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These present-day migrant-themed monuments - including the previously mentioned I monumenti all'emigrante i - are decidedly different from Italy's oldest monument related to Italian migration, although not in honor of it, the I Faro degli Italiani d'Argentina i (Lighthouse of the Argentine Italians), the lighthouse situated on Rome's Janiculum Hill. Achille Perelli's monument to Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (1881) in New Orleans; Gaetano Trentanove's Sterling Price Monument (1901) in Springfield, Missouri; Louis Amateis's Spirit of the Confederacy (1908) in Houston; and Leo Lentelli's Robert E. Lee monument (1922) in Charlottesville, Virginia,[10] are just a few Lost Cause monuments designed or executed by Italian immigrant sculptors. 3 These monuments occasionally convey more specific histories, as in the case of Serino (Avellino province, Campania), in which an emigrant monument celebrating all emigrants is also a "commemorazione di un emigrante d'eccezione" (commemoration of an exceptional emigrant), that is, native son Sabato "Sam" Rodia, the builder of the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, a site that can be considered an Italian American monument in its own right. Building Migrant Communities, Building Monuments and Memorials Memorials and monuments marking migrants' movement toward and away from Italy commemorate individuals and communities, achievements and calamities, and lives and deaths. [Extracted from the article] |
