrnpbouic illustration for the personages
who saug aud acted the mystery
1n three episodes, connected with
orcl.restral interludcs. At the rear ol
the platform there rvas a golden trtptych
u'ith tlvo closcd doors swung
open, after ar-r interlude, by a pair or
angels, The inside of thc triptych revealed
three pictures set side by side
in the golde n {tame: the harbor of
Alexandria, a desert beyoud the Jorclan
and the cloor of the Tcmple ot
Jerusalem. 'llhe auditoriunr was kcpt
in darkness, illumination cetrtering on
the perfornrance. There t'as a chorus
of nixed voices.
Briefly, the libretto exposes the sius
of Mary of Egypt, her repentance and
expiation. 'I.'l're composer was confronted
rn'ith the difficu1ty of mixing
his music lr'ith the style of his subject'
a f act 'lvhich he bridged del'tly, producing
music of feeling aud al'w'ays of
masterful rvorkmanship. He rvas also
expert in clepicting the character of
rlysticism ancl religious fervor with
both draura and passiou; meiodY
abounds ancl the r,vriting is fluent es-
pecially in the vocal 1ine. 'I'he u.ork
opens up possibilities ancl lvhether or
not these are ever carried into being,
the fa.ct remains that Respighi has of -
fered an original solution to the routine
of concert and opera which is grorving
obviously uniuterestir.rg.
ma", but nonetheless ef fective. Miss
Pons and Mr. Gigli sl-rared in a demonstration
vrhich they truly deserved,
for. neither artist has been heard to
better aclvantage.
O
COMMENTS OF MUSICAL
INTEREST
f he participants were Charlotte
Boerner as Maria, Nelson Eddy as the
Abbot and Pilgrim, Alfredo Tedesco as
the Sailor and Leper,, Hclen Gleason
as the Mate, Blind Woman and Angel's
Voice ancl Myrtle Leonard as Anotlrer
Matc and Beggar.
o
,LA SONNAMBULA''
FTER an absence of sixteen Years
from the Metropolitan OPera
stage, Vincenzo tsellini's "La
Sonnambula" was revived for the parabourrdiug
iu rttelo,ll'. I
Evcryone knon's Lr1' tlris time tlrat /G\
rhe 1'lot of "sonnanrbula" revolves / \
arourrd rlre supposcd urrfaithfu.luess_ of t ffit:* ) stnrn cESTER GARDINI
Arrrina, due to lier sounanrbulistic ha- \ W ; I -
r-r H L, nrost itt:portallt recent all-
I nouncenlettt h"a.on'" frortl the
r' boarrl of Llre Philharrrtonic Symphony
concerts to the effect that Toscaniui
will return on April 28 to concluct
one colcert for tl-re benefit of the
unenrployecl rnusicians of Amertca.
o
It is run-rorecl that Ifolinari will rcturn
this sunrllter to conduct on the
Pacific Coast.
o
Respighi has returtrecl to Italy to resurne
his classes at Sauta Cecilia ancl
to begin work on a "choral orchestral
symphony for tl-reatrical performance,"
for which he will have the collaboration
of D'Annunzio otr the libretto,
rvhich rvi11 be cal1ec1 "La Vergine e la
C itta'."
o
Giuseppe cle Luca has been nomiuated
for Grand Officer of the Crown of
Italy by the King.
o
Ottorino Respighi and Pizzetti have
been nominated as nrembers o{ the
Royal Acaclemy of Ita11'.
e
Rose Teutoui, artist pupil of Enrico
Rosati, replaced Charlotte Boeruer it-t
a recital of R espighi n-rusic given ai
the Casa Italiana by 11t. Dante Alighicri
Society, u'hen the latter artlst
was unable to participatc clue to i1!ness'
Miss Tentoni possesses a voice of tlatrrral
lreauty att,l Porver.
o
Many dinner, receptions aud soirees
r'vere given during the Respighi sojourn
in New York, outstanding being those
of Berta Gerster Gardini, X'Iaria Carreras
and Mrs. Liolel Perera.
O
Irma Aivano, artist pupil of lvladame
Carreras, was hearcl in a recital at
'Iown Hal1 rluring }larch and displayed
a fine technical development. An,
other talent under tl-re guidance ot
ticular interprctation of Lily Pons as Madame Carreras is Glarrco D'Attili'
ten-year-old child rvonder rvho was
Amina and Gigli as Elvino. The trvo
recently heard in a private audition at
artist coui

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.,E"HAT READERS THINK
OF TFIE NE\T ATLANTICA
::. ---1. ietrers that we have received concerning the new feat-
::: :.::.. in the March issue. Herewith we reproduce a few.
' -:_: ajtttca:
:.,: \Iarch number of
- , :.., i: s'ith great inter-
,-..: '. a.:r interesting num-
-::::. aD1\- edited and ad-
-'. - I see no reason rvhy
- : - :t.rr be in the honre
: ;.:..r-reading Italian who
, , :::at irr preserving and
: ::: .l:tural traditions the
: :::- Eenuine contributior]
. _ :nelr acoptlotl.
-- _.rdia1lt,,
EDWARD CORSI
_...- aj Jnmtigra.tiort,
- i.: I;lartd, N. Y
;-LtIanlica:
:::--a has norv become a
:,-a:ion; arrd as a cultural
': i sal that it is devoted
'::: ,tCl cauSe.
],,'u 1]'11/ Congratulations
l.::.
'i'cr1' truJy yours,
JOHN J. FRESCHI
:, .rt of (]one ' rLt Nl,"s orzr,
-\-r u' I"orl Cr,lrr
, -::'- :r pubblicare nel numero
-.:::i 8th) del mio giornale
r : :: t-liicago) la mia mode-
:.. ::'. orclinc alla sua pubbli-
- --- i.r:ica", che tanto contri-
- -:--r:tdcre f italianita' in A-
.. creJrrru pirr' corrr.cnicrrtc
:.-- -.:to giudizio anziche' co-
::- ..:1ettera. Corr r-nigliori au-
, . . .':-ui.
Devmo-
OSCAR DURANT'E
Chir:a ,t
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:,:,1o Board ol Edttctttion).
: :::- I' con piacere che Atlan-
. :::ieressante rivista bilingue
: ? nLrye anni rappresenta un
' .. :,;l ir l irr quc,ti paesi, seguc
. .r i1rrp1',r rrtaggiore c risport-
: .:::cI.tc al ilobile :copo il]]-
, : ,tirantare fra gli italo-arle-
.-, i t iLtarlini di alrre rraziorra-
;:iisto riconoscinento dc11a
::: ::a1ica attraverso i secoli.
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: re live da questa partc clel-
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:= :: :lie cultural inheritances of
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Yours ver-v tru'y,
PETER SAMMARTINO
CoLIege oJ the City oJ Neu 1'orl;,
'l'o th,e EdiLor oJ Atkm,tica:
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\\iith regards, I anr
Sincerell.
Prof. DOM1ENICO VITTORINI
(|nit,ersit11 oJ Pennsyluani.a,
Philatlelphia, Pa.
To th.e Editar oJ Atlantica'.
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New York, PLrb-ltc Libraru
1'o the Editot' oj Atl,antica'.
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new subscriber. irom thq rising
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A rnagazine rvith a definite ntissiott.
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the noble traditions of his Fathers and
Nfothcrs can evcr come to suprelnacy
of an-v va1ue.
Cordially yours,
P1ETER CAMPON
Binglmmton, N. Y.
To the Editor oJ Atlantica:
Ab.out two ]'ears ago, a copy of
AtlzLntica calne by chance into
rny hands. It interested rne because,
having relatiorrs irr many ways r'vith
Italians and Arnericans of Itaiian origrn,
it seerned to me to contain al uuusual
variet-v of l.ell selected informa.
tion both iu E,nglish and Italian particularly
rvell suited to both trtalians
ar-rd to those intercsted in Italian ianguage,
litcrature, history, fiue arts, politics,
and, especial11.-, the clail-v happen-
:,ng both in t1-ris country aucl in Italy
that are noteworthl'.
The fact that this magazinc has gone
on successfull-v for nine years is proof
in itself tirat it appeals to a goodly
trumber of reaclers rvho appreciate the
material it contair.rs.
X[oreover tlrc revicri' is progressive
and abreast of .tirnes, r,r.ith an
eJe c\rer to improvement" The \{arch
1932 number, for instance, is notcworthy
in this respect, the r.runrber of
outstancling contriltutions being noticeable
as are also the ir.rnovations and
irnprovernents. Although particularly
rvcll applied to our I1alo-Arlerican
constituency, thcre is at the same time
nruch that cannot fail to be of interest
ancl of value to the general reader. To
all such Atlarrtica ; may be. cordially
and unreservedly recornrnendecl.
JAMES GEDDES
(.'lL'nrcn Dept. of R.on'tctrtcz l.anguailt-s
B o.s t on (.i n i t, er s it tJ
To th.e Editol oJ Atlaruticct'
A *,ord about Atiantica. lhe
getteral make-rrp {t]'pc. fornrat, l)rler)
r: good. \\-itlr 1'our irrterrtiorr ro continue
"Atlantica in Italiar.ro" I thoroughly
disagrec. It means nothiug but
an unrlecessary outlay of money. Sonte
of the articles ]'ou use are ligl-rt, anci
by light I mean that they are not
nreatv enough, amateurish (e. g. 'I'ile
(irorr tlL of Italian irr Arnerica). Your
"Selections from the Italian Press" are
rrot and tlierr irrulevarrl.
In closing, of course, I do .r,vish to
cxpress to you nty heartfelt good
n-ishes for your eclitorial success. And.
if I rrray be oI any service lo you.
please do not hesitate to call on me"
Sincerely yours,
A. MARINONI
Uniuersity of Arkansas
Fauetteu,ille, Ark.
'l'o lhe Editor ol At,lanti,ca:
I rcccive and carefully peruse l,rour
rcvr'er'". Atlantica, and I nust say I am
r, r,r' sali=fied rr ith it> reccrrf jmIroverrrents,
befitting the further dcveloprrrent
oi thc nragazile.
tr'ery trtLl.y yours
BENIAMINO. GIGLI

