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Belgium (in English translation) | | Date: The 20th Century | Notes: Italo-Belgian
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Italo-Belgian migrants and Italians living in Belgium in recent centuries, and their descendants.
History
The first Italians in Belgium were a few merchants and bankers of the Renaissance Tuscan, and a few dozen craft and exiled until the eighteenth century.
By the nineteenth century first began to build a small community of Italians, most northern, in the main cities of Wallonia and Brussels. These Italians, even if a few hundred, they feel their influence in the motion for the independence of Belgium in 1830 [1]
A party of Italian in Belgium devoted himself to work in coal mines in Wallonia, but emigration was always limited until the twentieth century. Also weakened during the years of Fascism, to be formed by a few tens of antifascist exiles.
After the Second World War there was a rather remarkable recovery of the flow emigratorio, mainly due to the destruction of war in Italy:
"In years when the various agreements are bilateral agreements between Italy and Belgium, as the Protocol of 23 June 1946 and the Protocol of 11 December 1957 the Italian immigrants are directed substantially towards the coal mines of Belgium are approximately 24,000 in 1946, over 46,000 in 1948. To convince people to go to work in mines in Belgium, Italy is carpeted with pink posters with only the benefits from the job of a miner: high wages, coal and travel by train free, family allowances, paid leave, early retirement. Apart from a period of decline corresponding to the years'49-'50, in 1961, Italians accounted for 44.2 percent of the foreign population in Belgium, reaching 200,000 units. [2]
In 1956 came the disaster of Marcinelle, and then reduced the number of Italians who worked in the Belgian mines.
Since the seventies, which recorded almost 300,000 Italians in Belgium, migration has been decreasing and currently reside there only 190,000 Italian citizens.
We must also point out that in recent decades with the creation and development of 'European Union, which has headquarters in Brussels, many Italian officials have moved there to live with their families (even if temporarily).
Italian community
Luciano Bianchi, who was born in Milan, Belgian race car driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1968
The current Italian community in Belgium is very well integrated into Belgian society. The Italo-Belgian occupy positions of highest importance, as the Queen of Belgium (Paola Ruffo di Calabria).
According to official statistics of 'AIRE in 2007 there were 235,673 Italian residents (including the Belgians with double passport). [3]
The data of the Italian Consular records also show that nearly 50,000 Italians in Belgium (ie, over 25%) come from Sicily. Then follow, but in much smaller quantities, the Italo-Belgian originating from Italy (9.5%), from 'Abruzzo (7%), Campania (6.5%) and Veneto (6%).
It should also be noted that over 300,000 people of Italian origin in Belgium, according to Belgian researchers [4].
The Italian community would therefore be the largest in Belgium and also the oldest, being focused on '85% in Wallonia and in the capital.
Printing and Italian institutions
For more, see the Print Italian language # Belgium.
In Belgium there are several institutions for the protection of the Italo-Belgian, and for pensions for social assistance. Twelve schools in Italy [1], concentrated in Brussels and Wallonia (such as the school consular Charleroi), are dedicated to teaching the Italian language together with institutions such as the Dante Alighieri Society. [5]
The Italian Press is widespread. These are the main publications, according to the ICD [6]:
* Social Action, Quarterly (Genk, 1995), publisher ACLI, director Fernando March. (Site)
* The Coffee, quarterly (Ghent, 2001), owner Centro Culturale Il Caffè, editor Nadia Cristofoli, director Gali Charles Vacca. (Site)
* Communitas, monthly (Brussels, 1963). Publisher Ass Foyer Catholique Européen.
* The Echo of Belgium, bimonthly (Quaregnon, since 1987), publisher and director Rosario Nocera.
* Emigration Siciliana, bimonthly (Saint-Nicolas), publisher Union Sicilian Emigrants and Families, Director Joseph Chiodo.
* The Island, bimonthly (Brussels, 1999), published by L'Altra Sicilia Foundation, director Francesco Paolo Catania. (Site)
* United States News, a monthly (Brussels), publisher Consulate of Italy in Brussels.
* Mosaic Italian - to care for students of Italian language and culture of the CDI and Dante Alighieri (Gosselies), editors Marcella Di Giulio and Guglielmina Terenzi.
