| Item Description: | Published version of a 1976 exhibition held at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Providence, R.I., commemorating the Bicentennial of the United States, and celebrating the cultural exchange between Italy and colonial America over a period of 300 years. Included are descriptions of 127 items from the collections of the John Carter Brown Library, representing contributions to American history made by Italian explorers, cartographers, political thinkers, travelers, physicians, scientists, and translators. |