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Paolo Loffredo, sixth generation of a large family of publishers and booksellers engaged in the production and distribution of books since the late nineteenth century, creates in 2012 the new editorial company Paolo Loffredo Editore. The historical site was until the '80s in the heart of the historic centre of Naples in Via San Biagio dei Librai, lower Decumano and also known as the SpaccaNapoli.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Giuseppe Loffredo decided to add book selling to the book production, which definitively imposed itself after World War II with the publication of manuals for the University and for the School that succeeded in establishing themselves soon throughout Italy.

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Qui in America si soffre di più d'altri punti


ISBN: 979-1281068-33-9
ISSN: 2975-1942
Language: Italian
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Editore Srl
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Qui in America si soffre di più d'altri punti

The two curators present research conducted on the emigration that took place between the end of the nineteenth century and the 1940s in the municipalities of Licignano and Casalnuovo di Napoli. The central nucleus of the work consists of 64 letters sent by the emigrants of these two communities to their relatives. The letters, preserved in the municipal archives, were attached to the subsidy requests presented to the Podestà of the Municipality of Casalnuovo by virtue of the law issued by Mussolini which granted a daily subsidy to the family members of emigrants to the United States who were no longer able to receive the money since 1942 when the American government went to war against Italy.
The volume is a microhistory of southern emigration through the examination of the bureaucratic and real problems that afflicted those who courageously faced the long transoceanic journey in conditions that were sometimes desperate as well as extremely uncomfortable, to realize their American dream. Men, women and children live between the lines of this story, not unlike the others and with many affinities to the modern ones that crowd the Mediterranean. The journey, the conditions, the arrival on American soil, the requests for help from relatives and the hopes for a better future are the themes of the entire volume, which also collects other useful data to outline the cultural condition of the time through the writing of the thoughts of the emigrants and to bring other useful elements to the construction of the linguistic history of Campania.

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Raffaele Giglio is professor emeritus of Italian literature at the Federico II University. Director of «Critica letteraria», ordinary member of the Pontaniana Academy, he was particularly interested in Dante (Il lettore innamorato. Studi danteschi, Loffredo 2017), the eighteenth century (F. S. Salfi, Luigi Serio, Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel] and the nineteenth century , especially southern, of the literature-journalism relationship (Letteratura in colonna, Bulzoni 1993; of Letteratura e giornalismo, Loffredo 2012) by founding and directing the Cirleg (Italian Center for Research on Literature and Journalism). He edited unpublished texts by F. S. Salfi, G . d'Annunzio, M. Serao, V. Imbriani, S. Di Giacomo and others. He conceived and coordinated Napoli, città d'autore (2 vols., 2008-2010) as a continuation of the text Campania. Storia e testi (La Scuola, 1988).

Mario Visone, graduated in Modern Literature at the Federico II University, is a teacher of Italian language, literature and history. Expert in Italian literature at the University of Tor Vergata, he has written essays and novels, including La Seconda Natura (Homo Scrivens, 2018) and La Carna Trista (Castelvecchi, 2021).


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