* New Horizons Europe - Belgium, the bimonthly (Marchienne-au-Pont), published by Congregation Scalabriniana, director Father Raphael Zanella.
* Oraitalia, monthly (Brussels, 2006), and editor Jacques Idmtal sprl Artiva, director Salvatore Albelice. (Site)
* Here Italy, quarterly (Brussels, 1994), editor Daniele Rossini (ACLI Patronato property of Belgium), director Francesco Onorato. (Site)
Salvatore Adamo, Italo-Belgian singer famous in Europe in the sixties and seventies
Famous Italian-Belgian
* Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Queen of Belgium.
* Elio Di Rupo, politician, Minister-President of Wallonia
* Salvatore Adamo, American International
* Lara Fabian, singer and actress International
* Enzo Scifo, American International
* Claude Barzotti, singer
* Lucien Bianchi, race car driver
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La Louviere, Belgium | | Date: 1948 | | Notes: This picture was taken in Belgium in 1948; after the War my father who was born in Potenza, went to Belgium, seeking employment. He found work in the coal mines. He sent for my mother and myself a year later. My father worked in the coal mines for 5 years before immigrating to Montreal, Canada. Standing from left to right are: Zio Peppino, Aunt Isabella, M. Jule, owner of our rented house, my mother, Madalena and myself, Gemma (two years old). | Contributed by: Gemma Forliano
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La Louviere, Belgium | | Date: 1947 | | Notes: A family dinner in Belgium where my Italian-born father found work in the coal mines. | Contributed by: Gemma Forliano
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Newgate, London, England | | Date: 1910s? | | Notes: There are 133,000 people in the United Kingdom that are of Italian descent. Between the 1850s and 1960s London became home to thousands of Italians. Clerkenwell in the Borough of Islington is known as London's Little Italy.... Oddly enough while the English government actively encouraged the Irish in the 1910s to emmigrate to the United States, Italians were allowed to work in England. They found jobs as cooks, waiters and ice cream vendors. In 1911 over 20,000 Italians managed to find employment in England. For more information visit: www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chatper3.html. | Contributed by: Image courtesy of the New York Public Library, Digital Gallery, Digital ID: 836173.
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Great Britain | | Date: Current | Notes: Italian Briton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Notable Italian Britons
Frankie Dettori · Lawrence Dallaglio · John Florio
Benjamin Disraeli · Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Total population
150,000 Italian Born
300,000 - 500,000 Italian Ancestry
Up to almost 1% of total British population
Unknown Numbers of Partial Ancestry, due to the huge numbers of Italians residing in the UK over several centuries
Regions with significant populations
Wales · Peterborough · Manchester · Glasgow · Chelsea · South Kensington · Bedford · Westminster · Kensington
Languages
British English · Italian (and related forms)
Religion
Predominantly
Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
Italian, English, Scots, Welsh, Maltese, Gibraltarians
Italian Britons also known as Britalians, are British citizens whose both parents ancestry originates in Italy. The phrase may refer to someone born in the United Kingdom of Italian descent, someone who has themselves emigrated from Italy to the United Kingdom or someone born elsewhere (eg the United States) who are of Italian descent and have migrated to the UK. More specific terms used to describe Italian British people include: Italian English, Italian Scots and Italian Welsh.
According to the 2001 census a total of 107,002 Italian-born people are currently living in the United Kingdom, of whom 38,694 reside in London.[1] The British Embassy recently estimated that 19,000 Britons reside in Italy, and 150,000 Italians reside in the UK.[2] Up to 500,000 British people have some Italian ancestry[citation needed], with the Italian language being the first language of 200,000 Britons.[3]
Roman Britain
Main article: Roman Britain
The Romans were the first Italians to settle in the British Isles who came as far back as AD 43, when Emperor Claudius invaded.
Fifteenth to eighteenth centuries
According to historian Michael Wayatt, there was "a small but influential community" of Italians "that took shape in England in the fifteenth century initially consisting of ecclesiastics, humanists, merchants, bankers, and artists."[4] In the aftermath of the English Reformation, amongst other religious refugees from the European continent, many Italian Protestants found Tudor England to be a hospitable haven, and brought with them cultural Italian ties. The fifteenth century also saw the birth of a pivotal Italo-Englishman in the form of John Florio, a famed language teacher, lexicographer, and translator. The Titus family is another significant group that settled in England in the time of the Renaissance.