SPORTS
CUCCINELLO TRADED TO
BROOKLYN
.f N the most imuortant deal of
L the spring bascball Perior[.
Ernest Lombardi, Babe Herman
and Wally Gilbert of the
Brooklyn club lvere traded to
Cincinnati for Anthony Cuccinello,
Joe Stripp ancl ClYde Sukeforth.
The tracle brings to the Blooklyn
Robins one of the most PoPular
Italian ball players in the
majors, and at thc same time
sencls to Cincinnati another ltalian,
r,vho, in his first year of major
league baseball, bicls fair to reacl
the heights.
Tony Cuccinello, a native of
Long Island City, has made rapid
strides in reaching the top o{
the baseball world. A tyPical
product of the numerous sandlots
scattered throughout the countrY,
Cuccinello first broke into organized
baseball with the Syracuse
nine of the International League.
This was followed by brief aPpearances
rvith Lar'vrence, L)atrville.
and Columbus. In 1930 Cuccinello
signecl up rvith thc Cincinnati
Reds as an infielder.
The first year with Cincinnati
found "Chick", as he is familiarly
called, in a utility role. Last year
the Astoria Italian lvas a fixture
at second base and batted fo,r a
percentage of .318.
Ernest Lombardi, husky catcher,
alternated at the BrooklYn
backstop position last year. But
the chances are that Cincinnati
r,vill use him as a regular. Lombarcli's
batting ayerage last vear,
his lirst in the majors, u'as slight-
1y under the .300 mark.
Before playing in a Brooklyn
uniform Lombardi \vas a member
o{ the Oakland nine of the Pacific
Coast League.
ITALY SELECTS OLYMPIC
FENCERS
LWAYS a strong contencler
in the Olympic fencing
matches Italy has already
selectecl tl-rose rvho rvill compete
under her colors at Los Angeles
this sr:mmer. Seventeen {encers
have lreen selected fronr the large
fie1d o{ contenders. 'jlhese rneu
har e comntenced a rigorous tt'airring
period under the sharp eyes
o{ a man rvho is considered the
greatest fencer alive - nonc other
than Nedo Nadi.
Tony Cuccinello,
now at Znd, base lor Broolilan.
Nedo Nadi is rememberecl bY
American followers of the flashing
foils for his masterful exhibitions
in this country in 1930. His
skill and grace while executing
his most famous stroke -
"the
advance thrust" (a stroke
rvhich fer'v fencers dare attempt)
brought exclamations of wonderment
from his American alldiences.
Holder of five OlymPic championships,
Nacli is expectecl to
produce a number of finalists in
the coming Olympics from the
young men now in training under
him"
The men selected are: For the
epee-George Chivacci, Leghorn ;
Gioacchino Guaregna, \{ilan; Gustavo
Nlarz,i, Leghorn; Giorgio
Pessina, Ron-re, ancl Ugo Pignoti,
Milan.
For the sworcl-Carlo Agostini,
Nlilan; Gian Cornaggia, Nlilan;
Renzo \{iloni, Nlilan; Alfrecl Pezzana,
Vercelli; Sar.erio Ragno,
Venice, and Franco Riccardi, Nfi-
1an.
78
]:-or the sal;re-Renato Abselmi,,
Naples; Arturo cle Vecchi
Naples; Giulio Ganclirri' Rome:
Guitavo Marzt, Leghorn; Ugo
Pignotti, Florence, ancl Emiiio
Sulafio, Palermo.
ITALIANS TRIUMPH IN
GOLDEN GLOVES
NE {ourth of the youths who
took part in the finals of the
Golden Gloves A ur atelt r
Boxing Tournament recentlY at
the NIaclison Scluare Garclen in
Nelv York were o{ Italian clescent.
Of these eight boxers, four
rvon the championships of their
respective classes.
Louis Salica took the Il2potrnd
open class title rvhile Vincent
De Lucia u'ou the diadem
of the same weight in the sub-uovice
class. Peter Caracciola u'as
crowned 126-pouncl open class
champion.
Thomas Pontccorro, a high
school student, r'vas the individual
star of the evening, rvhen he
scored two knockouts to be
crownecl titleholder 6t ttte hear-1-weight
sub-novice class.
Olhers rvho fought in the finali
r'vere: N{ickey Falabella, Phil Ra
gozzino, Stephen Doria and RalPl
Nf agrino.
BATTALINO WHIPS RAN
/-rR ISTOPH ER Battalino, oncr
U callecl a "ch.ecse chamPion"
astounded the boxing frater
nity with a smashing victorY.ove
the Polish welterrveight cham
pion - llddie Ran - recentlY il
New York City.
The former featherrveight title
holder spotted Ran eight pound
and then proceeded to give hir
a sound thrashing. 'lhis victor
now places the Hartford Italia:
in an enviable spot. Bouts wit
T on y Canzoneri, lightweigh
champion, and Jackie Fields, rn'e.
terrveight chanrpion. are norv i
the offing. Battalino seems in
fair way to emulate Canzoneri lt
acquiring three ring titles.
OLYMPIC ATHLETES
FETED
T\ RIOR to their departure ft
Y Italy, n-rembers o{ the Italia
Winter Oiympic Squad r,ver
the guest of Gr. Uff. Generos
(Contittued, on Page 80)

slh,
dftt
tcrr
st' d
hrfo
n dnifim
&to
: ll3l\f,-rmideim
rb-oo-
I U:r$
das$
hiefr
siduaf
:n he
.r) be
FnqI-
Gn ls
fil Ra-
Ralph
RAN
! onct
ploD ,
:raterr
ovef
cham-
Ltly in
: titleounds
e him
ictor-l'
italian
; with
reight
;, n'elow
in
sina
eri bv
DS
re for
ltalian
I were
leroso
fu wro,,r..ris the court room was
-.hrntmm. irf.-, a pandemonium.
Jkrpre :;;hed l-ildlv torvard the
kfteuudm:mt and carried him off on
dhmun sfoc,,rilders: it t,as evident
dhf,uf rfth* .i-erdict had rnet with po_
;cdtlinm frau *r-
F r '-,a-rs _John penrlleton hacl
rcltm :m rial for the nrurder of
utur nrmme- It had been a long, te_
dri{''m{m+ a.imd =ensationai trial, "The
igpnmm&s[ Eoment in the trial had
m,umrtr mhen the accused was call_
'ilfldli ruw*im r. tell his story.
'Ji,eforn Pendleton, iake the
$meum[ i' b,cromed his lawver,s
' :rrrl-aad suddenly an onrinous
*:r+r,re :ell upon the court roont.
\ls he settled dou,n in the wit_
rue."sns - cc,,air- countless gioating
rmrhji qtc"nverged in his clirectron
n,r'andl **:*.ned him eagerly. There
rffi&s rien- little in him of that ro-
'nnxrm]f aura rvhich people otterr
,lc*mrumatc x-ith crimes of passion:
b --** a short, stout nran in his
.aclr ::,-ies. partly bald, rvith a
Tsnlqm+&- lLtless expresslolr on nls
1rurfr
Sfie r,,ld his story in a simple,
l|rtlrtumrt }.-a\-. seldom raising ttre
p.xmrcJm .: his voice.
*I bred her. I did all I couid
flL.u ilra^ke her happy. She meant
f 'trri-:,rll1o tO me. WOfk tvas a
jrr.r!q[: tD \-ork, make money, for
rhrr" sr that she could get' the
ufrmmg-s she rvanteci most and live
,u-,.*,re-free. luxurious life : nothing
dse riattered to me. To spenE
T j i-. spent for her, at h.r altar:
-lta: il'as m1- lile's suprcme airn.
ill mrer- nne dar'. . . ."
H. .topp.i, with a sigh. 'lhe
m,:,e-ds no\\- came to himless easrily-
h tvas apparent that he r,vas
smuggling hard to controi his enm'ld'ns.
Spectators craned their
merks and strained their ears. The
ir;arratir-e had reachecl a climax.
Fenileton brushed his hand over
The Sqd Lover
-{s soon as the fore-
;ran of the jury finished
A SHORT STORY
By Silvio V/. Rolo
his foreheacl and brought it dor.vn
quickly across his eyes, as if t

