Italian Argentine

Italian Argentines ( it, italo-argentini; es, ítalo-argentinos, or ''tanos'' in Rioplatense Spanish) are Italian-born people (born in Argentina or Italy) or non-Italian citizens of Italian descent residing in Argentina. Italian is the largest single ethnic origin of modern Argentines. In 2011, it was estimated that at least 25 million Argentines (62.5% of the country's population) have some degree of Italian ancestry. Argentina has the second-largest community of Italians outside of Italy, after Brazil.

Italians began arriving in Argentina in large numbers from 1857 to 1940, totaling 44.9% of the entire postcolonial immigrant population, more than from any other country (including Spain, at 31.5%). In 1996, the population of Argentines of partial or full Italian descent numbered 15.8 million when Argentina's population was approximately 34.5 million, meaning they represented 45.5% of the population.

Italian settlements in Argentina, along with Spanish settlements, formed the backbone of today's Argentine society. Argentine culture has significant connections with Italian culture in terms of language, customs, and traditions. Argentina is also a strongly Italophilic country as cuisine, fashion, and lifestyle have been sharply influenced by Italian immigration.

History

Small groups of Italians started to immigrate to Argentina as early as the second half of the 18th century. However, the stream of Italian immigration to Argentina became a mass phenomenon only from 1880 to 1920, during the Great European immigration wave to Argentina, peaking between 1900 and 1914, about two million settled from 1880 to 1920, and just 1 million from 1900 to 1914. In 1914, Buenos Aires alone had more than 300,000 Italian-born inhabitants, representing 25% of the total population.
The Italian immigrants were primarily male, aged between 14 and 50 and more than 50% literate; in terms of occupations, 78.7% in the active population were agricultural workers or unskilled laborers, 10.7% artisans, and only 3.7% worked in commerce or as professionals.

The outbreak of World War I and the rise of fascism in Italy caused a rapid fall in immigration to Argentina, with a slight revival in 1923 to 1927 but eventually stopped during the Great Depression and the Second World War.

After the end of World War II, Italy was reduced to rubble and occupied by foreign armies. From 1946 to 1957 was another massive wave of 380,000 Italians to Argentina. A small number of Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians emigrated to Argentina during the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus, leaving their homelands, which were lost to Italy and annexed to Yugoslavia after the Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947.The substantial recovery allowed by the Italian economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s eventually caused the era of Italian diaspora abroad to end, and in the following decades, Italy became a country with net immigration. Now, 527,570 Italian citizens still live in Argentina.

Characteristics of Italian immigration to Argentina

Areas of origin

Most of the Italian immigrants to Argentina came from northern regions. After the turn of the century and the establishment of the North as the dominant region of Italy, immigration patterns shifted to rural Southern Italy, especially Campania, Calabria and Sicily. In Argentine slang, ''tano'' (from ''Napulitano'', "Neapolitan") is still used for all people of Italian descent although it originally meant inhabitants of the former independent state the Kingdom of Naples. The assumption that emigration from cities was negligible has an important exception. Naples went from being the capital of its own kingdom in 1860 to being just another large city in Italy. The loss of bureaucratic jobs and the subsequently declining financial situation led to high unemployment. In the early 1880s, epidemics of cholera also struck the city, causing many people to leave.

According to a 1990 study, the high proportion of returnees can show a positive or negative correlation between regions of origin and of destination. Southern Italians indicate a more permanent settlement. Argentine society's Italian component is the result of
Southern rather than Northern influences.Immigrazione Italiana nell’America del Sud (Argentina, Uruguay e Brasile)
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Culture

Language

According to Ethnologue, Argentina has more than 1,500,000 Italian speakers, making it the third most spoken language in the nation (after Spanish and English). In spite of the great many Italian immigrants, the Italian language never truly took hold in Argentina, partly because at the time of mass immigration, almost all Italians spoke their native languages of Italy, regional languages rather than what is now standard Italian, precluding the expansion of the use of Italian as a primary language in Argentina. The similarity between Spanish and many of those languages also enabled the immigrants to acquire communicative competence in Spanish with relative ease, and thus to assimilate linguistically without much difficulty.

