Da Tabacco a Speranza: storia di un padre e un figlio negli Stati Uniti
Tra identità veneta e assimilazione americana (1877-1927)
Abstract
This essay traces the lives of Carlo Leonardo Speranza and his son Gino, prominent figures in New York’s Italian community around the turn of the twentieth century. Carlo, born in Verona as Leonardo Augusto Tabacco, left Italy in 1877 amid financial and legal troubles and reinvented himself in the United States, becoming a scholar of Romance languages. Gino, born in 1873, pursued a legal career and helped build institutions for Italian immigrants, but in the 1920s he embraced more restrictive, nativist views. Their trajectories reveal contrasting paths of mobility and assimilation within the Italian American experience.
Submitted: April 20, 2025 | Accepted: Sept. 7, 2025 | Published Dec. 10, 2025 | Language: it
Keywords Veneto • Italian American History • Migration • United States • <div>Migration • </div>
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