The two voices of the first Italian Canadian poet: Liborio Lattoni, fascist racial propaganda, and the legacy of Giacomo Leopardi
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Liborio Lattoni (1874–1958) settled in Montreal in 1908 and soon became a champion of Italian patriotic propaganda, both during the Great War and until 1940, when he and his son Mario were interned for being followers of Mussolini's regime. This pioneer of Italian Canadian literature, recreated, through the columns of a fascist periodical and a relentless poetic production spanning from the Thirties to the end of the Fifties, a transnational cultural identity which mixed contemporary politics, racial prejudice, and linguistic testimonies of ethnic belonging through the absorption of both elements of fascist propaganda and the linguistic and stylistic emulation of the fellow marchigiano poet Giacomo Leopardi. This study of Lattoni's poems published in the Italian Canadian ethnic press between the two wars highlights the ambiguous relationship between nationalist and transnational cultural practices and expands the understanding of the uses of literature in fascist propaganda, especially as a counterpoint of key historical events such as the military invasion of Ethiopia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".