Italian immigration from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century made a lasting and significant impact on the intonation of Argentina's vernacular Spanish. Preliminary research has shown that Rioplatense Spanish, particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of regional Italian, Italian dialects (especially the ones whose substratum is the Neapolitan language) and differ markedly from the patterns of other forms of Spanish. That correlates well with immigration patterns as Argentina, particularly Buenos Aires, which had huge numbers of Italian settlers since the 19th century. According to a study conducted by National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and published in ''Bilingualism: Language and Cognition'' (International Standard Serial Number, ISSN 1366–7289) The researchers note that this is a relatively recent phenomenon, starting in the early 20th century with the main wave of Southern Italian immigration. Until then, the ''porteño'' accent was more similar to that of Spain, particularly Andalusia.

Much of Lunfardo arrived with European immigrants, such as Italians, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, and Poles. Most Italian and Spanish immigrants spoke their regional languages and dialects, rather than Standard Italian or Spanish; other words arrived from the pampa by means of the gauchos; and a few came from Argentina's native population. Most sources believe that Lunfardo originated in jails, as a prisoner-only argot. Around 1900, the word ''lunfardo'' itself, originally a deformation of ''Lombardy, lombardo'' in several languages of Italy, was used to mean "outlaw." Lunfardo words are inserted in the normal flow of Rioplatense Spanish sentences. Thus, a Spanish-speaking Mexican reading tango lyrics needs only the translation of a discrete set of words, not a grammar guide. Most tango lyrics use lunfardo sparsely, but some songs (such as ''El Ciruja'', or most lyrics by Celedonio Flores) employ lunfardo heavily. "Milonga Lunfarda" by Edmundo Rivero is an instructive and entertaining primer on lunfardo usage. Here are some examples:

* ''Parlar'' – To speak (cfr. Italian ''parlare'', Neapolitan language, Neapolitan ''parlà'' - to speak)
* ''Manyar'' – To know / to eat (cfr. Italian ''mangiare'', Sicilian language, Sicilian ''manciari'' - to eat)
* ''Mina'' – Female (cfr. Italian ''femmina'' ("female"), Sicilian language, Sicilian ''fimmina'' ("woman"))
* ''Laburar'' – To work (cfr. Italian ''lavorare'', Venetian language, Venetian ''laorar'' - to work)
* ''Fiaca'' – laziness (cfr. Italian ''fiacco'', Piedmontese language, Piedmontese ''fiach'' - exhausted)
* ''Chapar'' – To kiss / to grab (cfr. Piedmontese language, Piedmontese ''ciapé'', Venetian language, Venetian ''ciapar'' - to grab)
* ''Buonyorno'' – Good morning (cfr. Italian ''buongiorno'' – good morning)
* ''Pibe'' – Boy (cfr. old Italian ''pivo'' – boy, apprentice)
* ''Birra'' – Beer (cfr. Italian, Neapolitan language, Neapolitan ''birra'' – beer)
* ''Mufa'' – Unlucky person (cfr. Italian ''muffa'', Piedmontese language, Piedmontese ''mofa'' – mold)

Between about 1880 and 1900, Argentina received a large number of peasants from the South of Italy, who arrived with little or no schooling in Spanish. As the immigrants strove to communicate with the local ''criollo (people), criollos'', they produced a variable mixture of Spanish with Italian languages and dialects, specially Neapolitan. The pidgin language was given the derogatory name ''cocoliche'' by the locals. Since the children of the immigrants grew up speaking Spanish at school, work, and military service, Cocoliche remained confined mostly to the first generation immigrants and slowly fell out of use. The pidgin has been depicted humorously in literary works and in the Argentine sainete theater, such as by Dario Vittori.

Cuisine

Argentine cuisine has been strongly influenced by Italian cuisine; the typical Argentine diet is a variation on the Mediterranean diet.

Italian staple dishes like pizza and pasta are common. Pasta is extremely common, either simple unadorned pasta with butter or oil or accompanied by a tomato or bechamel based sauce.

