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Italy in the Age of Pinocchio

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781403983022

ISBN: 978-1-349-53426-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 20, 2015

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Introduction

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 1 –13

[Near the beginning of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio,1 Geppetto comes to Maestro Ciliegia with an idea: I thought of making myself a fine wooden puppet; but a wonderful puppet who can dance, and fence, and make daredevil leaps. I intend to travel around the world with...
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Abandoned Children

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 15 –49

[On May 22, 1897, La Libertà a progressive Catholic evening newspaper in Naples, announced that it had just received a shocking report on the Neapolitan foundling home, the Casa dell’Annunziata.1Just as we were going to press, we received a copy of the Medical and Administrative Investigation of...
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Emigrating Children

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 51 –83

[Maria Paretta, tall, well-built, black-haired with a rosy, freckled complexion, regular nose and small mouth, ran away from her home in Naples on September 8, 1903 at the age of 16. Attempts by the police to find her proved fruitless until, in November, her father received a letter from a friend...
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Working Children

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 85 –122

[United Italy passed its first Child Labor Law in 1886. According to that law, children under the age of 9 could not work in industrial factories, quarries, or mines (see table 3.1). In addition, those under 10 could not work below ground, and those under 15 were banned from dangerous or...
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Children behind Bars: Reformatories and Juvenile Delinquency

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 123 –163

[As far as reformatory life went, Amilcare Mariani, an 18 year-old from Rome, had things pretty well figured out. He was an operator. Probably transferred from the more rigorous and prison-like La Generala in Turin he was, in late 1897, a privileged inmate at the recently opened reformatory for...
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Salviamo il fanciullo!

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 165 –195

[“It is deplorable that in this our Italy misery is such that some individuals force young children to beg in the streets, children dressed in rags and who are so hungry and malnourished they cannot help but inspire compassion.” (Onorevole Francesco Coccapieller to fellow garabaldino and Prime...
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Epilogue

Ipsen, Carl

Pages: 197 –206

[The preceding chapters have traversed the geography, chronology, sources, and nature of child anxiety in turn of the century Italy. By way of conclusion, we can return to that aspect of popular culture with which we began, namely children’s books. In some ways, the reflections they offer on...

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