The arts flourished under the Hanoverian dynasty and this attracted many more Italian artists and musicians to Britain.
Second World War
When the dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on the Allies in June 1940, angry mobs attacked Italian restaurants and ice-cream parlours. Many Italians living in Britain were interned. Amongst some of the Italians interned were Mussolini's left-wing opponents who had fled to Britain after being involved in anti-fascist activities in Italy.
Italians were held in various camps all over the country. Eventually, like other refugees, they would appear before tribunals individually, which had them classified into one of three groupings: A class aliens were interned, B class aliens were allowed to leave the camps but had certain restrictions placed upon their movements, and the vast majority of refugees, identified as C class aliens, were allowed to go free. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, ordered the arrest of over 2,000 male aliens living in coastal areas on 12 June 1940. A few days later all B class aliens were placed into internment camps. The author, H. G. Wells, joined the campaign against this, and accused the Home Office of being run by "Nazi sympathisers". He pointed out that a large number of those interned had a long record of being involved in anti-fascist activities in Germany and Italy. Many of these people were deported to Canada and Australia after the War Cabinet had decided to expel them.[5]
The 1,500 ton SS Arandora Star set sail from Liverpool bound for Canada early on 1 July 1940. On 2 July at 07:00 am the ship was torpedoed 125 miles west of Ireland by the German U Boat 47 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien. The Arandorra Star sank within 30 minutes, with a loss of over 700 lives. The sinking was, and still is, the most tragic event in the history of the Italian community: no other Italian community in the world has suffered such a blow.[6] On the 19 July the Home Secretary, wrote a letter to Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, in which he made it clear that he realised mistakes had been made in selecting Italians for the Arandora Star.[7] Lord Snell was charged with conducting a government inquiry into the tragedy. He recognised that the method of selecting dangerous Italians was not satisfactory and the result was that among those earmarked for deportation were a number of non-fascists and people whose sympathies lay with Britain.[8]
Post-War to the present
See also: Lists of U.K. locations with large Italian populations
The region of the country containing the most Italian Britons is London, where there are over 50,000 people of Italian origin live [1], Manchester, where 25,000 Italians live [2], Bedford, where there are over 14,000 people of Italian origin living,[9] and Peterborough has the highest concentration of Italian immigrants in the UK. This is mainly as a result of labour recruitment in the 1950s by the London Brick Company in the southern Italian regions of Puglia and Campania. By 1960 approximately 7,500 Italian men were employed by London Brick in Bedford and a further 3,000 in Peterborough.[10] In 1962 the Scalabrini Fathers, who first arrived in Peterborough in 1956, purchased an old school and converted it into a church named after the patron saint of workers San Giuseppe. By 1991 over 3,000 christenings of second-generation Italians had been carried out there.[11]
Famous Italian Britons
Main article: List of Italian Britons
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Chile | | Date: The 20th Century | Notes: Italian Chilean
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Italian Chilean
Italo-chileno
Claudia Conserva . Fernando Alessandri . Nicole Natalino
Total population
800,000[1]
According to other estimations, many Italo-Argentines settled mainly in Chile, plus 600,000 of Chilean having Italian ancestry.
5% of Chile's population.
Regions with significant populations
Chile
Languages
Chilean Spanish, Italian
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Italians
Italian Chileans (In Spanish: Italochileno, Italian: Italo-cileno) are Chileans of Italian descent. The Chilean census officially states 150,000 Chileans of Italian descent, but could be 3 to 4 times the number or above 600,000, due to the census using Italian surnames to identify those of Italian descent. According to other estimates, Italian Chileans reach 800,000 residents with some Chileans (distant or close) Italian ancestry, including Italo-Argentinian transplanted in Chile. One of the notable Italian influences in Chile is, for example, the sizable amount of Italian surnames of a proportion of Chilean politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, of whom a good number intermarried into the "Castilian-Basques" elites.
Italian Chileans along with French Chileans contributed to the development, cultivation and ownership of the world-famous Chilean wines from haciendas in the Central Valley ever since the first wave of Italians arrived to colonial Chile in the early 19th century.
