Andrea Canepari and Judith Goode, eds. The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia: History, Culture, People, and Ideas.
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Abstract
It is easy to fall in love with Italy, perhaps even to over-romanticize the land of Dante and Verdi.More counterintuitively, Philadelphia is another locale that surprisingly charms residents or visitors, not least courtesy of South Philadelphia, the site of the Italian Market, Rocky Balboa and the Montagues and Capulets of Passyunk Avenue, Geno's and Pat's Steaks.This edited volume, The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia, therefore, is a welcome exploration of enduring Italian influences on the City of Brotherly Love, including both "high" and folk culture.Some surprising insights into Italian contributions to the city are revealed via stories of business and political prominenti as well as more working-class influences, in an ambitious framework exploring three centuries of Italian accomplishments.The thirty-one chapters in the book are divided into four sections.The first and second sections examine Italian influences during different periods: "Independence and Early Republic" and "The Expanding Industrial Metropolis." Section three, "Made in America, " explores immigration and community formation, and section four is entitled "Contemporary Philadelphia." Some of the cultural cross-pollinations lean towards elite culture, focusing on artistic models somewhat tenuously related to campesino society.Jeffrey Cohen, in "Palladians in Philadelphia, " documents the emulation by wealthy "culturally and socially ambitious Americans of many stripes" of the British aristocracy.The building of residences in the Palladian style "ideally defined classical orders" (33).Architectural ideals of grace and refinement were articulated by Palladio in the late sixteenth-century Venetian republic, evoking the grandeur of ancient Rome.But as Cohen notes, it was the panache of British gentry that Philadelphians were looking to claim in the New World, not necessarily something Italian.Cohen points out that residents of estates such as Cliveden hoped their homes "struck notes of consonance that asserted a social kinship, creating disconnected points in a landscape of gentility" (39).While some builders, and owners, of these estates knew of the Italian connection, the salient connection was to Britain and the tastemakers embraced by that country's landed gentry.Direct Italian influence was felt in the early republic, with Andrea Canepari, former Italian consul general in Philadelphia, tracing the enduring
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.015 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".