This article investigates the connections between Wheat Pattern refined earthenwares produced in São Paulo and the Italian immigration farming colony of northeast Rio Grande do Sul during the first decades of the twentieth century. It explores the wheat symbology to discuss the role that these wares exerted in the construction of an Italian identity in southern Brazil appealing to those immigrants´ core values: agricultural labor, family life, and Catholic religiosity. Meanwhile, the fascist regime diffused these same values to build a trans-Atlantic national identity which bounded immigrants to their homeland as civilization carriers for the New Roman Empire designed by Mussolini.

本文研究了在20世纪前几十年在圣保罗生产的“小麦纹”精致陶器与东北东南里奥格兰德州的意大利移民农业殖民地之间的联系。它探索了小麦的象征意义，以探讨这些商品在巴西南部建立意大利身份时所发挥的作用，以吸引这些移民的核心价值观：农业劳动，家庭生活和天主教信仰。同时，法西斯主义政权散布了同样的价值观，建立了跨大西洋的民族身份，将移民作为墨索里尼设计的新罗马帝国的文明载体，将他们的祖国束缚了下来。