This article examines the first tour of Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Italy and the so-called ‘sfida dei butteri’ (the challenge of the Italian cowboys of the Pontine marshes), which took place in Rome in March 1890. Analysing nineteenth-century Italian newspapers and photographs, I demonstrate that populist, anti-capitalist, and anti-American sentiments marked the Italian media's responses to the American show. In the historical context of Italy's socioeconomic crisis and of the first phase of colonial expansion in Africa (1870–1922), the mixed reception of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, amplified by the media event of the sfida, shaped the fate of the western genre in Italy.

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布法罗比尔的狂野西部、牛仔以及意大利西部地区的命运

本文探讨了第一次巡演布法罗比尔的狂野西部在意大利和所谓的“巴特里之家”（意大利蓬蒂沼泽牛仔的挑战），1890 年 3 月在罗马举行。通过分析 19 世纪的意大利报纸和照片，我证明了民粹主义、反资本主义和反美情绪是意大利媒体的特征。对美国节目的回应。在意大利社会经济危机和非洲殖民扩张第一阶段（1870-1922）的历史背景下，布法罗比尔的狂野西部，被媒体事件放大斯菲达，塑造了意大利西部片的命运。