Pizza (locally pronounced ''pisa'' or ''pitsa''), for example, has been wholly subsumed and, in its Argentine form, more closely resembles Italian pizza al taglio but round instead of rectangular. Pizza is shared between two or more people, it's not the usual Italian personal pizza. Typical or exclusively Argentine pizzas include ''pizza canchera'', ''pizza rellena'' (stuffed pizza), ''pizza por metro'' (pizza by the meter), and ''pizza a la parrilla'' (grilled pizza). While Argentine pizza derives from Neapolitan cuisine, the Argentine fugazza, ''fugaza''/''fugazza'' comes from the ''focaccia xeneise'' (from Genoa), but in any case, its preparation is different from its Italian counterpart, and the addition of cheese to make the dish (fugaza con queso or fugazzeta) started in Argentina or Uruguay.

''Fainá'' is a type of thin bread made with chickpea flour (adopted from northern Italy). The name comes from the Ligurian (Romance language), Ligurian word for the Italian ''farinata''. Pizzerias in Buenos Aires often offer fainá, which is eaten with pizza, a wedge of fainá on top of a wedge of pizza.

Nevertheless, the ''pastas'' (pasta, always in the plural) surpass pizzas in consumption levels. Among them are ''tallarines'' (fettuccine), ''ravioles'' (ravioli), ''ñoquis'' (gnocchi), and ''canelones'' (cannelloni).

For example, pasta is often eaten with white bread ("French bread"). That can be explained by the low cost of bread and the fact that Argentine pastas tend to come with a large amount of ''tuco'' sauce (Italian ''sugo'') and accompanied by ''estofado'' (stew). Less commonly, pastas are eaten with a dressing of ''pesto'', a green sauce based on basil, or ''salsa blanca'' (béchamel sauce).

''Sorrentinos'' are also a local dish with a misleading name (they do not come from Sorrento but were invented in Mar del Plata). They look like big round ''ravioles'' stuffed with mozzarella, cottage cheese and basil in tomato sauce.

''Polenta'' comes from Northern Italy and is very common throughout Argentina. And, just like ''polenta concia'' in Italy, it is eaten as a main dish, with sauce and melted cheese, or it may accompany a stew.

Other dishes are ''milanesas'' (the name deriving from the original ''cotoletta alla milanese'' from Milan), breaded meats similar to the Wiener schnitzel. A common dish of this variety is the ''milanesa napolitana'', an Argentine innovation despite its name, which comes from former Buenos Aires restaurant "Nápoli." It is breaded meat baked with a topping of melted cheese, tomatoes, and sometimes ham. The milanesa was brought to Argentina by Central European immigrants.

Pasta frola is a typical Argentine cuisine, Argentine recipe heavily influenced by Southern Italy, Southern Italian cuisine, known as Pasta Frolla in Italy. Pasta frola consists of a buttery pastry base with a filling made of quince jam, sweet-potato jam or milk caramel (dulce de leche) and topped with thin strips of the same pastry, forming a squared pattern. It is an Argentine tradition to eat pastafrola with mate (beverage), mate in the afternoon. The dish is also very popular in Paraguay and Uruguay. The traditional Italian recipe was not prepared with latticework, unlike in Argentina, but with a lid pierced with molds in the form of hearts or flowers.

Ice cream ( es, Helado, it, gelato) is a particularly popular Argentine dessert. Its creamy texture is caused by the large proportion of cream, and, as everywhere, many flavors are available. Ice cream was again a legacy of the Italian diaspora.

Education

Italian international schools in Argentina include:SCUOLE PARITARIE ITALIANE ALL'ESTERO

Archive
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* Scuola Italiana Cristoforo Colombo (Buenos Aires)
* Istituto Scolastico "Scuola Edmondo De Amicis" (Buenos Aires, Rosario)
* Escuela Dante Alighieri, Scuola "Dante Alighieri" (Córdoba, Rosario)
* Istituto di Cultura Italica (La Plata)
* Associazione Scuole Italiane "XXI Aprile" (Mendoza)
* Centro Culturale Italiano Scuole Alessandro Manzoni (Olivos and Villa Adelina)

