L’Iride Italiana: Italianity in the nineteenth-century Brazil

ABSTRACT

This paper presents initial studies on the bilingual newspaper L’Iride Italiana, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1854 by the Italian poet and professor Alessandro Galleano Ravara. It is intended to analyze its historical and discursive values present in its ideological project, which embodies a cultural symbolic heritage shared amongst its readers, in order to create an identity image of the Italians in Brazilian territory - the concept of Italianity.

Keywords:
Italianity; Immigration Press; Italian culture; Nineteenth Century Brazil