Mille of Garibaldi – The photographs
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…
[: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…
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…
[:en] Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on January 17, 1899. He was the most famous American gangster, who dominated organized crime in Chicago from 1925 to 1931. Al was married at age 19 on December 30, 1918 to Mae Josephine Coughlin who was of Irish descent. The…
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi aka Rudolph Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Taranto May 6, 1895. He was one of three sons born to Giovanni Guglielmi and his wife, Beatrice Gabriella Barbin. Valentino’s father served as a cavalry officer in the Royal Italian Army, and also worked as a veterinarian and mason. His father Giovanni…
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6, 1946 in New York. He is the son of Jacqueline Frances (Labofish), an astrologer, dancer, and women’s wrestling promoter, and Francesco Stallone, who owned beauty salons and played polo. His Italian ancestors were from Puglia (Italy) Francesco Stallone was born Sept. 12, 1919, in Gioia del…