Although being just a fraction of the size of the migration to Argentina, Italian immigration to Chile has been present since the arrival of the first Spaniards into the country, like captain Giovanni Battista Pastene who helped Pedro de Valdivia's expedition. Thence, with akin Latin culture, Italians have helped forge the nation, with architects (Gioacchino Toesca), painters (Camilo Mori), businessmen (Anacleto Angelini), Economists (Vittorio Corbo) and statesmen (Arturo Alessandri).
In an unusual manner, since Italian immigration was never massive or organized, the only case of concerted immigration appeared in the town of Capitán Pastene, in the Araucanía region in southern Chile, where in 1904, 23 families from Emilia-Romagna were left at their own device after being wrongfully enticed to the "riches" of Chile. Today, this small town celebrates a renaissance of their Italic heritage.
History
Italian emigration in Chile was limited to a few tens of Italians during the centuries of the Spanish colony.
After independence, the Chilean government encouraged European emigration, but without getting the results from the nearby Argentina.
However, there was a substantial flow of migration Liguria to the area of Valparaíso, which came to control 70% of the city. These immigrants founded the 'Body of Fire' (called "Cristobal Colon") of the city and its' Italian School ', whose building has been declared by the Government of Chile "Monumento Histórico Nacional. [2]
La Plaza Baquedano of Santiago Chile is commonly calledPiazza Italia
At the end of the nineteenth century many Italian merchants are rooted in the northern part of Arica, where they began exploiting the rich mines of saltpetre. Meanwhile, many Italian families settled in the capital Santiago, a Concepción and Punta Arenas.
In 1904 was planned emigration of 700 immigrants Emilia in a town of 'Araucanía, which was named "Colonia Nueva Italia" and now called Capitan Pastene.
Throughout the central-southern zone of Chile is transplanted to the early XX Italiani 7.700. [3]
Some Italian-Chilean voluntarily returned to Italy, like the aviator Arturo Dell'Oro died skies of Belluno in 1917, which is headed to Valparaiso one of the main Italian schools in Chile
After World War I is exhausted migration from 'Italy, in Chile and currently there are only 39,650 Italian citizens (including those with dual passports). [4]
Many Italian-Chilean, estimated at over 150,000 currently [5], have reached positions of leadership in the society of Chile, like the president Jorge Alessandri.
according to other estimates reach 800,000 residents with some Chileans (distant or close) Italian ancestry, including the Italian-Argentine transplanted in Chile
[edit] Italian Community
The Italian community has been present since the times of Giovanni Battista Pastene, which participated in the discovery of Chile to the Spanish crown in the shipment of Pedro de Valdivia.
Since then, Italians have always occupied positions of great importance, also married with members of 'high society Chilean of Spanish origin who ruled Chile This is the case, for example, the wife of Salvador Allende, the Italian Chilean-Hortensia Bussi.
An anecdote demonstrates the importance of Italian culture in the people of Chile: the influence of a shoemaker genovese, named Giovanni De Marchi on Salvador Allende. Indeed, the President Allende said the journalist Régis Debray that De Marchi had a strong influence on its policy of training adolescent. [6]: ((Quote |Just finished classes went to speak to this anarchist who had a great deal of influence on my life as a boy. He was sixty, or perhaps sixty years, and would chat with me. I was taught to play chess, I spoke of things of political life, and I lent books))
Undoubtedly, the Italian family that has distinguished itself more in Chile is that of Alessandri. In the first th, the parent, Giuseppe Pietro Alessandri Tarzo, came from Tuscany and worked as Consul of the Kingdom of Sardinia in Santiago. Among his descendants there are two presidents of Chile Arturo Alessandri (1920-1925 and 1932-1938) and Jorge Alessandri (1958-1964).
L 'Italo-Chilean Claudia Conserva, actress and TV presenter
Among the Italian-Chilean will have the most illustrious architects (as Gioacchino Toeschi), painters (as Camilo Mori), industrial (as Anacleto Angelini), actresses (like Claudia Conserva), economists (as Vittorio Corbo) and statesmen ( as the President Arturo Alessandri and his son).
The English is promoted by the Chilean section ofDante Alighieri, while the Italian press has with:
* The GazetteItaliana in Chile, bimonthly (Santiago de Chile), Director Nadir Moroso.
* Presence, fortnightly (Providence, 1969), publisher and editorial director Giuseppe Tommasi (Scalabrini Fathers).
