Amy Bernardy

Italian journalist

Amy Bernardy

Amy Bernardy, from the 1908 yearbook of Smith College

Born| January 16, 1880

Florence

Died| 1959

Rome

Occupation(s)| Journalist, ethnographer, folklorist, writer, lecturer

Amy Allemand Bernardy (January 16, 1880 – October 1959) was an Italian journalist, folklorist, ethnographer, and writer.

## Early life and education

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Amy Bernardy was born in Florence, the daughter of an Irish-American diplomat and an Italian mother. She was educated at l'Istituto di Studi Superiore in Florence, graduating in 1901 with a thesis on the history of Turkish-Venetian relations. Her academic mentor was Pasquale Villari; he was president of the Dante Alighieri Society, and she was the society's vice president.

## Career

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Bernardy was a lecturer on Italian subjects at Smith College in Massachusetts from 1903 to 1910.[1][2] While in America, she wrote for American and Italian newspapers and magazines.[3] She was commissioned by the Italian government to report on the effects of emigration on Italian-born women and their children in North America,[4][5] including a visit to Ellis Island,[6] and studies of regional differences[7] and of "Little Italy" neighborhoods in American and Canadian cities.[8][9][10] She presented her findings at a conference on Italian ethnography in 1910.[11] She also studied Italian expatriate communities in Turkey[12] and in the West Indies. She returned to the United States from 1917 to 1920, to work at the Italian embassy in Washington, D.C., during World War I.[13]

Bernardy spoke against women's suffrage and for protections for workers' families, on a lecture tour of the United States in 1910.[14] She taught at the University of Florence in the 1930s,[15] and toured in Canada as a speaker on Italian social issues and expatriates, especially on education, in 1934.[16][17] On that tour, she defended the policies of Italy's fascist government,[15] and dismissed criticisms against it as being based on 'fables'.[18]

## Publications

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* L'ultima guerra turco-veneziana (1902)[19]
* Venezia E Il Turco Nella Seconda Meta Del Secolo XVII (1902)
* Zampogne e cornamuse nel secolo d'Elisabetta (1902)
* America vissuta (1911)
* Italia randagia attraverso gli Stati Uniti (1913)[20]
* L'Istria e la Dalmazia (1915)[21]
* La Via dell' Oriente (1916)
* "The War Service of Italian Women" (1919)[22]
* "The Adriatic 'Irredenta'" (1919)[23]
* La questione adriatica vista d'oltre Atlantico (1917-1919) (1923)[24]
* Paese che vai; il mondo come l'ho visto io (1923, an autobiography)
* Forme e colori di vita regionale italiana (1926)
* Santa Caterina da Siena (1926)
* Istria e Quarnaro (1927)
* La vita e l'opera di Vittoria Colonna (1927)
* Zara e i monumenti italiani della Dalmazia (1928)
* Rinascita regionale (1930)
* Passione italiana sotto cieli stranieri (1931)

## Personal life

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Bernardy died in 1959, in Rome.[25]

## References

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1. ^ "Amy Allemand Bernardy". Smith College Finding Aids. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
2. ^ Smith College, Class of 1908(1908 yearbook): 15. via Internet Archive
3. ^ "Smith College Teacher Helps Italian Immigrants". The Boston Globe. 1907-05-26. p. 46. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ Gabaccia, Donna R.; Iacovetta, Franca (2002-01-01). Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World. University of Toronto Press. pp. 353–360\. ISBN 978-0-8020-8462-0.
5. ^ Sorte, Michael A. La; Sorte, Michael La (2010-06-04). La Merica: Images Of Italian Greenhorn Experience. Temple University Press. p. 160\. ISBN 978-1-4399-0392-6.
6. ^ Sorte, Michael A. La; Sorte, Michael La (2010-06-04). La Merica: Images Of Italian Greenhorn Experience. Temple University Press. pp. 45–46\. ISBN 978-1-4399-0392-6.
7. ^ Serra, Ilaria (2009). The Imagined Immigrant: Images of Italian Emigration to the United States Between 1890 and 1924. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 25–26, 46–48\. ISBN 978-0-8386-4198-9.
8. ^ Tirabassi, Maddalena (2017-10-05). Connell, William J.; Pugliese, Stanislao G. (eds.). The Little Italies of the Early 1900s. Routledge Handbooks Online. doi:10.4324/9780203501856. ISBN 978-0-415-83583-1. S2CID 186664341.
9. ^ Robin, Ron (2018-01-12). Signs of Change: Urban Iconographies in San Francisco, 1880-1915. Routledge. pp. 9–10\. ISBN 978-1-351-13749-2.
10. ^ Wood, Patricia K. (2004-06-03). Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 23\. ISBN 978-0-7735-2370-8.
11. ^ Bernardy, Amy Allemand; Tirabassi, Maddalena (2005). Ripensare la patria grande: gli scritti di Amy Allemand Bernardy sulle migrazioni italiane, 1900-1930 (in Italian). C. Iannone. ISBN 978-88-516-0067-9.
12. ^ "Il ritorno di Amy Bernardy dalle 'Piccolo Italie' d'Oriente". L'Italia. 1914-06-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
13. ^ Tirabassi, Maddalena (2014-04-01). Cinotto, Simone (ed.). Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities. Fordham University Press. p. 60\. ISBN 978-0-8232-5627-3.
14. ^ "America Barbarous, 'New Woman' Says". The San Francisco Examiner. 1910-02-23. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
15. ^ a b "Distinguished Italians Here Feb. 6, 7, and 8 for Addresses". Edmonton Journal. 1934-01-31. p. 17. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
16. ^ Wood, Patricia K. (2004-06-03). Nationalism from the Margins: Italians in Alberta and British Columbia. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-2370-8 – via Newspapers.com.
17. ^ "Italian Women Dominated by Spirit of Service Told by Signorina Amy Bernardy". The Winnipeg Tribune. 1934-02-02. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
18. ^ "Balbo Jealousy Story Unfounded". The Gazette. 1934-03-02. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-02-28 – via Newspapers.com.
19. ^ Bernardy, Amy Allemand (1902). Amy A. Bernardy. L'Ultima guerra turco-veneziana (MDCCXIV-MDCCXVIII) (in Italian). Stab. Tip. G. Civelli.
20. ^ Bernardy, Amy A. (1913). Italia randagia attraverso gli Stati Uniti. Torino : F. Bocca.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
21. ^ Bernardy, Amy A. (1915). L'Istria e la Dalmazia (in Italian). Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche.
22. ^ Bernardy, Amy A. (1919). "The War Service of Italian Women". The Journal of American History. 13 (1): 61–70.
23. ^ Bernardy, Amy A. (1919). "The Adriatic 'Irredenta'". The Journal of American History. 13 (3&4): 358–361.
24. ^ Bernardy, Amy A.; Falorsi, Vittorio (1923). La questione adriatica vista d'oltre Atlantico (1917-1919) ricordi e documenti (in Italian). N. Zanichelli.
25. ^ Dompè, Giovanna (1960). "LUTTI: Amy A. Bernardy". Lares. 26 (3/4): 164–166\. ISSN 0023-8503. JSTOR 26239733.

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