{"product_id":"lorenzo-and-oonalaska-9781955995016","title":"Lorenzo and Oonalaska","description":"Currently regarded as the earliest Italian American novel, Joseph Rocchietti's Lorenzo and Oonalaska, pub-lished in 1835, offers compelling evidence that the history of Italian American literature is longer, and much more varied and complex than was previously believed. Be-fore Rocchietti's novel was rediscovered at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the prevailing view among scholars of the Italian diaspora in the United States was that the earliest examples of Italian American writing, in the period preceding the 1880-1920 mass immigration wave, came primarily in the form of letters, journals, trav-elogues, poetry, and autobiographies. The origins of Ital-ian American fiction were commonly believed to date back to the publication, in 1885, of Luigi Donato Ven-tura's novella Peppino, probably written in Italian and al-most immediately translated into French and English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Casa Lago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955995016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Joseph Rocchietti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42200699732149,"sku":"9781955995016","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d5dcd197-fdc3-4a7a-baf4-17f9fb95d643.jpg?v=1655219055","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lorenzo-and-oonalaska-9781955995016","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}