by DHales | Jun 21, 2017 | Books, culture, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
A guest post by Anthony Fasano It wasn’t until my mid-30s that I really started thinking about where I came from. I don’t mean where I grew up; I mean where my family came from generations earlier. I talked to my grandparents, did a lot of research and finally...
by DHales | Jul 24, 2014 | culture, history, Italy, Language, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Un bel nome A beautiful name a guest post by James Vescovi My wife and I chose our son’s name, Luca, from a book of Italian names. It was very much unlike the American names our first-generation parents had given our siblings and us: James, Anne, Mark,...
by DHales | Oct 17, 2012 | Books, history, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Italo-americani Italian Americans As many as 26 million Americans claim some Italian ancestry (origini italiane). In the greatest surge of immigration, between 1880 and 1920, some four million Italians left their fatherland (patria) for the United States. About 80...
