Adventurers, Exiles, and Volunteers in the Atlantic World: Italians in Latin America (1789-1898)

Between 1789 and 1898, about a thousand people left the coast of the Italian Peninsula and moved to South America where they were involved in the ongoing revolutions, took part in the wars of independence and contributed to the construction of the new republics. Their biographical experience - in the forms of individual adventurism, political exile and military voluntarism - influenced the ideological formation of the various patriotism, activated new mechanisms of politicization and characterized the creation of trans-national political communities fully inserted in the dynamics of the XIX century globalization. Following a variety of migratory paths, these men turned the Atlantic world in a community of experiences characterized by deep connections between the Old World and the New World