There are some Italian schools in Chile (the most important are located in Santiago, the "Victor Montiglio" [1] and Valparaiso, the "Arturo Dell'Oro" [http:/ / www.scuolaitalianavalpo.cl/scuolavalpo/]) and some organizations protect and serve the Italian community. [7]
Capitan Pastene
In the southern Chilean town named Capitan Pastene is currently a small concentration of 2,200 Italo-Chilean, who constitute almost all of the local population and maintain a few words of Italian dialect of their ancestors emigrated.
Indeed, in 1904 about 100 families from the province of Modena moved there, as organized by the Chilean Government to populate a newly pacified by Chilean troops in their war against the tribes araucana. [8]
These families founded the "Colonia Nueva Italia", which currently is called Capitan Pastena and that is experiencing a revival of tourism based on the culture still present in the town.
Notable Italian Chileans
* Arturo Alessandri liberal politician, senator, President of Chile
* Fernando Alessandri politician
* Gustavo Alessandri Balmaceda politician
* Hernan Alessandri politician, lawyer
* Jorge Alessandri politician, President of Chile
* Anacleto Angelini businessman
* Carla Ballero model
* Francisco Bartolucci politician, lawyer
* Ernesto Belloni actor, comedian
* Vicente Bianchi pianist
* Cecilia Bolocco Miss Universe 1987, model, TV hostess
* Diana Bolocco TV hostess
* Hortensia Bussi First Lady of Chile, wife of President Salvador Allende
* Silvio Caiozzi film director
* Margarita "Maggie" Campos Buquelli singer
* Julio Canessa, military, politician
* Leo Caprile TV host
* Pedro Carcuro TV host
* Brenda Carpenetti musician
* Marcelo Comparini TV host
* Claudia Conserva TV hostess
* Fabrizio Copano TV host, comedian
* Nicolás Copano TV host
* Vittorio Corbo President of the Central Bank of Chile
* Nicolás Corvetto football (soccer) player
* Luz Croxatto actress
* Jaime Davagnino TV productor
* Mercedes Ducci TV hostess
* Ignacio Franzani TV host
* Carlo de Gavardo moto driver
* Javier di Gregorio football (soccer) goalkeeper
* Misael Escuti football (soccer) player
* Giovanni Falchetti singer
* Armando Galasso singer
* Eduardo Gatti singer
* Humberto Giannini philosopher
* Paola Gianinni actress
* Guido Girardi politician
* Claudia Di Girólamo actress
* Claudio Di Girólamo artist, painter
* Luis Gnecco actor
* Fernando González Ciuffardi, tennis player
* Coca Guazzini actress
* Aline Küppenheim Gualtieri actress
* Berta Lasala actress
* Gladys Lucavecchi singer
* Angelo Macchiavello musician
* Beatriz Marinello chess player
* Manuela Martelli actress
* Macarena Mina model, Miss Chile 1989
* Leslie Masserano singer
* Nicole Natalino singer
* Marlen Olivari model
* Soledad Onetto journalist, TV hostess
* Antonella Orsini actress
* Aldo Parodi actor
* Ítalo Passalacqua journalist
* Giovanni Batista Pastene explorer
* Manuel Pellegrini former football (soccer) player, trainer
* José Perotti painter
* Leonardo Perucci actor
* Giancarlo Petaccia TV host
* Angelo Pierattini musician
* Osvaldo Puccio politician, diplomat
* Eduardo Ravani actor
* Virginia Reginato mayor of Viña del Mar
* Johanna Rezzio singer
* Antonella Ríos Mascetti actress
* Susana Roccatagliata TV hostess, writer
* Ricardo Rozzi biologist, philosopher
* Álvaro Scaramelli musician
* Aldo Schiappacasse TV presenter
* Pablo Striano actor, philosopher
* Gianina Talloni voice actress
* Andrea Tessa singer
* Gioacchino Toesca architect
* Cristopher Toselli football (soccer) goalkeeper
* Manuel Trucco politician, diplomat, senator
* Marcela Vacarezza TV hostess
* Soledad Vacarezza journalist
* Guido Vecchiola actor
* Macarena Venegas Tassara lawyer, judge
* Mathias Vidangossy football (soccer) player
* Giancarlo Zolezzi swimmer
See also
* Chile-Italy relations
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Chile | | Date: The 20th Century | Notes: Immigration
Immigrants were important to the evolution of Chilean society and Chile as a nation. Basque families arrived from Spain and regions in the south of France. Who migrated to Chile in the 18th century vitalized the economy and joined the old Castilian aristocracy to become the political elite that still dominates the country.[87] Chileans of Basque descent are estimated at 10% (1,600,000) or as high as 27% (4,500,000) of the Chilean population.[88][89][90][91][92] Some non-Spanish European immigrants arrived in Chile mainly to the northern and southern extremities of the country during the 19th and 20th centuries, including English, Germans, Irish, Italians, French, Croatians, and former Yugoslavians.[93][94] The prevalence of non-Hispanic European surnames among the governing body of modern Chile are a testament to their disproportionate contribution and influence on the country. Also worth mentioning are the Croatians, were the most numerous Chile has an estimated 380,000 with the highest number of descendants of Croats.[95][96] and especially Palestinian communities, the latter being the largest colony of that people outside of the Arab world.[97][98][99] The volume of immigrants from neighboring countries to Chile during those same periods was of a similar value.[94]
Houses on the hills of Valparaíso.
