The biweekly paper Spettatore Egiziano was the first Italian-language newspaper to be published in Egypt
Spettatore egiziano. Giornale politico, scientifico, letterario e commerciale
Livorno, Italy
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24 July 1856
The Spettatore Egiziano was founded in 1845 by Giacomo Castelnuovo, a Jewish medical doctor from Livorno (Tuscany, Italy) who had to flee his country in 1843 because of his affiliation to the Giovane Italia (the Italian patriotic and republican movement created by Giuseppe Mazzini). The Spettatore Egiziano was the first Italian-language newspaper to be published in Egypt. Castelnuovo also founded the Il Progresso d’Egitto, a bulletin that kept the Italian community in Egypt updated about the Italian political events like the 1848 revolutions.
Castelnuovo later moved to Tunis where he became the Bey's physician.
ASLi, Governo civile e militare, b. 451
Massimo Sanacore "The biweekly paper Spettatore Egiziano was the first Italian-language newspaper to be published in Egypt" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;112;en
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