We know that they also lived in Chios (Chios) and Beirut for a while after they left Venice. All I know is that my father’s family came to Istanbul from Venice in the 19th century for commercial purposes. Unfortunately, I do not have very detailed information on this subject. During my life in Italy, I met very few Italians who knew the word Levantine.Ģ- How much do you know about your first Levantine ancestors who arrived and their reasons for that move and their professions? When I told them that I came from Istanbul and that I was a Levantine of Italian descent, I was bombarded with questions.
Because my accent was nothing like that of the Veneto region, and because I was dark haired, they often thought I was from Southern Italy and mostly from Sicily. After graduating from the Galileo Galilei Italian high school, I went to Venice to study Italian Language and Literature. Maybe I wanted to break this tradition that has been going on for years. The dominant culture among the Levantines was always the French culture, since the Levantines and most Italian-born Levantines had studied in French schools.
Being of Italian origin is of course a big factor in this regard.
Clearly you love this language but was it also a way of connecting with your paternal ancestry who arrived from Italy in Ottoman times? Were the Italians suprised to see a ‘native Italian speaker from Turkey’ when you arrived?įor me, Italian has a very special place. Interview with Giorgia Renata Taoussi, August 2021 - Türkçeġ- You were determined to study at the Italian rather than French school in Istanbul and later graduated from the Ca' Foscari University in Venice in Modern Italian language and literature.
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