Notable people

Anarchists

*Severino Di Giovanni, antifascist

Architects

*César Pelli, designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks

Artists

*Daniela Anahí Bessia, singer
*Antonio Agri, violinist
*Charly Alberti, musician
*Tito Alberti, drummer
*Juan d'Arienzo, tango musician
*Alba Arnova, dancer
*Juan Carlos Baglietto, musician
*Gato Barbieri, musician
*Adrián Barilari, musician
*Marilina Bertoldi, musician
*Rodolfo Biagi, musician
*Raúl di Blasio, musician
*Zeta Bosio, musician
*José Antonio Bottiroli, classical musician
*José Bragato, composer
*Enrique Cadícamo, tango lyricist
*Carmencita Calderón, Carmen Risso de Cancellieri, dancer
*Alberto Caracciolo, tango musician
*Julio de Caro, tango composer
*Eleonora Cassano, dancer
*Cacho Castaña, Cacho Castagna, singer
*Cazzu, rapper
*Gustavo Cerati, singer-songwriter
*Enrique Santos Discépolo, tango composer
*Duki (rapper), Duki, rapper
*Lali Espósito, singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, model and director
*Walter Giardino, guitarist and songwriter
*León Gieco, singer
*Paulo Londra, singer
*Luisana Lopilato, actress, singer, and model
*Agustín Magaldi, tango and milonga singer
*Homero Manzi, tango lyricist
*Daniel Melingo, musician
*Litto Nebbia, singer-songwriter
*Nicki Nicole, rapper
*Pappo, guitarist, singer and composer
*Soledad Pastorutti, folk singer
*Nathy Peluso, singer
*Astor Piazzolla, tango composer and bandoneon player
*Luis Alberto Spinetta, singer, guitarist, composer and poet
*Tini (singer), Tini, singer
*Aníbal Troilo, tango musician
*Trueno (rapper), Trueno, rapper
*Lito Vitale, musician

Business

*Daniel Angelici, president of Boca Juniors
*Poppy Bermúdez, Poppy Bermúdez Pippa, entrepreneur
*Diego Bossio, economist
*Alejandro Bulgheroni, entrepreneur
*Carlos Bulgheroni, entrepreneur
*Alejandro Burzaco, entrepreneur
*Eduardo Costantini, real estate developer
*Enrique Mosconi, military engineer
*Horacio Pagani (auto executive), Horacio Pagani, car designer
*Torcuato di Tella, industrialist and philanthropist

Criminals

* Cayetano Santos Godino, serial killer
*Leopoldo Galtieri, general and president of Argentina during the Falklands War
*Orlando Ramón Agosti, member of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1981
*Reynaldo Bignone, dictatorial president of Argentina between 1982 and 1983
*Antonio Domingo Bussi, general
*Osvaldo Cacciatore, brigadier, who served as Mayor of Buenos Aires in the National Reorganization Process

