Mille of Garibaldi – The photographs
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla – March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992 – was an Argentine tango composer. His father Vicente was born in Mar del Plata on 12 November 1893 by Pantaleo Piazzolla e Rosa Centofanti His mother Assunta Manetti was the daughter of two Italian immigrants (Luigi Manetti and Clelia Bertolami) from Massa Sassorosso,…
[:en] “Where have you gone, Joe Di Maggio”. It was 1968 when Simon & Garfunkel sang “Mrs. Robinson”. Joseph Paul Di Maggio, the greatest baseball player of all time, Marilyn Monroe’s ex-husband, was born on November 25, 1914 in Martinez, California, the eighth of nine children born to Italian immigrants Giuseppe DiMaggio (1872–1949) and Rosalia…
[:en] Dean Martin was born on June 7, 1917, in Steubenville, Ohio, to an Italian father, Gaetano Alfonso Crocetti (15 dec 1894–29 Aug 1967), and an Italian-American mother, Angela Crocetti (née Barra; 18 Dec 1897–25 Dec 1966). They were married in Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio, 25 dec 1914. His father, who was a barber, was originally…
Discover the website’s “Carte da legare”” promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture – Directorate General Archives, created to make known the archival heritage of the Italian psychiatric hospitals. The most important news of the site shall be the consultation with the filing of medical records of 13 historical psychiatric hospitals. It is done with…
In many italian genealogic research you could find child for whom both parents were listed on the civil registration of birth as ”unknown’. This is a very big ‘brick wall’. Infant abandonment was widespread, for a variety of reasons: the extreme poverty of most citizens in large town and the social disapproval for unwed pregnancy was. Many new mothers…
Luigi Del Bianco was the chief stone carver who played a key role in the realization of the sculptural complex of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This 5,725 foot monument was begun October 4, 1927 and work on it stopped in 1941 with the death of Gutzon Borglum. Luigi…