The Italian Scapigliatura in New York

Abstract

In 1884, Dario Papa and Ferdinando Fontana, both well known in the milieu of Scapigliatura, published a reportage that is a kind of written photograph of New York at the time. Papa had travelled to America with Fontana to discover the secrets of modern journalism. Another well-known writer of the Scapigliatura, Giuseppe Giacosa, friend of Arrigo Boito and Emilio Praga, travelled to the USA a few years later. Giacosa also wrote a series of interesting travel notes later collected in Impressioni d’America, but here are especially mentioned some articles dedicated to him in the local press and preserved at the New York Public Library.