Entertainers

*Daniela Anahí Bessia, celebrity TV presenter and actress, model, influencer, producer
*Quirino Cristiani, director who created the world's first animated film
*Paola Carosella, celebrity chef, TV presenter, and one of the judges of MasterChef (Brazilian TV series), Masterchef Brasil (currently Argentine Brazilians, based on Sao Paulo, Brazil)
*Gimena Accardi, actress
*Graciela Alfano, actress and vedette
*Alejandro Agresti, film producer (currently based on the Netherlands)
*Ernesto Alterio, actor (currently based between his home country, Argentina and Spain)
*Héctor Alterio, actor (currently based between his home country, Argentina and Spain)
*Malena Alterio, actress (currently based in Spain)
*Luis César Amadori, film director
*Mike Amigorena, actor
*Mariana Anghileri, actress
*Norberto Aroldi, actor
*Catalina Artusi, actress
*Christian Bach, Christian Bach Bottino, actress
*Ángeles Balbiani, actress
*Mario Baroffio, actor
*Valentina Bassi, actress
*Florencia Bertotti, actress
*Valeria Bertuccelli, actress
*Thelma Biral, actress
*José Bódalo, José Bódalo Zúffoli, actor
*Patricio Borghetti, actor
*Luis Brandoni, actor
*Alicia Bruzzo, actress
*Héctor Calcaño, Héctor Calcagno, actor
*Juan José Campanella, film director
*Charlotte Caniggia, model and media personality
*Diego Capusotto, TV presenter
*Hugo del Carril, actor
*Antonio Carrizo, TV and radio presenter
*Evangelina Carrozzo, model
*Moria Casán, Moria Casanova, actress
*Catrano Catrani, film director
*Agustina Cherri, actress
*Juan Chioran, actor
*Tulia Ciámpoli, actress
*Ricardo Darín, actor
*Lucas Demare, film director, screenwriter and film producer
*Alejandro Fantino, TV host
*Dolores Fonzi, TV, theatre and film actress
*Tomás Fonzi, actor
*Guillermo Francella, actor
*Nicolás Francella, actor
*Renata Fronzi, actress
*Carlos Galettini, film director, film producer and screenwriter
*Carlos Gandolfo, stage actor and director
*Darío Grandinetti, actor
*Juan Pedro Lanzani, actor and singer
*Valeria Mazza, supermodel and businesswoman
*Tita Merello, actress
*Andrés Muschietti, film director
*Florencio Parravicini, actor
*Diego Peretti, actor
*Oriana Sabatini, model, actress and singer
*Julián Serrano, YouTuber, actor, singer and television presenter
*Leonardo Sbaraglia, actor
*Marcelo Tinelli, TV host, media producer and businessman
*Valentina Zenere, actress, model and singer

Inventors

*Sinforoso Amoedo, Sinforoso Amoedo Canaveri, doctor
* Domingo Liotta, inventor of first successful artificial heart

Jurists

*Juan de Canaveris, notary

Law enforcement figures

*Carlos Alfredo D'Amico, lawyer
*José María Campagnoli, prosecutor
*Sebastián Casanello, judge
*Susana Ruiz Cerutti, lawyer and former Chancellor

Journalism

*José Amalfitani, sports journalist
*Eduardo P. Archetti, anthropologist
*Eric Calcagno, sociologist

Military

*Joseph Gregorio Belgrano, colonel
*Manuel Belgrano, member of Primera Junta regarded as the father of the Flag of Argentina
*Manuel Canaveris, lieutenant
*Ángel Canavery, lieutenant colonel

Painters and sculptors

*Antonio Alice
*Aquiles Badi
*Antonio Berni
*Erminio Blotta
*Emilio Caraffa
*Ricardo Carpani
*Juan Carlos Castagnino
*Tito Cittadini
*Pío Collivadino
*Lucio Fontana

Politicians

*Mario Barletta, Radical Civic Union politician
*Manuel Belgrano ,member of the Primera Junta
*Fabio Biancalani, Justicialist Party politician
*Delia Bisutti, Solidarity and Equality politician
*Antonio Bonfatti, Socialist Party (Argentina), Socialist Party politician
*Ángel Borlenghi, Peronism, Peronist politician
*Juan Atilio Bramuglia, Peronist politician
*Teodoro Bronzini, Socialist Party politician
*Jorge Busti, Justicialist Party politician
*Juan Manuel Cafferata, National Autonomist Party politician
*Antonio Cafiero, Justicialist Party politician
*Héctor José Cámpora, President of Argentina
*Héctor Canaveri, National Autonomist Party politician
*Pedro Canaveri, Radical Civic Union and former President of Argentine Football Association
*Dante Caputo, President of the United Nations General Assembly
*Ramón J. Cárcano, National Autonomist Party
*Juan José Castelli, member of the Primera Junta
*Domingo Cavallo, Justicialist Party
*Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, Argentine Ambassador to United Kingdom
*Alfredo Chiaradía, former Ambassador to the United States
*Hugo Cóccaro, Justicialist Party
*Arturo Colombi, Radical Civic Union
*Ricardo Colombi, Radical Civic Union
*Lucía Corpacci, Justicialist Party
*Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina
*Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina
*Raúl Alberto Lastiri, President of Argentina
*Eduardo Lonardi, President of Argentina
*Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina
*Gabriela Michetti, Vice President of Argentina
*Javier Milei, Freedom Advances
*Carlos Pellegrini, President of Argentina
*Juan Perón, President of Argentina
*Daniel Scioli, former governor of Buenos Aires Province
*Guido di Tella, businessman, academic, and diplomat
*Roberto Eduardo Viola, President of Argentina

