Vitaliano Rotellini and the defense of the Italian immigration in Brazil: The Fanfulla's Almanacco

Abstract

This article aims to draw a biographical route of the Italian journalist Vitaliano Rotellini, founder and director-owner of the newspaper Fanfulla between 1893 and 1910. The Italian press in Sao Paulo corresponded in number of titles, drawing and reception to the significant presence of Italian immigrants and created a vehicle for maintenance of the so called italianidade. On this way it will be approached the Rotellini initial proximity to the anarchism, abandoned for a self-definition and a direction for his periodic as a political dominant stream colonial newspaper, it means, defender of the immigrants concerns, close to the liberal position, hegemonic between the coffee planters. On this analysis is emphasized the Almanacco Il Brasile e gli italiani edited by the journal in 1906, a work for propaganda to little studied, which marked decisively the director and the newspaper commitment to the Paulista Republican Party and its migratory policy. The approach also includes some cultural exchanges between the Italian press and Fanfulla.