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sible that tl-ris rvas the uran urhom
her husbancl, John Penclleton,
nearly killecl and for rvhose love
the first Mrs. Penclleton had met
her cleath ? She \\ras astonishecl.
but saicl nothing. Fate is very
queer and truth certainly stranger
than fiction," she only sa1(t t()
herseli-and n'ent horne.
But NIrs. Pendleton san, the sad
lover again. She rvas intensely'
interesteci in him : his tall stooping
figure, his pale l'ranclsome face,
the kinrlly. penetratillg gdze 'i
his thoughtful eyes, the melancholy
smile on his 1ips. the tragrc
story of his life : sotnehorv, there
was something about the m'an
u,l.rich X,Irs. Pendlctot-r could not
Borks in Revtew
(ContinuerL lron Page 54)
It is somervhat painful for an Italian
or one well acquairrted rl,ith Ilaly today
to read the book, but for tl.rose intcrested
in the appealing idea of trampitrg
through ltaly on foot, and u'ho t'ant
to see how John Gibbons tlid it and
lr'hat he saw, it might prove I'ortlr
u'hile, for, after all, it is reaclable and
entertaining, if nothing else.
AN ITAI'IAN ANTIIOLOGY. Ed.ited
by Florence Trail . 208 pages. lJo.stln'.
Richartl G. Badrter, The Gor-
Jzant Press. fi2.
rfr H O L'C H nrodest itt a1'pcaratlce
I rhis "Italian Anthology". translala
ed irrto English by variotts autltors
and collected by Florence Trail,
contains sone 200 poems selected fronr
the r'vide range o{ Italian literature tl.rat
*lil1 appeal to all rvho have an itlterest
in that subject. Sonnets, folk-songs,
hynns, fablcs, proverbs anci lyrics: the
fielc1 is rviclc ar-rcl varicgated. A large
number of thern are tran:1atecl bv the
conpiler, but aurong the translai6-rs famoLrs
nanrcs arc not lacking, such as
Byron, Chaucer, Longfellorv, ShakespeareJ
Shelley, and a l.iost of ot1'rers.
As for the authors, thc book covers a1l
the famous ones, and il-rarly not so r,vellkttorvn.
An index of autl.rors and onc
of translators facilitates the u-sc o{ thc
volurnc, which is a useful addition to
:u.ry Italo-An-rerican's librarv.
Sports
(ConLhtuetl Jronr Pacie 78)
Pope at a banquet given at the
Biltmore Hotei in New York
Citl'.
I'Iayor James J. Walker, r,vho
rvitnessed the efforts of the Italian
athletes at Lake Placid, made
a short talk in r'hich he praised
A'I LANTICA, APRIL, T932
r.er)' n ell explain and--r.es, coulcl
not resist.
(iradua11v, inexplicably, their
long rvalks and friendly talks lecl
tliern to tlie sad lover's apartment.
"Li{e is goocl," he rvhispered to
l-rer as he removed her hat. "Believe
me, f never thought I coulcl
be so happy again^" She srnilecl.
The dusky shaclorvs soon began
to creep in ancl slorvly hicl them
from sight: they two alone,
mouth to month, until love's
srveet passion possessecl the I,vornan
and her lovelv clark eves
fluttered. . . .
I3ut John Penclleton had learnecl
the habit o{ r,r,atching his
rvives. Somehorv, he pickecl up
the trail and-suclclenll'. l itl.rot-tt
highly the perfortnances turned
in by the representatives of Italy.
Gr. l-lff. Pope {oilorved ri,ith a ta11i
on tl-re forrvarcl steps taken b1'
the Italian immigrants during t1-re
past 25 years.
Others u-ho addressed the largc
gathering were Judge Freschi.
Vice-Consul Serafini, Count Rossi
r1e I,Iontelela. ancl G. Rivetti.
PECORA BREAKS RECORD
IT,TURNING to track competition
after an absence of
tr:r.o years, I'[ike Pecpra stlrprised
evelr his rnost rabid f o1lon -
er,q rvitir a record-breaking performance
in the one mile u,alk
event cluring the National A. A.
Il. championship me et al tl-re
flad:son Scluare Garden recently.
'1.'he r-etcran rvalker, carrying
the colors of the Brooklyn Centrai
Y. l,t. C. A., broke the tape
yards ahead of his irearLst colrpetitor
in setting a new recorrl of
6:27.2. 'I'he olcl mark of 6:28 n'as
created by George Goirlding in
1911.
ITALIAN ROWING TRIALS
AT LAKE ALBANO
AKE '\I-IiAt\O, near Ronre.
has l>een selected as the
scene of the Pre-Olympic
rou,ing tests next June, according
to an announcement n-rade by tl're
Italian Olr'nrpic Committee.
The iake is located deep in the
crater of an exinct volcano and
its rvaters are alr'r'ays calm, mak-
n'arning-l;1ys1 into the roout.
terrible in his anger. The sad
loirer looked at the tn'loman, lookecl
at the mau ancl shudclered : l.re
saw in Penrlieton's hanci a small
shining thing s'hich he hazilrrecailecl
lraving seen beiore. In
a flash, he understood er-erything.
But he quickll- recor,ered his presence
of minci.
"Shoot !" ire cried. "Shoot !
I3ut this time people t'i1l laugh at
yor1. Once. lres, but trvice-ah.
that rvoulcl be too sillv !" There
rva.s bitter. stinging clefiance in
his n'olr.ls.
.[ohn Penclleton cliciu't sl.roc.rt. Hr
krr'vered his hand, shor.ed the gun
into his pocket and cluickly shr-rfflcrl
out o{ the roor.rr.
ing an e-rcellent
competition.
spot {or r6lvlng
M. A. M.
Atlonlico's Observot. ry
(Conti:rrued Jron Puge 53)
two u-ho1e false cities of Paris, tc
be lighted while the real city 'rvouicl br
in darkness.
Born in F-lorence 54 1'ears ago, -Iacopozzi
bcgan as an electrician ar.rcl first
attracted n'orlcl noticc rvith his farnou:
illurnination of thc Eiffel Torver. Latel
his artistic f1oot1-lighting illun-riratet
sevcral of the outstanditrg tnouumetrt:
in Paris. On a trip to New Yorl
oncc, Jacopozzi san' Broadn'ay's uigh
lights, and though he agrecd they u'ert
striking, they rvere also, hc thougl-rt
"bruta1".
CATHOLiC ITALY
t r O colllll.ry itt thc rr orltl is 1,roL
l\ rl,lu as c,rtirelv ( arlrolic iri reli
l- \ girir a. Ital1,-a vieu c,,ttfirtttrt
lrv the results of the last ltalian gen
cial ccnsus. cousicierccl Jr-orn the reli
gious ang1c.
'- \,fiianlsecortcl to ltorlle in popula
tion-is a gooci exatl-tplc. Because o
iti lnclustr;ai charactei and geographi'
por,:ition, it should be the city most.er
i,osed to LIrc irrfiltration rvliiclr rrrigl'
i,rilu lilrout a dirtrinution in the tra
clitioial religious sentirleut of the Ii
alians.
In spitc of this, 975,819 of tire 992,tli
rrrrc.tiotterl reporr tlrey bclorrg to rll'
( atlro';c feith, witlt tlre J( \\s llun)l'(r
ing 6.753, or 064 per ceut. oi the popu
laiion.'lhe Protestants'are fcwer
6333, or' only 0.63 per ccrrt of the po
pulation.
In'iirortant inc1eec1, therefore, !\'i'r
the Laterarr 'l'rcaties u''hich three year
ago official'y put an eud to difference
betr','cerr tire Vaticar-r and the Quirina'
and rvhich have just been scaled tr" '.ii
f ormal visit of Pren'rier I'Iussolini t,
His Holiness Pope Pius I.
D. l