After independence and during the republican era, English and Irish descendants between 350,000 to 420,000.[100], Italian, and French merchants established themselves in the growing cities of Chile and incidentally joined the political or economic elites of the country. In 1848 an important and sizable German immigration took place, laying the foundations of a present German-Chilean community. Sponsored by the Chilean government with aims of colonising the southern region. These Germans (which included German-speaking Swiss, Silesians, Alsatians and Austrians), markedly influenced the cultural composition of the southern of Chile. During the second half of the 19th century was exceptional. Small numbers of displaced eastern European Jews and Christian Syrians and Palestinians fleeing the Ottoman Empire arrived in Chile. Today they spearhead financial and small manufacturing operations.[101] Greeks have also immigrated to Chile and have formed a notable ethnic identity[102] .Greeks Estimated to be descendants from 90,000 to 120,000[103] Most of them live either in the Santiago area or in the Antofagasta area. Chile is one of the 5 countries with more descendants of Greeks in the world.[104]
European immigration, and to a lesser degree in the Middle East, produced during the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (large "waves" in America), after corresponding to the Atlantic coasts of the Southern Cone ( that is, Argentina, Uruguay and South Brazil), was the most significant Latin America is favored mainly by the intense traffic that is produced through extreme south of the country until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1920, although other numbers came from Argentina, across the Cordillera.
Currently, immigration from neighboring countries to Chile is greatest.[105][106] Chile’s 2002 census counted 184,464 immigrants in the country, 26 percent of whom were from Argentina, 21 percent from Peru and 6 percent from Bolivia.[107] Emigration of Chileans has decreased during the last decade: It is estimated that 857,781 Chileans live abroad, 50.1% of those being in Argentina, 13.3% in the United States, 8.8% in Brazil, 4.9% in Sweden, and around 2% in Australia.[108][109]
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Peru | | Date: The 20th Century | Notes: Italian Peruvian
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Italian Peruvian
Notable Italian Peruvians
Francisco Bolognesi
Antonio Raimondi
Flag of Italy Flag of Peru
Total population
600,000 (close or partial ancestry)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Lima, Lambayeque, Arequipa, Callao (La Punta District), Tacna, Trujillo, Ica
Languages
Spanish, Italian
Religion
Roman Catholic
An Italian Peruvian is a Peruvian citizen of Italian descent. The phrase may refer to someone born in Peru of Italian descent or to someone who has immigrated to Peru from Italy. Among European Peruvians, Italians were the second largest group of immigrants to settle in the country.
History
Between years 1532 and 1560, 50 italians established in Lima (Viceroyalty of Peru) and Callao, mostly from Liguria and Tuscany, such as Martin from Florence, Pietro Catagno, Pietro Martín from Sicily (all of them involved in Atahualpa's capture), Juan Bautista Pastene, born in Genoa in 1505 and also present since the beginning of the Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire. It’s worthy to say that, in 1584, the first printing press was brought to the Viceroyalty of Peru by an italian named Antonio Ricciardi Pedemontanus.
