Oh Capitano!: Celso Cesare Moreno—Adventurer, Cheater, and Scoundrel on Four Continents

Rudolph J. Vecoli; Francesco Durante

Published by Fordham University Press 2018

Oh Capitano!

Celso Cesare Moreno—Adventurer, Cheater, and Scoundrel on Four Continents

Rudolph J. Vecoli and Francesco Durante
Edited by: Donna R. Gabaccia
Translated by: Elizabeth O. Venditto

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823279890

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About this book

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno, one of the most famous of the emigrant Italian elites or "prominenti." Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, and the conflicts of Americans and natives over the fate of Hawaii, and imperial competitions of French, British, Italian and American governments during a critically important era of imperial expansion.

Celso Cesare Moreno was a schemer on an international level involved in the Hawaiian revolution, a promoter of colonialism in Southeast Asia to the governments of Italy, France, and the U.S., and involved also as a lobbyist in Washington in the "little slaves" /padrone controversies of the 1870s.

Author / Editor information

Vecoli Rudolph J. :

Rudolph J. Vecoli (deceased) was director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.Durante Francesco :

Francesco Durante born in Anacapri, teaches the Culture and Literature of Italian Americans at the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples. As one of Italy’s foremost journalists and literary critics, he has written for various Italian newspapers and journals. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including the groundbreaking Italoamericana. Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1776–1943, in two volumes (the second was published with the same title by Fordham University Press in 2014); Figli di due mondi. Fante, DiDonato & C: narratori italoamericani degli anni Trenta e Quaranta; Scuorno (vergogna); I napoletani; and, together with the late Rudolph J. Vecoli, Oh Capitano! La vita favolosa di Celso Cesare Moreno in quattro continenti. He has edited two volumes of Mondadori’s prestigious Meridiani series on John Fante and Domenico Rea. In addition to various editions of mannerist and baroque poets and American writers, he has translated seven volumes of John Fante, two by Bret Easton Ellis, and other writers such as William Somerset Maugham, George Arnold, and William Dean Howells. Durante is the artistic director of the annual Salerno Literary Festival. His latest book is La letteratura italoamericana (2017).Gabaccia Donna R. :

Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history at University of Toronto and scholar of international migration, gender and food studies. She has written and edited fifteen books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora.Venditto Elizabeth O. :

Elizabeth Venditto formerly managed the Immigrant Stories project at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.Rudolph J. Vecoli (Author)
Rudolph J. Vecoli (deceased) was director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.

Francesco Durante (Author)
Francesco Durante is a journalist as well as Professor of literature at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa as part of the Program in Modern Languages and Culture.

Donna R. Gabaccia (Edited By)
Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history at University of Toronto and scholar of international migration, gender and food studies. She has written and edited fifteen books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora.

Reviews

Donna R. Gabaccia, from the introduction:
“Whether understood as a fake, a scoundrel, a chameleon, an adventurer, a speculator, a renegade, or simply a nut job (and Moreno was, in his lifetime, slapped with all these labels) or instead accepted as a “dreamer” (Moreno’s preferred description of himself, especially when comparing himself grandiosely to Marco Polo or Christopher Columbus), Moreno the man jumps from the pages of this book. The power of biography to illustrate and to illuminate the past and the individual life in its social context should never be underestimated.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
preface Rudolph J. Vecoli Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
prologue Francesco Durante Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction to the English-Language Edition: “Was Moreno a Sociopath?” Donna R. Gabaccia Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Translator’s Note Elizabeth O. Venditto Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
chapter 1. The Traveler’s Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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chapter 3. The Challenge of the Pacific Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
chapter 4. The Little Italian Slaves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
chapter 5. The Enchanter of Hawaii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
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chapter 8. The New Italian America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
chapter 9. The Destiny of Hawaii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: prominenti; trade; imperialism; Asia; Hawaii; Imperial expansion; immigration

eBook

Published: June 5, 2018
ISBN: 9780823279890