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The ltotians in theUnited Sares
I :;;e:r -i:e Invited to Send in Items and Photographs of Real Worth for Possible IJse in These Columns.)
. _-: -iLO DEI GIOVANI
: :::IGEPORT. CONN.
SOCIETIES
:'i\ ui -\liss ( l;rra
- - f)ei Giovani rvill
.-..::.: aiiairs of nrajor
- ::ltCrilz(' StCtanellr
::. orr "Darrte Ali-
::...-:rrili is ar.r Italiarr
- . :. artrl drarrrat ist oI
.. - deparlnletrt utr-
:. -::=ctiotr of Barca Tar-
-. : -:: La\"alleria Rustiea-
: : \-trga, in u,hich Miss
:-:::r,., and Mr. Clernen-
. :a\e respcctively the
...:,-:- and Turirldu. The
- :,.,:L jr.r is April first in
: tlrc first alllll\-er-
: 1,, Ilei Giovani. Its
, ',,.i,1 be "Hamlet" by
: - e presented the last
::-.c part of Ophel:a ancl
: :akerl respectivcly b5'
.- c:ril'o alrd NI r. ('i,,r-
.: c third production .n'ill
.-e rt'," b]' Rohert lJrar'-
I I :. s Clara Capasso alcl
: (ialassi n'il1 take the
-: \lr. Lrrigi Licur.i is
::.'-.jr of this drama. otr
:: arnivcrsary dance rvitl-r
: ::cciri1lo as chairnran ivill
:i;:r' 28. IIr. Giuseppe r\-
-. : l.Ianhattan College tleliver-
:: i:: ::)orlsored by the art cle-
- r "Thc Italian Architect-
: -jl.r1r:lissarrce." Of the :rbove
. :::"e:" alone lvi11 be given it.t
.:-e orhers ill Italian. \'{r.
::.':a is scenic director, ancl
: : :::llr, and trlr. l.uigi Capucci
.::. oi the rlusic. On l!{arch
,- - la \Iassimino rvas clectccl
:-::d IIr. Stefano IIorelli
:'--:AGC SOCIETY HEARS
DANTE LECTURER
,-.: .,:r:e Alighicri Society rif Chi-
- - :heir monthly Dinner-Lect-
.','.dnesday, January 27, at the
: - > .:a:iord Hotcl in that city.
i honor lvas Colonel Frank
.,:', i.her of the Llhicago Daily
.'r!-(r aflqr lltc dittttrr rtas
-., --gcro De Caro, oI North'n'estr:..:::itv.
Prof. De Caro former-
. . r: th. Royal Military College
:: : r:re Pontifical College of St.
-:: .. and the Royal Lyceum of
-: Ht- is thc author of a rrork
. .:.:hetic unitv o{ Homer's Ili-
- :.. .ubject r','hich he chose for
- :::::'g \\'as "The Initial Cantos
- -,r..ine Come

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ITALIAI{ AUXILIARY
HELPED 28,366 IN 19JJ1
The litLl, -krrown but extrenteiy irrrlustrious
and active Italian Auxiiiary.
Ir1c.. ,,1 Ncrr. York, the purpose oi
\\'trrclr rs to lrclp the Italian imnrigrant
in this country, heiped no fewer-than
28,366 of them during thc year 1931,
aud of these I869 received foocl anci
lodging, according t() a report recetltl]issued.
Backcd up lrl.tlic invaruahle
aid of Fl . "8. ( ardirral Haycs, this organization,
rvhich because of the c1epression
had its lvorl greatly arrgmcnted,
has as its zealous ilirector
tr{ons. Gerrnano Formica. rvho is alscr
cditor oI the Italiarr magazirrc "La Voce
dell'Emigrato." Sorne of thc ltaliar-r
Auxiliary's many activities include
legal services, secretarial work 1acquiring
of papers, documents, etc.),
enployment aid, travelers' guidance,
religious help (including u.eck lJ- nrasscs
at Ellis Island), r'rc. Thc offices of
the Auxiliary arc at 45 West St., Ner,v
York Citl'.
NEW OFFICERS FOR ITALO-
AMERICAN NATIONAL
UNION
Following thc death last year of its
fornrer president, Cav. Costat.rtino Vitello,
the Italo-Arnerican National
Union of Chicago, one of the largest
I talian societies in the micll\.est, rccer.rtl1'
elccted V. E. Ferrara as it prcsirlcnt
and treasurer ancl cbairnran of
the Boarcl ol Directors. Other oflicers
electecl rvcrc Ciro li. Balzano. and Lecr
Bonaveutura, r'ice-presiclents; D. F.
(.occia, secrctar_v; Thomas H. Landise,
gen. counsel; Dr. S. Ingrao, mcdical
d;rcctor; Dornenico Tinaglia, Sarvatore
Iiaso ancl Yincenzo Allegra, lrustees:
\r. Schicchi, chairman of the financial
conrnr'ittee ; IJ. l:). Barasa, sitting past
pres.; Salvatore Lococo, chaplairr: anrl
Sigisnrondo Gurgone, scntry. f'hc
Iloard of I)irectors, in addition to tlit:
abor.r (u-ith the except:on of the last
thrcc), iucluclcs C. F. llalzano, M. Nardrilli,
P. Di .F-rancesca, P. Bianco. S.
Clatisi and N. Anzalone. According
to the treasurcr's report, the society's
balancc as of I)ec. 1931 r,vas $169,590.-
78. and it has abour 50 lodges iri and
:Ltouncl Chicago.
Brilliance antl snccess rnarked tire
claboratc banquet rvhich the Circolo
Italiano of Philaclclphia tentlered rrccntiy
to Robert Lontbardi, pronrin:r,t
Philadelphia contractor ancl au honorary
president of thc Circolo. lhe aifarr
u'as he1

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.- ::.:-i:t: r'ear-book for
''- --cretary, Fede-
-:l :r.-o languages, the
- - . - ;,age -., and is rich
. : dara concerrring
'. : - 'i. a i1s County. Leo-
' I ::: :: president of the
:: -:A::ON & CULTURE
-l:,r :: r '.:rses rvhich Colum-
, -::r: every year will be
: :- r:::.:t this summer. An
' - .': ::-::t the casa Italiana
: -' : '.'. :ll offe r to all those
.- . - : :: an extraordinary op-
, , -:.:ct themselves in the
:- courses in language,
:- , .::i c.rnposition given bY
: , :-:::i-. and Dr. H. R. Mar-
.r .., : : : j::eS in literature given
'' l:-zzolini, the Casa Ita-
. i, :::r:irel)- at the disposal
' - - '-. -.,, :--... in adclition to thelr
:.:,. .'.:=r',ze themselves u.ith the
. - 1= . Every daY there will
-- , :::cleon presided over by
- : :- ::a'.:ctors, and every even-
: l be nreetings and con-
-. : ::Cucted entirely in Ital-
- :. . :-i'e been announced to
r :- : :ian ]Iuseum of Art to
--: .:'- art. to the tr{organ Libr-
::::: :::: Italian manuscripts, and
i.land to, sec the house
' :.: ' a di or-rce lived. ManY
- : -: : ;'. : already consettted t