Radicati di Primeglio has done an exhaustive research about italians in Lima and he found the well-documented existence of 343 italians in Lima between years 1532 and 1650 (this number can vary because many italians were not registered). From these 343 italians: 124 were from Genoa, 28 from Venice, 28 from Corsica, 15 from Naples, 11 from Milan, 10 from Rome, 5 from Sicily and the rest from other italian states. Italians from Genoa used to work in the transport of passengers and merchandises between Callao and other Viceroyalty harbors to Panama. We can mention to Captains Giustiniani y Vicenzo Pascuale, who founded many navigation and trade enterprises between Callao and Valparaiso; Giovanni di Malta, Nicolo da Bonifilio, Alvaro Pastrello, Giovanni Gaetano; Enrique Porri from Milan, Lucas de Astra from Genoa; Nicoroso y Marcos Corso, captain Alessandro Malaspina.
There were also marines from Venice and from the Aegean Islands, like Pedro from Heraklion and Francisco from Cyprus (these places were under the venetian dominion from 1204 to 1669); Anello Oliva, Ludovico Bertonio, Francesco Carletti, and the Prince of Santo Buono and Viceroy of Peru; Carmine Nicolao Caracciolo, born in Naples and Dr. Federico Bottoni who published a treaty about sanguineous circulation, in 1723.
During the last decades of spanish dominion in Perú, the number of italians in Peru grew faster than in previous centuries (most of them came from Genoa). The richest ones were related to the marine commerce while the rest of italians worked at small family-run business (such as grocery stores) or in larger enterprises along with their fellow Italians, as they were relatively skilled.
While most italians settled in the main cities, a group of sicilian and genovese fishers established in Chucuito, Callao
The pioneers of the italian immigration to Peru were Antonio Dagnino, who established in Callao in 1802 and Felix Valega, who arrived, in 1806. The same ship brought to the musician Andrea Bolognesi, father of the Peruvian National Hero "Francisco Bolognesi".
The first wave of italian immigration to Peru occurred during the period 1840-1880 (the "Guano" Era): not less than 15,000 italians arrived to Peru during this period (without counting the non-registered italians) and established mainly in the coastal cities, especially, in Lima and Callao. They came, mostly, from the northern states (Liguria, Piedmont, Tuscany and Lombardy). Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived to Peru in 1851, as well as other italians who participated in the Milan rebellion like Giuseppe Eboli, Steban Siccoli, Antonio Raimondi, Arrigoni, etc.
In 1872, the Sociedad de Inmigración Europea ("European Immigration Society") was founded in Peru. Its objective was promoting Old World immigration by covering the costs of their journeys and financially supporting them during their first settler years in Peru.
A massive influx was expected, however, during these new waves of italian immigration, approximately, 47,000 italians arrived to Peru, mostly from Liguria, Lombardy, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. After this period, the number of arrivals from Italy decreased until the beginning of the World War II.
Many Italian Peruvians intermarried and many Italian Peruvian families are related. Most Italian Peruvians live in the metropolitan area of Lima and the coastal cities. The peruvian cuisine has been largely influenced by the italian cuisine.
Italian Peruvian institutions and associations
* Colegio Antonio Raimondi
* Asociación de descendientes de Italianos en el Perú
* Instituto Cultural Italo-Peruano
* Società Italiana d'IStruzione "Scuola Santa Margherita".
* Associazione Lombardi del Peru
* Associazione Liguri del Peru
* Associazione Siciliani del Peru
* Circolo Sportivo Italiano. Societta Canottieri "ITALIA"
* Circolo Tentrino di Lima
* Associazione Nazionale Alpini
* Associazione Piemontesi del Perú
* Associazione Toscana del Perú
* Associazione Sarda del Perú
* Associazione Veneti nel Mondo
* Camera di Comercio Italiana
* Societá Italiana di Benefincenza e Assitenza (SIBA)
* Asociación Italiana Peruana Monopoli-Bari "Regione Puglia".
