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Contrary to traditional accounts that depict Salvemini’s exile as a period of isolation dedicated solely to scholarly research, Camurri’s volume reveals his importance as a public figure. Not only was he active as a teacher and opinion maker at Harvard University and fully integrated into the intellectual community in Cambridge, he also played a central role in the construction of a network of antifascist European intellectuals in the United States. Salvemini, therefore, emerges as a model figure of a European exile in America.
Camurri’s volume inaugurates a new series, Italiani dall’Esilio, published by Donzelli Editore with the support of Paolo Marzotto, which is dedicated to exploring the history of Italian exiles in the American continent.