Prelates

*Manuel Alberti, priest and member of the Primera Junta in 1810
*Enrique Angelelli, bishop
*Carlos Azpiroz Costa, friar
*Pope Francis, born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Italian immigrants from Piedmont
*Rómulo Antonio Braschi, bishop
*Carlos Armando Bustos, Carlos Armando Bustos Crostelli, member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
*Antonio Caggiano, Cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires
*Tomás Canavery, priest
*Leonardo Castellani, priest
*Santiago Copello, Cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires
*Antonio Quarracino, Cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires

Scientists

*Juan Bautista Ambrosetti, archaeologist
*Florentino Ameghino, paleontologist
*José Bonaparte, paleontologist
*Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini, paleontologist
*Constanza Ceruti, archaeologist
*Primarosa Chieri, physician
*Mario Crocco, neurobiologist
*René Favaloro, cardiac surgeon
*José Ingenieros, physician, pharmacist, philosopher, and essayist

Sports

*Roberto Abbondanzieri, footballer
*José Acasuso, tennis player
*José Acciari, footballer
*Agustina Albertario, field hockey player
*Matías Alemanno, rugby union player
*Leonel Altobelli, footballer
*Gabriel Amato, footballer
*Víctor Hugo Amatti, footballer
*Horacio Accavallo, boxer
*Antonio Angelillo, footballer
*Cristian Ansaldi, footballer
*Juan Antonini, footballer
*Tomás Argento, field hockey player
*Franco Armani, footballer
*Leandro Armani, footballer
*Mariano Armentano, footballer
*Leandro Baccaro, field hockey player
*Tomás Badaloni, footballer
*Facundo Bagnis, tennis player
*Horacio Raúl Baldessari, footballer
*Estefanía Banini, football player
*Mariano Barbosa, footballer
*Guillermo Barros Schelotto, footballer and manager
*Gustavo Barros Schelotto, footballer and manager
*Alfio Basile, football coach
*Roberto Basílico, footballer
*Oscar Basso, footballer
*Pablo Bastianini, footballer
*Damián Batallini, footballer
*Gabriel Batistuta, footballer
*Sebastián Battaglia, footballer
*Cristian Battocchio, footballer
*Elias Bazzi, footballer
*Luciano Becchio, footballer
*Carlos Bechtholdt, Carlos Bechtholdt Bazzano, footballer
*Amelia Belotti, handball player
*Darío Benedetto, footballer
*Eduardo Berizzo, footballer and coach
*Lucas Bernardi, footballer
*Attilio Bernasconi, footballer
*Sergio Berti, footballer
*Daniel Bertoni, footballer
*Lucas Besozzi, footballer
*Juan Betinotti, footballer
*Gonzalo Bettini, footballer
*Claudio Biaggio, footballer
*Bruno Bianchi (footballer), Bruno Bianchi, footballer
*Carlos Bianchi, footballer
*Valeria Bianchi, handball player
*Emanuel Biancucchi, footballer
*Maxi Biancucchi, footballer
*Ludovico Bidoglio, footballer
*Marcelo Bielsa, football coach
*Lucas Biglia, footballer
*Carlos Bilardo, football coach
*Dan Biocchi, athlete
*Mariano Bíttolo, footballer
*Ricardo Bochini, footballer
*José Luis Boffi, footballer
*Mario Bolatti, footballer
*Enrique Bologna, footballer
*Oscar Bonavena, boxer
*Iván Borghello, footballer
*Claudio Borghi (football manager), Claudio Borghi, football coach
*Ángel Bossio, footballer
*Juan Botasso, footballer
*Andrés Bottiglieri, footballer
*Jonathan Bottinelli, footballer
*Elmo Bovio, footballer
*Luis Brunetto, athlete
*Ezequiel Bullaude, footballer
*Guillermo Burdisso, footballer
*Nicolás Burdisso, footballer
*Jeremías Caggiano, footballer
