Italians in North America before 1880 included a number of explorers, starting with Christopher Columbus, and a few small settlements.[1]
Only some thousands of Italians moved to North America from the discovery until the 1870s, but more than four million Italians arrived after 1880, and about half of them returned to Italy.
- ^ Andrew F. Rolle, The immigrant upraised: Italian adventurers and colonists in an expanding America (Oklahoma UP, 1968) pp. 3–15.
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