Famous Italian Peruvians
* Luis Giampietri Vice-president of Peru
* Alessandra Denegri Martinelli model, actress
* Santiago Roncagliolo novelist and journalist
* Mariela Balbi journalist, tv host
* Kareen Spano actress, writer
* Luis Solari politician, lawyer
* Francisco Bolognesi National heroe
* Alberto Isola actor, theatre director
* Francesco Petrozzi lyric tenor
* Gian Marco Zignago singer
* Maritere Braschi tv host
* Gloria Maria Solari actress
* Pilar Brescia actress
* Guillermina Maggiolo director of the National Symphony Orchestra
* Sandra Plevisani cheff, tv host
* Clelia Francesconi model, actress
* Maritza Picasso tv host
* Jorge Chiarella actor, journalist, writer and classic composer
* Ricky Tosso actor, theatre director
* Natalia Parodi tv host, actress
* Maria Pia Copello tv host
* Monica Rossi actress
* Ricardo Cavenecia Lo Priore businessman
* Alessandra Zignago model
* Luis Sanguinetti musician
* Bruno Ascenzo actor
* Giovanni Ciccia actor
* Emilia Drago model, actress
* Mario Poggi Extremadoiro writer
* Gianfranco Brero tv host, actor
* Katerina D’onofrio actress
* Nicolas Fantinato actor
* Guido Lombardi congressman, radio host
* Luciano Figallo musician, composer
* Carina Viteri model
* Pilar Mazzetti politician
* Saskia Bernaola comedist, actress
* Alicia Retto actress
* Homero Cristalli actor, tv host
* Betina Onetto show woman, actress
* Enrique Zileri peruvian journalism association's president
* Drusila Zileri journalist, tv host
* Cécica Bernasconi actress
* Flavio Maestri Soccer Player
* Raul Orlandini automobilistic competitor
* Carlos Cano actor
* Marco Zunino actor
* Renzo Guazzotti actor
* Giovanna Pollarolo poet, essay writer, narrator and guionist
* Sergio Galliani actor
* Vanessa Robbiano actress
* Carlos Di Laura Tennis player
* Daniela Sarfati actress
* Mario Testino photographer
* Tomas Cenzano actor
* Gabriela Billoti actress
* Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli tv host, ex-governor of Lima
* Nancy Cavagnari actress
* Raul Gorriti soccer player
* Sebastian Monteghirfo actor
* René Gastelumendi journalist
* Marco Aurelio Denegri writer
* Maggie Martinelli gymnastic trainer
* Christopher Gianotti actor
* Gabriel Anselmi actor
* Attilia Boschetti actress
* Ana Cecilia Natteri actress
* Enrique Ghersi politician, lawyer
* Pold Gastello actor
* Juana Manuela Gorriti writer
* Romina Vaccarella sexologist
* Renato Rossini actor
* Manuel Scorza novelist
* Lucila Boggiano Mrs World 1989
* José Campodonico actor
* Ezio Oliva singer
* Yola Polastri tv host
* Hugo Gastulo soccer player
* Stefano Tosso actor
* Felipe Sassone writer
* Ana Karina Copello singer
* Bruno Pinasco actor, tv series director
* Julio Marcone actor
* Mario Falcone actor
* Tulio Nicolini firefighter
* Guido Gallia chef
* Amparo Brambilla actress,
* Andres Reggiardo politician
* Ronald Baroni soccer player
* Cristina Aicardi badminton player
* Guillermo Rossini radio host, comedian
* Sofia Bogani actress
* Luis Angel Pinasco actor
* Guillermo Dañino Ribatto writer
* Remigio Hernani Melone politician
* Carolina Cano actress
* Aldo Salvini actor, tv series director
* Luis Cavagnaro writer
* Mauricio Tola actor
* Magda Botteri radio host, actress, singer and teacher
* Mario Bassino photographer
* Alberto Pandolfi politician
* Giancarlo Galliani writer
* Maria Emma Mannarelli writer
* Juan Luis Cipriani archbishop of Lima
* Domenico Chiappe writer
* Chiara Pinasco actress
* Raul Tola journalist, TV host
* Pancho Lombardi movie producer
* Carla Barzotti actress, model
* Angello Bertini actor
* Eduardo Cesti actor
* Marko Ciurlizza soccer player
* Santiago Pedraglio journalist and sociologist
* Mauricio Fernandini journalist
* Giamfranco Castagnola Institution Apoyo's President
* Stephanie Cayo Sanguinetti
* Virna Flores Di Liberto
* Italy-Peru relations
For original text see Wikipedia, "Italian-Peruvian."
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