Orgoglio e Memoria: Emigrazione dal Meridione Exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute in NYC

Celebrating the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi at Our Lady of Peace Church in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Beautifully decorated High Altar

A look at the traditional Eucharistic Procession following the Tridentine Mass at Our Lady of Peace Church in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Sunday's Eucharistic Procession slowly made its way around the parish

The Host was exposed for veneration

Three station altars with flowers were set up along the route.
Kneeling in adoration, incense was burned before the Eucharist

Photo of the Week: A View Across the Moorish Style Court or Cloister at Villa Rufolo in Ravello

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

Feast of San Barnaba

San Barnaba, ora pro nobis

June 11th is the Feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle, Bishop, and Martyr. While not one of the twelve apostles, St. Barnabas was a man of such virtue and faith he is revered as such. Counted among the first faithful, he exhorted the recently converted Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul the Apostle) to evangelize the nations. First, traveling to the Asia Minor, St. Barnabas preached the Gospel in Antioch. He later participated in the Council of Jerusalem, traveled to Rome with St. Peter, and converted many to the Faith in Milan, where he is considered the city’s first Bishop. It is said, during his journey to Milan the snow melted and flowers bloomed along the way. Returning to his native Cyprus, he was accused of blasphemy and stoned to death in Salamis by Syrian Jews in the year 61.

In celebration, we’re posting a prayer to St. Barnabas. The accompanying photo comes courtesy of Father Eugene Carrella. The holy card is part of Father Carrella’s impressive collection of religious artifacts. Evviva San Barnaba!

Prayer to St. Barnabas

O God, who decreed that Saint Barnabas, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, should be set apart to convert the nations, grant that the Gospel of Christ, which he strenuously preached, may be faithfully proclaimed by word and by deed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

New Music — Giuseppe Scarlatti: I Portentosi Effetti Della Madre Natura

New music that may be of interest to our readers.

• Giuseppe Scarlatti: I Portentosi Effetti Della Madre Natura performed by Dorothee Oberlinger

Label: Sony Import
Release Date: May 27, 2023
Audio CD: $36:99
Number of Discs: 2

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Around the Web: New Essay on Augusto Del Noce at Genealogies of Modernity

The Occupation That Never Ended

By Matthew Scarince

Salvatore Giuliano is the story of a corpse. The film begins with the shocking revelation that Giuliano, the eponymous Sicilian bandit and folk hero, has been murdered. The narration takes us back to the events of 1945, the end of the Second World War and the island’s doomed bid for independence. Despite the almost documentary-style realism with which the director, Francesco Rosi, approaches his art, Giuliano remains faceless and obscured, always filmed from behind or at a distance, always marked out by his signature coat of ghostly white. He is the film’s titular character, but from its very first image he is a man marked for death.

Rosi’s film was released in 1962, nearly a decade before the Italian philosopher and political theorist Augusto Del Noce first published his scathing critique of the modern approach to power politics. Like Rosi, Del Noce is also investigating a corpse, but not that of a single man or mere individual. The body which fascinated the philosopher is the political community, slowly dissected by a new, “scientific” approach to politics. He saw in this approach the danger of a subtler form of totalitarianism, in which “the individual is extinguished and the idea of politics is subsumed within the idea of war, even in peacetime.” This war is not aimed, as were older forms of totalitarianism, at founding or reshaping the world order. Rather, it is directed at the perfect control of a single society, a society without the divisions caused by loyalties to family, to faith, and to traditional forms of morality. Any resistance to the regime’s absolute centralization of control is characterized as a revolt against science and progress. Continue reading

New Book — Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

Forthcoming title that may be of interest to our readers. Available at angelicopress.com

• Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: November 14, 2023

Hardcover: $40.00

Language: English

Pages: 544

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Neapolitan Lessons with Anna Scognamiglio

Photo of the Week: View of the Lattari Mountains from Villa Rufolo in Ravello

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

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A Look at the Napoli Scudetto Block Party Outside Ribalta Ristorante in New York City

