Amedeo Arena
Amedeo Arena is a Law Professor at the University of Naples Federico II and serves on the American Philosophical Society’s Committee for the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He has delivered several talks and curated an exhibit focusing on the Filangieri-Franklin correspondence. His archival research prompted the American Philosophical Society to posthumously acknowledge the election of the Neapolitan intellectual Domenico Cirillo as its first Italian member in 1768.
IT and US: The US-Italy Consular Relations at the 230-Year Mark: Uncovering the Connections Between Two Kindred Nations
The establishment of the first U.S. Consulate General in Leghorn in 1794, closely followed by another in Naples in 1796, marks the beginning of consular relations between the USA and pre-unitary Italy. Yet, the roots of this connection delve deeper into the rich soil of intellectual and scientific exchange that predated that institutional connectio...