8.1
D'rected bt' llaestro Guglielmo Salralirri,
tlrt' Italo-.\rr:cricarr Philarmorric
Orchcstra of Philadelphia recently began
a series of concerts at the New
Century Auditoriun-r in that city, with
a program includiug rvorks by Cherubini,
I\fozart, Sandoni, Beethoven,
Verdi. and tlrc nroderns, Catalani, Pratella
and Carabella. The baritone
Peter Petroitis rvas thc soloist of the
evening.
Vincent La Bades-"a, talented young
artist of Pl-riladeiphia, recently 1're1d a
one-man show' of sorue 25 black anc!
u,hitc sketches at the Warwick Gallerics
in that city. The rvork of -\[r.
La Badessa, an honor graduatc of the
Philadclphia School of Industrial Art,
is rvell knorn'n in that city, having previously
been displayecl at the Pennsl.lvanii
Academy of Fine A1ts, the
Philadelphia School of Industilai Art,
and the Philadelphia Gallery of Contemporar)r
Art.
PROFESSIONS
The American Societ-v o{ Nledical
History hclcl an Italian Evening last
rnonth at the offices of "X{edical Life,"
a n-ronthly review, $'ith the Italian Consul
General. Corunr. Emanuele Grazzt,
as guest oi honor. Dr. L. F. Bishop
presided, autl the speakers included Dr.
Cesare Legiardi-l-aura, rvho described
"I'he l.'orgotten Past"; Dr. James J.
\Valsh, author of "What Civilization
Ow'es to Italy" ancl sonrc thirttr or
forty otlrrr ir6oks, rvho clrose foi his
subjcct "Italian X'leclicine in the If iddle
Age": and Dr. Victor Robinson, autl-ror
of " l'h c St or5 of Il edicine", wh o
spoke on "Leouarrlo 11a Virrci-Hcrald
of the llenaissauce." A musical progrrill
c(,ilclUdcrl tlrt. t.r'erriilg.
The 3.lth anniversary of the fouucling
oI rlrt. Italiarr Plrarnr-accuticai Socictv
of Neu. York State ll,as celebratcd las"t
motrth at the arrnual ltanquct of the
Society givcn at the new \Varclori-Astoria
FIotcl in Neu. York Citv. Dr.
Johrr Sca.vo rlas clrairnrarr,,f ilrc.xecutive
conrrlittee, other nrcmbers of
u4rich included L. Realbrrto, D. Cracht,
N. S. Gesoalde ancl A. I'c'rsor-reni. -I'he
officcrs of tlre Socictr-;rrc.\. S. Caralrillo.
1rres.; l;. C. di Bcrrctlelto anrl
'.l'hos J. Rocchio, r'ice-presidents; A.
Caralrillo. trea'.I J. J. Sclaro, fi1. sec.;
Bcrtiarrrino Gagliarrrt. corr. sec.; arrtl
\\-alter l'auaro, r('c. scc.
"The Origins ar.rcl Development of
I.-ascisnr" was thc subject of ai acldress
dclivered not long ago by Comm. Enranuele
Grazzi, Italial Consul General
in Ncrv York, be{ore a large gathcring
at the School oT Journalism of Nerv
York tlnivcrsity. The eminent rcpresentative
of Ital-v in the world's
largest city spoke on the same subject
a fortnight later as the guest speaker
at the home of Mrs. F. Havemever ir.r
Stttlorr PIace. rrnder rhc au-piies ol
the Italy America Society.
fn honor jointly of thc Mayor of
San Francisco, thc lIon. Angelo Rossi,
and the Italian physicians of that
city, the Fcderation of Italiar-r Societies
of California last nronth gave a banquet
in order to further the cause of
the Dante Hospital. Arnong the
ATLANTICA, APRIL, 1932
guests of honor, in addition to the
Mayor, were the Italian Consul General,
Cornm. tr{anzini, Gr. Uff. Ettore
Patrizi, editor of "1,'Italia" ancl one of
thc founders of both the Hospital and
the F-ederation, ar.rd others arnong the
200 rvho attended. 'lhc success of the
occasion is to be creclitecl to the rvork
of lfrs. Oliva Bossu and tr{r. Agostino
Rossi, aiclccl by a connrittec.
Friends of Leroy J. D'A1oia, son of
Iorrner Prosecutor ancl Judge J. Victor
D'Aloia of Nervark, N. J., gar.e a dinncr
rlance last nronth at the Newark
.\thletic Club to celebrate his admission
to the bar. tr'tore than 800 persons,
it'lvas cstinrated, attended the
affair, of which (,omrnon Pleas Juclge
Daniel J. Brennan rvas toastmaster.
The cornmittee in charge of thc dinner
dance consisted of County Detective
Joseph Giuliano, chairman, lvleyer Q.
Kesscl, Michael Santa Maria, and
Charles Garramone.
The "Italian Nervs" of Boston, a
rveekly English languagc paper in that
cit)', recentl). celebrated its 11th anniversary.
Principio A. Satrtosuosso is
its editor.
lvlonsignor Don Francesco Grassi'
rector of the Church o{ St. Anthonl'
irr thc Brorrx, and a ( orntnandcr of
the Order of the Cror'vn of Italy, has
been further honorecl by the Italian
Government by bcing made a Chevalier
of the Order of Saints \4aurice
ancl Lazarus, one of thc highest honors
the Government bestorvs.
Among those n,ho last month lvere
nrade Chevalier of the Crou.n of Italy
by thc Italian Govcrnnent u'ere Prof.
Filippo Spinelli, head of the Legal Office
of the Italian Consulate in Nerv
York, and the Rev. Charles J. Car-rivan
oi the Catholic Church of St. I)ominick
in Oyster Bay, I-. T
The Association oi Italian Physicians
in America, which gathers monthly
in Nerv York for scientific and professional
cliscussior.r. held its annual
bar.rcluct not lor.rg ago at the Nelv
Yorker Hotel, as announced in our
last issue. Niorc than 500 attendccl.
At the gucst table u.ere Comm. Er.narrucle
Grazzi, Italiarr Consul in Nerv
York. Dr. fr. Cassola, presiclent of the
Association, Itaio C. Falbo, eclitor of
"I1 Progres-.o" of Nerv York, Dr. and
Mrs. Giorclano, Car.. ancl tr4rs. S. \{.
Pirio, Dr. C.orde11a, Dr. Liva, and Dr.
laormino. The dir-rner

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ATTANTIIA
in Italiano
PROIBIZIONISMO AL BIVIO
di
.:- csplessione ,,tO
- : cn conosciuta da
- :'. ' :'r c1e1 Parlamen-
, - ::rrlt& parte del lin-
- .qislazione Ameri-
: : :ti: particolarmente
: -: cliscussioni sul
-: . , ,ggetto delle piir
. .ie nelia politica
.-
A-
,:rie 1'ultimo decen-
. . '....- cotrsumata arte
: - - :te l'arcigna ostr_
, . . :, ,ibiziorristi furono
- : r.C SCOTSO, aCl arre-
-: t::tiC lttxfe? di discOn-
: la pii impopolare
- :ata rn questa telra
' , :r;:a volta. ciacchd Ia
' . -.-: in eifetto ia Camc-
, -- --',.,rtt.uriti i1 14 Nfarzo
- :-'. i:r aIprello nonrina-
, :r ,) contro il proibi-
'. - . nralgraclo che, tec-
: : _:. r ittoria sia stata dei
' , ': '. "tarono in 227 contro
:: > i primi, come disse
- -:r --r :r i'on. Beck, hanno
: .. '. :troria di Pirro e sa-
- :-::: c, rr-r un'altra simile vit-
- ..'.,ts'' non ar.evano al-
:r:r".-i1Z\. d'ottenere ul1a
, .:" r;a suificiente a portare
: . t: Con'ritato Giucliziario
- ..::rcltto la proposta Beck-
' - .'.:r Lrer 1a rnodifica del 18.o
,:-::rL-11to, modifica cl-re rap-
_ ::-. a la ragione della conte-
- _ .:t:cor meno speravano di
: .::-nere i due terzi neces-
:_:: 1'approvazione della Ieg-
.. :.-1o che essi desideravancr
r ::ellltefo al di li ilelle loro
:,.::i'e fu cli poter far sfoggio
- : _, IOrZe.
'.tt." clel parianento, esercii
-',,ro muscoli li hanno tro-
. -:-icier-rtementc roltusti. Ec-
Domenico Lomonico
co perche essi sono esllltanti e con
loro anche esultano i rnilioni di
:\mericani che hanno combattutcl
per anni contro una legge che, co-
11re una cancfena sta consumando
e corro

