Italy, Switzerland, and Home

The Comstocks of Cornell—The Definitive Autobiography ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501716270.003.0013 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 305-322

Author(s):

Anna Botsford Comstock

Keyword(s):

Coast Line ◽

Italian Language ◽

Mountain Ranges ◽

Experiment Station ◽

Good Point

This chapter details Anna Botsford and John Henry Comstock's trip to Italy and Switzerland. The Comstocks went from Greece to Sicily on the German steamship “Baiern,” reaching Taormina on March 8, 1908. It was the most picturesque town they had ever visited, and Aetna seemed to them the most beautiful mountain they had ever seen. They then registered in the Berlitz School for instruction in the Italian language. On one of their last days in Taormina, they climbed Mt. Venere, from the heights of which they had a view of chaotic mountain ranges and peaks, a long coast line, and a blue sea. From Taormina, they traveled to Sorrento, Amalfi, Pompeii, Rome, and Venice. They also went to the Entomological Experiment Station in Florence. After their visits to Verona, Turin, and Bellagio, they were tired and found Locarno a good point for resting. On June 10, the Comstocks took the train for St. Gotthard tunnel.

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Italian Language and Literature

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s003081290013038x ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1299-1302

Author(s):

J. E. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Italian Language ◽

Language And Literature

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The Ethiopian War as Portrayed in the Italian Fascist and Antifascist Press in Tunisia

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430616.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Leila El Houssi

Keyword(s):

Industrial Capitalism ◽

Daily Newspaper ◽

Italian Language ◽

The Impact ◽

Italian Community

This chapter interrogates the confrontation between fascist and antifascist elements within the Italian community in French Tunisia through an analysis of the attitude of the local Italian language press to the ‘Ethiopian Question’. Through the daily newspaper L’Unione and the weekly L’Alba, Italian fascist propaganda focused its efforts on downplaying the impact of the ‘notorious’ Laval–Mussolini agreements of January 1935 and cast the conquest of Ethiopia as a prelude to more important conquests. It was challenged by the antifascist front (anarchists, republicans, communists and Giustizia e Libertà) in Tunisia who, in the pages of the weekly magazine Domani and the clandestine newspaper Il Liberatore, accused the regime of being interested more in the profits of industrial capitalism than in the interests of Italian citizens resident in the country.

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