Rosario got the party started

After God, Naples.*

After Mass, Real Partenopea returned to Ribalta Ristorante in Manhattan Sunday afternoon to enjoy another delicious Neapolitan meal and watch our beloved Napoli finally lift the championship trophy. Our little troop nestled in among the throng of jubilant supporters who gathered from far and wide to watch Gli Azzuri’s final match of the season against Sampdoria at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples. As the official Napoli Club NYC, Ribalta was the perfect place to go, outside the Capital itself, to celebrate this historic moment. Grazie ragazzi e Forza Napoli Sempre!

(L) Detail of the apse mural inside Our Lady of Peace Church.
(R) Real Partenopea Brooklyn's "Festa Scudetto" invitation

Tifosi gathered en masse to celebrate Napoli's historic victory

Napoli's triumph was celebrated with much fanfare

Roberto Colella

Angelo Venuto

Partygoers danced in the streets

"The South will Rise Again!"

We are the champions!

Everyone had a chance to lift the trophy

Hands down, Ribalta makes the best pizza in NYC

We can't have pizza without beer

Napoli's number one fans

Giuseppe and John

A closer look at John's flair

We are rooting against Fiorentina, Roma and Inter. One down, two to go

The ultimate vanity plate

* Neapolitan slogan quoted from The Passion and the Fashion edited by Steve Redhead, Avebury, 1993, p.93

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Photo of the Week: Villa Rufolo's "Garden of the Soul" in Ravello, Salerno

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

1799: Rivoluzione e Controrivoluzione, ovvero Le Tre Giornate di Napoli

In Napoli

A Look at the Fifteenth Annual Battle of Bitonto Commemoration in New York City

Portrait of King Carlo di Borbone (c.1761) by Anton Raphael Mengs
and The Battle of Bitonto (c.1750) by Giovanni Luigi Rocco

"Go forth and win: the most beautiful crown in Italy awaits you." – Elizabeth Farnese to her son Charles of Bourbon*

Thursday evening, members and friends of the Fratelli della Santa Fede, or Sanfedisti for short, gathered at Amunì Ristorante (7217 3rd Avenue) in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for our Fifteenth Annual Battle of Bitonto convivium in memory of Carlo di Borbone’s decisive victory over the Austrians in Apulia on 25 May 1734 and the subsequent founding of the Bourbon Dynasty of Naples and Sicily (later the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). As always, Chef Vincent Dardanello went above and beyond and treated our characteristically peckish party to another spectacular celebratory meal. His warmth and hospitality are second to none.

Before dinner, members of our small philatelist and numismatist club met up and exhibited a few new and old stamps, coins and medals from our respective collections.

Special thanks to our dear friend Vittorio, who regaled us between courses with a few classic Neapolitan songs and arias. Viva 'o Rre!

* Quoted from The Bourbons of Naples by Harold Acton, Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1957, pg. 17

Stamps with selvage commemorating the 100th
Anniversary of the death of Pope Pius IX, 1978, Vatican

Since it was his feast day, I brought my stamps commemorating the
1100th Anniversary of the death of San Gregorio VII, 1985, Vatican

A handful of coins and medals were on display, including this
1995 commemorative 500 Lire from San Marino and
Daughters of the American Revolution good citizen medal

Medal awarded to the soldiers who fought in the 1849 Campaign
in Sicily by HM King Ferdinando I of the Two Sicilies

Caponata

Carciofi fritti

Arancini

Pasta alla Norma

Braciole stuffed with hard boiled eggs

Cavatelli

Patate e peperoni al forno and braciole di maiale alla brace

Chevalatta over rapini

Gamberi Oreganati

Partygoers were well sated

(Above & below) Vittorio regaled us with a few classic Neapolitan ditties

David and John

Mike and Alexis

Cindy and Isak

John, Maria and Maria

Mike, Vinny and Andrew