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talia quanclo voi clonrandate ioro
di inclicarvi i1 teatro cle1le marionette.
E, anche se seguite la loro
indicazione potete f aciln.rente oltrepassare,
senza notarla, la rrodesta
entrata clei teatro del Signor
Manteo. Non e certo meglio i1lumir.rata
del1'acliacente r-regozio di
pizzicagnolo o della pasticceria e,
malgraclo che il tearro ormai cia
tre anni altltia eletto a suo domrcilio
quell'anclrone i1 suo nome
non si legge sr-r11a stretta facciata.
Nal.uralmente non si danno biglietti.
La Sigrrora Nlanteo incassa
siienziosarrente e timidanlentc
il rlrr;u'tel ed ogrruno sceglie
il prciprio posto sll uno dei
cluri sedili, nella sala angusta e
senz'aria. Qui d ignorata ogni
nLlo\ra cor-rciuista cle11a meccanica
nella scenografia moderna, ma in
nessull altro teatro Americanu
come irr (lueltu, tuttora vive e regna
io spirito rlel teatro arrtico.
11 pubblico d composto, in maggioranza.
erai di
tnezza eti". Non una sola testa
impomatata nelia folla; i giovani
entrano co1 ioro lterretto in testa,
nd si scoprono durante tutto 1o
spettacolo. NIolti clegli spettatori
sono analfabeti. nra sono venuti
da lontano, clopo una clura giornata
di lavoro per assistere aile
ernozionanti gesta de11'Orlancto
Furioso. Questo pubblico r\ewyorkese,
in pieno XX Secolo, assiste
allo spettacolo, con io stesso
spirito che animava gli spettatorr
siculi dell'opera dei pupi ai tempo
cli Colombo.
Siler.rziosamente questi popolani
s'appassionano ad un episodio di
nna storia che loro gi5 cotroscono
e che i loro antenati gii hannc,
amato. Durante 1o spettacolo si
comportano come in casa di un
vecchio amico. Fumano, bevono
pop, mangiano frutta e nocciole e
cospargono il pavimento di cerrere,
-bottigiie, buccie. Ma il piir
profondo silenzio regna nella slla
non appena il sipario si alza.
,,1'OPERA DEI PUPI"
Un Teotro di Morionette o New York
di Ann Fox
Un cavaliere in lucente arntatura
appare neilo stondo. E_ssr.r
sembra una creazione cle1la romantica
in-rmaginazione oi un giovane
cc,llegiale alla cui rnerrte la
prima lettura di "lvanhoe " ita
ispirato visioni avventurose cli
cavalieri e crociati. Strana e calaileresca
figura. chius:r irr una c,rrazza
cesellata, irnpugna con la
c1e ,tra 1a scialtola, con la sinistra
1o scudo ecl una penna mutticolore
aclorna 1a sommiti clell'alto elmo.
'I\f PIiO V\rISO scprilla, clietro
1e quinte un campanello.
E' per il pianista il segnale
di interrornpere. l1 guerriero comincia
a declamare con grande
eloquenza. Lo scuclo, la sciabola
e l'elmo piumato donclolano ritrnicamente,
seguenclo la sonora cadenza
del verso cl'Arrosro. Anche
chi ignora 1'Italiano lntuisce facilmente,
uclenclo il suo intercalare
"miserabili pagarri", che, per i
saraceni non vi d merce. nIa certo
egli d un cristiano I Nel fondale
non d forse dipinto un accampamento
e, su ogni tenda, la
croce? Inclubbiarnente d il campo
clei cristiani.
E aclesso ecco L11r altro crociato
s'appende ai piccolo fondale poi
un aitro, poi un altro ancora. Marzialmente
si schierar-ro nello sfondo,
e aclempiono la funzione clel-
I'antico coro greco. L'arte ciei
pupi fu certo introdotta in Sicilia
dai greci. Solo parecchi secoli
clopo 1a marionetta greco-sicula si
truccd in difensore della {ede cristiana.
Non vi sono due corazze tagliate
sullo stesso moclello nd cesellate
con f identico disegno. Non
r-i sono due penne dello stesso
colore nd due casacche dello stesso
velluto. L'insieme d di un pittoresco
inefiabile. Non vi d aicuna
uni{ormitd dr costume o di
colore nella schiera dei cavalieri
cli Carlo Magno. I1 fabbro Manteo
mai vorrebbe f oggiare due
corazze uguali nd 1o scultore
N{anteo vorrebbe rntagliare nello
stesso tronco due uguali cavalieri.
86
I)i nuovo intonarro I'esuberante
r-erso di Ariosto, magnificamente
enunziato. E' il Srgnor Mantec
che legge le parti mascliili, adattando
ia sua voce e la sua interpretazione
ai differenti personaggi.
I1 pubblico, corlosce bene le
parti, ma la meclia clegli spettatori
nordici devono iclentihcare i personaggi
dai gesti clel1e marionette.
E ben si comprencle qual'd il cavaliere
che

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: -.:., --tiri. cottle ve
- - :::.i. L'interpre-
.:. -: ,la alle belte
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-:-:'-tison de Ro-
-- .--" cie11'Orlando
'. ..-::ti de11'eroe di
,",:. :ilf infecleltd di
1 i- 111 llove mesi:
. ilt, stri e draghi
,:. : c.orso c1el1e loro
: : .. ': r-.rrO. E ClUeSti
- :. .a prenclere alla
- :ir;.n,li corpi \ e1--
.:- nell'aria e clalle
: r ::rlriscono fiamme.
:: - lttttta, Un mOStfO
': :tt;r l,otetc ('onta-
- .i:' Jrrgu alnto nel-
,:l:r:r1tj111g119 deilo
' -:,-: 1':'ere iclea cli cid che
: i: :- irtrcrre e lo Strepi-
.. .. trtr mai assistito ad
. ::: rapprcrelrtazioni. I1
- - :-,: :i ltattc a clue11o, di
::.,, ,lci cirvalieri, cri-
):rl:i€no Secotrdo le cir-
: ,_i, po l. baruffa e 1a
:.:tcr le lame e a1 conl-
'. : i >-{ue una Iotta finale
: :.:po.: 1o strepito che
- .'.:- e p1r.1 grande di quel-
-'.ir:ebbe L1n negozio di
,- =:r:. durante un violento
- Cozzano tra loro corr
. .".2x. clre rl'isHrrto r.i co-
- crlri. ternenrlo che una
i .. -, : icrisca lrei corso del
: ::t'-quinario contitattimen-
- LL corazze fabbricate clal
i.;-:rrr Jlanteo sono tanto
: 1 :1ste quanto que11e uscl-
.:- .-,,-,ttega del pii famoso
,1e1 tempo cli Carloma-
,1,: scontri si susseguono
I-'OP]'RA DEI PLIPI
con tanta rapiditi quanto d umanamente
possil>ile agli operatori :
cofazzc contro cL)rzt",:zi:
- Scllcli
contro scu(li. Le pesar-rti marirt_
nettc verrgono ltllciate a\ alltl c
indietro : 1e gricla chc si oclono
clietro 1e quinte traslorrnanr) qucsto
{racasso nel piir indiar-oiato
panclernonio.
Ah I Ora, perd potete resl;irare
in pace. I1 car,aliere rlall:l ircnna
verlniglia 6 cacluto al suolo. Ora
ne1 can'rpo regneri ta pace e g1i
:Lmori e ocli clel r-crcle-piurn:rto
vittorioso si comporra.nno irt relativa
quiete.
NIa clal1e quinte a1)parc rin 1rr1ovo
nemico. I)i r-ruovo ulr pallrosL)
cornltattimento tiene il r-ristro zrnirno
in sosl)eso sint_r a cluantlo
rrno dei cavalieri g,iacc. r irito, nccanto
alla prima r,ittima. Capita
spesso all'eroe c1el1a sera di abbattere
una esterntnia. Ilssi tolierano gli cstranci
prlrche essi si crtnrportino
tanto rispettosarnente (irlanto loro
stessi. Analfabeti, i()rsc, ma 11or
sprovyisti cli cultura, i macellai c
i fornai de1la Piccola Italia trascrrrano
il cinematografo per 1e erotcomiche
ar.r.entnre di tlt1 e roc
clell'ottavo secolo. Essi sono splritualmente
forse i direttt discenrienti
cli c1ue1 famoso bandito cl-re
mise Ariosto in iiberta nol1 appena
seppe che i1 suo prlgioniero
era l'autore ilel1'Orlando Furioso.