*Diego Cagna, footballer
*Lucas Calabrese, sailor
*Pablo Calandria, footballer
*Agustín Calleri, tennis player
*Jonathan Calleri, footballer
*Facundo Callioni, field hockey player
*Pedro Calomino, footballer
*José María Calvo, footballer
*Adolfo Cambiaso, polo player
*Esteban Cambiasso, footballer
*Nicolás Cambiasso, footballer
*Julián Camino, footballer
*Lucas Cammareri, field hockey player
*Matías Cammareri, field hockey player
*Mauro Camoranesi, footballer.
*Hugo Campagnaro, footballer
*Gustavo Campagnuolo, footballer
*Facundo Campazzo, basketball player
*Rocio Campigli, handball player
*Gonzalo Canale, rugby union player
*Claudio Caniggia, footballer
*Vicente Cantatore, footballer
*Salvador Capitano, football coach
*Roberto Capparelli, footballer
*Santiago Capurro, field hockey player
*Franco Caraccio, footballer
*Ezequiel Alejo Carboni, footballer
*Martín Cardetti, footballer
*César Carignano, footballer
*Luis Alberto Carranza, footballer
*Juan Pablo Carrizo, footballer
*Federico Cartabia, footballer
*Leandro Caruso, footballer
*Damián Casalinuovo, footballer
*Raúl Alfredo Cascini, footballer
*Daniel Castellani, volleyball coach
*Iván Castellani, volleyball player
*María Castelli, field hockey player
*Miguel Angel Castellini, boxer
*Eugenio Castellucci, footballer
*Yael Castiglione, volleyball player
*Martin Castrogiovanni, rugby union player
*Lucas Castromán, footballer
*Martina Cavallero, field hockey player
*Bruno Cerella, basketball player
*Alberto Cerioni, footballer
*Renato Cesarini, footballer
*Roberto Cherro, footballer
*Germán Chiaraviglio, pole vaulter
*Valeria Chiaraviglio, pole vaulter
*Diego Chiodo, field hockey player
*Alberto Chividini, footballer
*Nicolas Cinalli, footballer
*Luciano Cingolani, footballer
*Ezequiel Cirigliano, footballer
*Renato Civelli, footballer
*Sebastián Cobelli, footballer
*Juan Martín Coggi, boxer
*Roberto Colautti, footballer
*Andrea Collarini, tennis player
*Fabricio Coloccini, footballer
*María Colombo (field hockey), María Colombo, field hockey player
*Nazareno Colombo, footballer
*Juan Pablo Compagnucci, footballer
*Facundo Conte, volleyball player
*Hugo Conte, volleyball coach
*Felipe Contepomi, rugby union player
*Raúl Conti, footballer
*Enzo Copetti, footballer
*Julio Cozzi, footballer
*Victoria Crivelli, handball player
*Tomás Cubelli, rugby union player
*Patricio Cucchi, footballer
*José Luis Cuciuffo, footballer
*Matías Claudio Cuffa, footballer
*Juan Cuminetti, volleyball player
*Julio Curatella, rower
*Silvina D'Elía, field hockey player
*Roberto De Vicenzo, golf
*Carlos Delfino, basketball player
*Martín Demichelis, footballer
*José Devecchi, footballer
*Marco Di Cesare, footballer
*Ángel Di María, footballer
*Alfredo Di Stéfano, footballer
*Paulo Dybala, footballer
*Juan Manuel Fangio, car racer
*Brian Farioli, footballer
*Franco Ferrari (footballer, born 1995), Franco Ferrari, footballer
*Gianluca Ferrari, footballer
*Héctor Fértoli, footballer
*Luis Ángel Firpo, boxer
*Fernando Forestieri, footballer
*Ignacio Gariglio, footballer
*Federico Gattoni, footballer
*Francisco Gerometta, footballer
*Lautaro Gianetti, footballer
*Manu Ginóbili, basketball player
*Federico Girotti, footballer
*Gonzalo Goñi, footballer
*Gabriel Graciani (footballer, born 1993), Gabriel Graciani, footballer
*Mauro Icardi, footballer
*Nicolás Laprovíttola, basketball player
*Hernán Lamberti, footballer
