{"id":205988,"date":"2024-05-20T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/?p=205988"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:08:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:08:15","slug":"the-filangieri-franklin-correspondence-a-240-year-long-discourse-between-italy-and-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/2024\/05\/20\/the-filangieri-franklin-correspondence-a-240-year-long-discourse-between-italy-and-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence: A 240-Year Long Discourse Between Italy and the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Program (Department of World Languages &amp; Cultures) and the Coccia Institute were thrilled to collaborate with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in welcoming Professor Amedeo Arena (from the University of Naples &#8220;Federico II&#8221;) to campus!<\/p>\n<p>Americans may know of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s friendship with Filippo Mazzei and the impact it had on Franklin&#8217;s contributions to the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. However, few know of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s correspondence with the greatest representative of Neapolitan Enlightenment, Gaetano Filangeri, and the impact that it had on our nation&#8217;s founding documents.<\/p>\n<p>This in-person talk took place on Friday, April 19th in the Feliciano School of Business, Room 101. Prof. Arena gave a talk on the impact of this important correspondence, which was followed by an engaging Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<p>Grazie ancora to NIAF for this opportunity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian Program (Department of World Languages &amp; Cultures) and the Coccia Institute were thrilled to collaborate with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in welcoming Professor Amedeo Arena (from the University of Naples &#8220;Federico II&#8221;) to campus! Americans may know of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s friendship with Filippo Mazzei and the impact it had on Franklin&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":205991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-56_coccia-enewsletter","category-coccia-news","category-37_coccia-upcoming-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205990,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205988\/revisions\/205990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/coccia-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}