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IL RINASCIMENTO SCIENTIFICO ITALIANO
NELLA STORIA DELLA CIVILTA' EUROPEA
del Prof. Arturo Costiglioni
U,\l-l'- sia stata la parte cl"re
gli studenti stranieri ebbrlro
trelf insegnamento e par.
ticolanlelrte in c1uello clella mecli-
.'irta, e rlittto:lratu dallt ttote t'ltt'
si trovano nei libri della nazionc,
oerni, i danesi, i fiatntlin-.
glri. i 1,,,lr,cchi, elessero ciascuno
un loro rappresentante; neli'anno
1.589 scoppid una grzrve cluet'ela
ira gli stuclenti danesi e que1i. prrlacchi.
Gli inglcsi, cr,rme fu

;abriello Frascati da Brescta
: :hiamato alla corte di Filippo
- :e di Spagna intorno al 1580.
-\pollonio Menabeno, filosofo e
."lico milanese, erudito nella
-: :ia naturale e coltivatore delta
.csia latina, fu medico del re di
- . tzia Giovanni III e pubblicd
.- 1581 un trattato intorno al
-r:scr € riflusso delle acque intora
Stoccolma.
Due illustri medici italiani e-
-tricitarono 1a medicina in Polo-
:-ra : 1'uno {u Antonio Gazio che
i:a stato studente a Pac1oi.a, i'ai-
,:o Jacopo Ferdinancli da Bari che
--- reco in Polonia e {u meclico di
. e Sigisrnondo II e pubblico a
--racovia nel 1542 un trattato sur-
,a preservazione dal1a peste. Al-
-a medesirna corte visse verso ii
-571 Nicold Buccella, padovano.
--hiamato a medico ciai re Stefano
: che ivi mori ne1 161U,
x{

90
to fondamentale del quale Leonar-do
aveva espresso il programma
con le parole "saper vedere" e Galileo
1o concludeva col detto "la
natura d scritta in lettere matematiche,"
i1 Rinascimento scientrhco
ha il suo inizio. Da questo grande
movimento verso 1a veritA e
verso 1:i liberti" dello studio, movimento
estetico e storico di frorrte
a quello rir,oluzionario e iconc.rclastico
clella Germania luterana,,
traggono origine o conforto gl1
stu

clel popolo siciliano. Niuna arte 6
piir originale, niuna pii razionale."
- Cosa d rimasto di tanto
tesoro artistico che era pro{uso
nel seno di Messina ? E' cosa
rnolto triste il pensare che quanto
generazioni alacri, pazienti e geniali
avcvano l)rclraralo. curato,
reso glorioso ec1 amtrirevole, venne
quasi cotnpletamente clistrut-io,
annientato c1a un'irrrprovr.isa convulsione
de11a terra I
Passato i1 primo periodo di
smarrimento 1a operosa, patriottica
e gentiie popolaziotre che si
sentiva gii. sacrilicata ne1le baracche
che presentavano i disagi
del provvisorio, pensar.a, con legittimo
orgoglio e,l inrnrerrso anore,
a fare risorgere la srra citti
amata e per come era pr,rna del
terremoto se f osse stato possibile!.""
ICOSTRUIRE la citti eviclentemente
era L1n probiema
moito serio, sia per la questione
economica, sia per quella
costruttiv:.1, sia per que1la architettonica.
Per la cluestione economica fu
provr.ecluto ; perd non in modo
sodclisfacente; tanto che ancora si
her nrolto lrisogno clc1 benevoltr
aiuto clel go\rerno.
La questione c1e1 sistema costruttir.o
si presentava molto grar-e
ecl interessante. Come garantir
e, o rlreglio, come difenclere le
n'ri()\'e t 0s,rLrzioui c1:t uu uuovo eventtt:Lle
tcrremoto che potesse
creare un nuo\:o {1age1lo?
Questo problerna fu studiato
accuratamente e cor.r genialiti. clalf
illustre Prof. A. Dalruso. del R.
Politecnico c1i \{iiano. che in un
congresso c1i ingegneri, ne1 190!.)
faceva tu"ra geniale e clotta comunicazione,
illustrando un sistema
tli calcolo che climostrarra come 1:r
struttura in cemento arnrato dir
lui presa in esarle risultasse sodtlisfacerrtc
1)er una cr,strttziolre
zrntisismica.
Non d qui rnio compito, perd,
parlare in merito a tale interessantissin-ra
corrunicazione, nd cli
altre relazioni che si sono succeclute,
nd cli tutti i provveclimenti
che il l{inistero competente ebbe
la premura di irrendere. N[i limito
solo a clire che in seguito ai detti
ec1 altri str,rdi le prescrizioni ufficia1i
ordinavano cl-re le costruzioni
antisismiche dovessero avere
struttura in cemento armato
composta cla membratura verticali
e orizzor-rtali resi solidali da for-
,,ATLAI.{ ItrCA', INI ITALIANO
11larne un sistema nronolitico che,
per la sua elasticit:\ clovuta ai suoi
llrlr:t'oli di acciaiu, si 1rIesrttilcr':L
ben resistente agli -.iorzi piit pelir:ul,r>i
dr rr tlti ;Llle iorze t)rizzuDtali
r r,elticali prockitte cl:r11c scosse
onclttlattiric c -st.tssr-rltoric del
terrcnroto. Inoltre, che i fabbricati
nt.in iives-sero uua troppo larga
ba-.e e c-he uon iris,*ero cli a'ltezzil
sLlpcriritc a metri dieci, :r1lezza
cb.e aclc's,oo d lrort:'"ta a mctri
dorlici per g1i cdifici courttui e
zr rnetri cluattorrlici per: c1uel1i nronurncutali.
Ii cir) percl-re si r-ietle
a ricltrrre cosi ir ttllc.zz.a 1:L uas,.a
osciilante c1'e cluct,to piil e clist:ur
tc rlalla base tzrnto piir lorternente
esercita 1o sforzo ue1la stnttttt-
r:r che si ritiene cofile u1l:r filelrsci-
111 . tttcglir' 1111 f il;1-11',t itl(':t-11';t1,,
nc1 terreno.
/^UItPLliS) \ .i l,rtsetttaia lli
U q 1r c s 1 i,, lt e archittttolliclt.
N{essina ave \':I Ll11it fisionornia
stolica artistica pro{usa nei
srlo selr() che p:rrla'''a un lit-rguaggio
eloc1r-rente, che si cloverta rispettare
e colla cluale lo sviluPo
futuro clover,a essere conciliato.
Per il suo climzr, per i1 suo sPirito
coloristico policrono, per la gioconditi
della sua 1uce, N'Iessinzr richiecleva
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92
gliori tradizioni italiane. Connulrio
ideale per lo studio di una
chiesa quando collaborano la potenza
espressiva ed eloquente del-
1'artista e 1o spirito asceta, mistico
cii chi sente intimamente le esigenze,
tritta la religiosit) del-
I'ambiente clestinato a diventare il
tenrpio di Dio.
Cornpito cliffici1e e delic:rto, evitlenternente,
que11o cle11'Uificio
tecnico arcivescovile che :rveva ed
ha ancora. come capo I'Ing. Barbalo,
giovane di belf ingegno, e come
collaboratori gior.ani ingegneri intelligenti
e cli bella capaciti. creativa.
Quanti istituti e chiese, ir-r
citti ed in provincia, vennero
create da quei giovani con viva
scnsiiriliti. artistica ed eseguite con
alnore palpitante c1a uscirne ciei
gr:rziosi gioielli cli architettrrra !
Di ogni progetto grandioso, anche
affidato per la direzione so1a, veniva
intercettata ogni minima sfumatura,
ogni reconclita armonia
che vibrasse in esso. X,lessina
quindi ha gii ed avri ancora delle
opere che ricorderanno nei secoli
non solo l'artista creatore, tna anche
l'opera amorosa, seyera e tnagnifica
cli S. E. Paino, ed il saggio
e bener.ole aiuto del Governo-che
ne ha permessa ec1 agevolata la
costluzione.
11 Duomo gid riappare con quella
fulgida bellezza, con quella slla
festosit) policrom:r che illuminava
la N essina di una volta.
E' tornato a sorridere nuovarnente
quel lneraviglioso portale
cli ricca e fantastica vegetazione
1na1111orea. Fastosa composizione

