Publisher: John F. Fugazi; L'Italia Publishing Company.
Languages: Italian.
LC Holdings: 1907: Apr. 18.
Digital Format: Library of Congress Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
LC Location: Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms/Ft. Meade.
Notes: L'Italia was a daily newspaper (except Sundays and Mondays) first under the directorship of Federico Biesta (Turin, Italy, 1824–San Francisco, 1894) and Pio Morbio. Successively, it was taken over and reorganized in 1898 by Ettore Patrizi (Terni, Umbria, Italy, 1869–San Francisco,1946) who became the owner and publisher of the largest Italian American newspaper on the West Coast. As a profascist, Patrizi was expelled from California and attacked by other Italian American periodical editors, like Carmelo Zito (Oppido Mamertina, Calabria, Italy, 1899–Sonoma County, 1980), chief editor of
Il Corriere del Popolo, another relevant San Francisco area Italian American periodical.
L'Eco della patria (founded in 1859) was absorbed by
La Voce del Popolo (1867), which was then absorbed by
L'Italia (1889).
Bibliographic Sources: Caiazza, Tommaso. "“No Mafia Here”: Crime, Race, and the Narrative of San Francisco's Italian American 'Model Colony'."
Italian American Review, 6, no. 1 (2016): 31-53.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/italamerrevi.6.1.0031 External (from the subscription database JSTOR available onsite). De Medici, Marino. "It Was No Witch Hunt."
The Washington Post, January 12, 2000. Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ).
A Survey of the Italian Language Press in the United States. Princeton, NJ: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1942.