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<p>Welcome to the project site for the <em>Lega Toscana di Protezione</em>. This
research was conducted by four student researchers and one faculty researcher from
the <a href="http://frenchanditalian.pitt.edu">Department of French and Italian</a>
and in consultation with individuals from various academic disciplines and
specialties, both on Pitt's main and satellite campuses.</p>
<p>This research project is a multi-dimensional look into the members who comprised the
<em>Lega Toscana di Protezione</em>, a Pittsburgh-based beneficial group that
was exclusive to Tuscan immigrants living in the Pittsburgh area. Using archived
documents from the <a target="_blank"
href="http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/detre-library-archives">Senator John
Heinz History Center's Detre Library & Archives</a> as a repository of
primary sources, the researchers combed through the Tuscan League's minute logs,
application materials from the Tuscan Women's Auxiliary, and digitized newspaper
entries on individual League members to construct a composite portrait of what this
group was, who ascribed to it, and how they interacted with each other and with the
greater area around them.</p>
<p>The majority of primary source materials regarding <em>la Lega Toscana</em>, its
sister organization, the Women's Auxiliary, and its members were graciously provided
by the <a target="_blank" href="http://heinzhistorycenter.org">Heinz History
Center</a> for academic use. The archived <em>Lega Toscana di Protezione</em>
minutes are available for free, in-house study at the Detre Library and Archives in
Pittsburgh, PA.</p>
<p>The primary objective of this webpage is to both inform users of the interpersonal
mechanisms that drove this organization, as well as to provide a free, open-source,
online location to study, or to simply browse, the minute manuscripts,
transcriptions of those manuscripts, or our translation of the volume.</p>
<p>Read more about our researchers, our questions, and our approaches in our <q>About
us</q> section above.</p>
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