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I"1.)GAN'|E e magnifico d il
'fempio \rotivo a pianta centrale
e con una imponente
Cupola che sorge in alto su quel-
1a llocca Guelfonia che ci parla
cleller piir belle gesta de1la Messina
guerriera e patriottica. Quella
colossale opera architettonica
clal suo splenrliclo barocco che ci
parla clella eterna lltrma, i itno r-lci
capolavori rlelf illrrstre I,rof. l{ilani.
In Ltiazza l)uomo sorge la bellrr
fontana cli Orione clel Montorsoli,
per come era prima del terrenroto.
l-'insierne cli questa fontana
e di una grazia unica resa pir\
luminos:r da1la bicromia del materiale;
ccl i particolari, specie le
statue clei fiurni ci fai.ino ricrrrci;ire
che il l,Iontorsoli fu un a{fe,
zionato allievo cli I,Iichelangelo.
Per quanto d 1a cornposizion6 r,igorosa
della fontana c1i Nettuno.
lche s',rgt' sull:r \larirra) che tlirnostra
vieirpiir quale fascino eser_
citzrssc sul X{ontorsoli la sublinre
arte cli X'Iichelangelo: si:r

94 ATLANTICA. APRII.. \932
CIANNINI BIPRFNDE IL CONIROLLO
DE}}A IRA}\>A}PIER)tA
Di
JJT O fari rlcl nrio rneglio nelf
l'interesse clegli azionistt
fila non sono nd un mago
rrd un superuomo e conto sulla
costante cooperazione degli aziouisti
stessi e degli amici della
'lransamerica."
Con clueste parole Amecleo P.
(]iannini dopo una strelrua e dura
lotta ha recentemente riconosciuta
ia fiducia di migliaia di azionisti,
rnolti dei quali Italiani che
l'hanno ristabilito al posto di
chairman del1a grancie Transame'
lica Corporation.
Fu Elisha Walker, il banchiere
r1i Wall Street, che assunse il posto
di Giannini nel cor.rtrollo della
istituzione clopo ie clirnissioni c1i
cluest'ultinto, in rrna lotta che ha
attirato 1'attenzione deli'intero
paese e di azionisti sparsi in piit
tli 2O nazioni straniere.
La vittoria cli Giannini porta di
nllovo in prima linea il figlio di
un irnnrigrato Italiano che ha saputo
eler.arsi cla11a povertd ad una
posizione dominante nel1a finanza
Americana, e la sua rrittoria d
ancora piir significativa se si mistlrano
7e lorze che a \Va1l Street
appoggiar.ano \\,-a1ker. Un'altro
punto importante e il fatto che
non soltanto g1i Italiani ma per
tre quarti anche g1i Arrericani si
aggrupparono intorno a Giannini.
Cio climostra quale f ede hanno
tutti nella straorclinaria abilit) da
1ui climostrata ne1lo sviluppare ed
amministrare una de1le piu grandi
banche del mondo. Jigli ha subito
annunciato che avreltbe rinunziato
ad ogni stipendio ed altri
importanti risparmi saranno fatti
negli stipencli de1 Presidente e degli
altri Direttori.
Nel 1929, clnando Giannini pensd
alle sue dimissioni cercd attorno
a se un clirigente capace di occllpare
il suo posto e credette di
trovare in E. Walker 1e qualiti
necessarie per sviluppare il lavc-rro
da 1ui iniziati. Ne1 febbraio
1930 Walker fu eletto chairman
della Trarrsamerica e L. M. Giannini,
fig1io del fondatore fu eletto
presidente. A. P. Giannini divenne
chairrnan del consiglio d'anrrninistrazione.
I-e modifiche fatte
in cluel tempo furon considerate
Mqtteo Melchiorre
come inclicaziotte che f infllrenza
di Walker si sarebbe esercitata
sulle coste de1 Pacifico. Subitcr
dopo fu organizzata una campagna"
nazionale per ottenere mezzo
nrilione di azionisti e iI 25 Luglio
I 930 Ia Transamel-ica Corporatiorr
fu iscritta al New York Stock Exchange.
Ulteriori circostanze resero
necessarie le dimissioni di A.
I'. Giannini il quale dichiard che
lron approvava la politica, i piani
e 1a procedura clel suo successorc
E. \"I,/alker.
f
L piano in attuazione si presta-
t va infatti, secondo Giannini :,
molte obbiezioni in quanto sr
l)r()pone\ra di togliere alla Corporazione
il controilo de1le sue Istrtuzioni
principali e non dava aglr
azionisti 11 mezzo di esprimere ta
lciro opinione circa i terrnini e il
momento delie vendite, fusioni,
ecc., nd dava ad essi la certezza di
avere il controllo delf istituzione.
I1 disaccordo tra il gruppo Giannini
e il gruppo \\ralke] clivenne
sempre piu grave fino a quanclo
non avyenne la rottura, ne1 mo_
mento in cui ia Bank of America
frr fusa con la National City l3ank.
Giannini allora organizzb Ie
lnasse degli azionisti specialmente
nei West e li raggruppd contro
il gruppo capitanato da E. Walker.
La lotta tra Giannini e Walker
prese tutte le forme e tutto il calore
di una campagna politica" Le
principali accllse fatte dal Gianniii
6siconrlo il Tjrres del 15 Feb-
\s{s L9a2\ tss

al successo me1lo un elemento di
cssenziale importanza. CioA non
\'1 era.cornprer-rsione del punto di
rista clello stranieru.
G1i intcllettuali e benintenzio_
nati a capo del ntovimento di A_
rnericantzzazione agivano, abi_
tualruente. supl,rrrerr',i,, che i [o_
rcstieri rlt'r r rno es>ct-e "rirrressi a
lruovo". E,rano convinti che A_
t't'tericanizztlr e signi fi car, a al ter.:rre
completamente il loro modo cii fa_
re e cli vir-ere. I forestieri erano
consiclerati conre esseri spror-r,isti
cli traclizione sociale e culturale.
,\genclo sotto questa irrrpr"ssior.
troppo silesso Arnericaniz zare rli_
r elltc silt,,rtirn,, rli l)dtrt)iizzate.
Questo d stato, seconclo me, un
s'ra\ e crrL,t-(.. L'elenretrto stra_
niero c1ella nostra popolazione,
rpecialrrrerrte i. grrrplri europci,
vcnnero da noi con ricchi-.sime
tradizioni sociali e culturali. L.es_
sere stranieri se costituisce una
,l.iVe.rsita.r'tilll ral)presenta utr.in{e_
l'r()rlta lte, ler cio srlo, rr.rrtle u-
*piti l,oco rlcsirleral,ili. l"irtti
per non essere nati in America
ron s.i e, colr cio, rrecessariarnente
iurtr .\nlertcaili. Se arnericarrizza_
zione significa quelio .t.,. ...Jo
1{l. Ct.r,c trrra proi6y;1la fe,is rrelle
(tt-l1tl'rlrc lroliticltc,lclia tliclriara_
zi3rre ,li. irr,.l ilrclr,lcriza applicate
;r.r ra cr,:trtuzr,,rrc ,legli Statl L rrr_
1t. nto.ltc l)cl.)ollr-. rraie rrll.estcro c
:IitlJlltte
.llt qneSlO
l)ae:c. i{,11,)
tanto sinceratr.rente .!rncricalte
quanto gli americani di clir_er-qe
g'encrazior-ri. Anrericanrslr-lo lron
e una couclizione cli nascita ltra u_
no . stato cl'aninro e di cuore. I
,lilig.cnti ,lei anrl,l,i ltaliarri re.i_
,ierrtr riegli Stati L'rrrti :i rerrrlt,ro
corrto che i 1uril coil l[rziorra]i rrort
J)oss0no aslrirare ad esscrc c(r1.rii_
,lcrati A rrrer-icani sirro a ,1ri",'t.f ,,
essl conservano il loro modo c1i
l)eltsill'c. la l,'ro Iirrgrra e il iorn
rnoclo di r ir-ere.
GGI quasi 6 000.000 cli perso_
ne residenti negli Stati Uniti
sono Italiane cli n:rscit:r r;
,ii ,,rigilre. Il>:e t.,,s1j111i

96
oeSS() e ()t)tIu Jolrtr I'r.'tttllet, rll, itCcusato
cl'aver Llccisa ia moglic.
L'udienz:L piil intercssante f rL
qr.rella irr cui I'erccus;rto fu chiamato
a rnccorrtar la su:r storizr.
"J ohrr llencllerton l, dif encliti"
clisse il suo :.rvvocirto, ec1 il pin
grzrncle silenzio si fece ne11'aula.
Conre egli si alzd tutti gli occhi si
fissarono srr cli lui. ligli aveva
llett prrc,, rli tlrrell'luilr r,,rrrarrticir
che il popolo zrssocizr serrrltre ai delitti
passicinali. Iira nn piccolo
LTorno tozT-o, quztralttenne, cluasi
calvo, clr

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