*Manuel Lanzini, footballer
*Carlo Lattanzio, footballer
*Ricardo La Volpe, footballer
*Francesco Lo Celso, footballer
*Giovani Lo Celso, footballer
*Marcelo Loffreda, rugby union player
*Ezequiel Lavezzi, footballer
*Nicolino Locche, boxer
*Augusto Lotti, footballer
*Cristian Lucchetti, footballer
*Rosario Luchetti, field hockey player
*Sofía Maccari, field hockey player
*Julián Malatini, footballer
*Diego Maradona, footballer
*Tomás Marchiori, footballer
*Alan Marinelli, footballer
*Gonzalo Maroni, footballer
*Gerardo Martino, footballer and manager
*Javier Mascherano, footballer
*Humberto Maschio, footballer
*César Luis Menotti, football coach
*Delfina Merino, field hockey player
*Lionel Messi, footballer
*Nicolás Messiniti, footballer
*Gonzalo Miceli, footballer
*Diego Milito, footballer
*Gabriel Milito, footballer
*Federico Molinari (gymnast), Federico Molinari, artistic gymnast
*Fernando Monetti, footballer
*Alejandro Montecchia, basketball player
*Luis Monti, footballer
*Antonio Napolitano (footballer), Antonio Napolitano, footballer
*Juan Ignacio Nardoni, footballer
*Andrés Nocioni, basketball player
*Fabricio Oberto, basketball player
*Vanina Oneto, field hockey player
*Raimondo Orsi, footballer
*Nicolás Orsini, footballer
*Juan Ignacio Pacchini, footballer
*Martin Palermo, footballer
*Paula Pareto, judoka
*Pedro Pasculli, footballer
*Daniel Passarella, footballer
*Lucas Passerini, footballer
*Agustín Pastorelli, footballer
*Nicolás Pasquini, footballer
*Germán Pezzella, footballer
*Ignacio Piatti, footballer
*Santiago Pierotti, footballer
*Tomás Pochettino, footballer
*Pablo Prigioni, basketball player
*Carla Rebecchi, field hockey player
*Antonino Rocca, wrestler
*Cecilia Rognoni, field hockey player
*Leandro Romagnoli, footballer
*Agustín Rossi (footballer), Agustín Rossi, footballer
*Oscar Ruggeri, footballer
*Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
*Lionel Scaloni, footballer and manager
*Mariela Scarone, field hockey player
*Ezequiel Schelotto, footballer
*Luis Scola, basketball player
*Hugo Sconochini, basketball player
*Diego Simeone, football coach
*Omar Sívori, footballer
*Guillermo Stradella, footballer
*Belén Succi, field hockey player
*Nicolás Tagliafico, footballer
*Alberto Tarantini, footballer
*Renzo Tesuri, footballer
*Diego Valeri, footballer
*Manuel Vicentini, footballer
*Javier Zanetti, footballer

Writers

*Orlando Barone, writer and journalist
*Hector Bianciotti, novelist
*Enrique Breccia, comic artist
*Susana Calandrelli, poet
*María Luisa Carnelli, writer and poet
*Oscar Conti, humorist
*Pascual Contursi, poet
*Roberto Cossa, playwright
*Quirino Cristiani, cartoonist
*Josefina Passadori, writer
*Syria Poletti, writer
*Manuel Puig, writer
*Ernesto Sabato, writer, painter, and physicist
*Juan Jose Sebreli, sociologist, essayist, and writer

See also

*Argentina–Italy relations
*Demographics of Argentina
*German Argentines
*Immigration in Argentina
*Spanish Argentines

Further reading

* Perez, Santiago. 2021. "doi:10.1093/ej/ueab016, Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration." ''The Economic Journal.''

References

External links

"Immigrants Being Transported on Horse-Drawn Wagon, Buenos Aires, Argentina"
is a photograph by Frank G. Carpenter. He talks about Italian Argentines in the site caption.

{{Immigration to Argentina

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