100 / 540
99
from Puerto Plata. It had a power plant, a railroad and a labor
force of 1,200 workers (AHS, ED, 20 September 1918).
168
AHS, ED, July 28, 1909.
169
AHS, ED, July 28, 1909. Died July 27, 1909. See also, L. 3 Def.,
f. 22, a.29, Santiago Cathedral. He was buried in the mausoleum
of the Glas and Pou families, (AHS, ED, July 29, 1909). See also,
AHS, ED, July 30, 1909. He was born on October 30, 1874 in San-
ta Domenica Talao (Casa de Italia, op. cit.).
170
AHS, ED, August 26, 1912. It was patented as a mixed store in
1911 (AHS, BM 674, June 14, 1911).
171
AHS, ED, May 19, 1913. Gertrudis Perellada, daughter of
Spanish immigrants initially living in Cuba, married Pedro Rus-
so on September 13, 1901. Their children were Pedro Carmelo,
María Teresa, Miguel Angel and Víctor Manuel Russo Perellada
(Casa de Italia, op. cit.).
172
AHS, ED, April 2, 1904
173
AHS, ED, November 8, 1905.
174
AHS, ED, February 3, 1908.
175
AHS, ED, January 13, 1909.
176
AHS, ED, January 5, 1909.
177
AHS, ED, July 3, 1906 and EP, January 27, 1907. It was quoted
in 1916 that the warehouse of the Campagna Brothers was on
February 27 Street (AHS, ED, August 12, 1916). Luis Campagna
was managing partner in 1908 (ANSR, PN: JD, a.n.177, July 4,
1908).
178
AHS, ED, July 15, 1907. In Moca they had a rented house in
front of the market next to P. Diep (AHS, ED, February 9, 1912).
179
AHS, ED, May 13, 1910. La Campagna Hermanos appears
patented in 1908 as a mixed store, speculator and wholesaler of
liquor (AHS, BM 585, 16 May 1908). In 1909 it appears in this last
sector (AHS, BM 608, April 22, 1909).
180
AHS, ED, August 1, 1907.
181
AHS, ED, October 12, 1907. From 1909 this house was known
only as Juan Plá & Co. (AHS, ED, March 2, 1909).
182
AHS, ED, September 9, 1905. Originally it was indicated that
the establishment, opened in front of J.M. Franco Sucesores, be-
longed to Russo Hermanos (AHS, ED, September 1, 1905).
183
AHS, ED, August 7, 1913. About their products, see AHS, ED,
December 28, 1916.
Domingo Russo married Josefa Altagracia Victoria on January 20,
1912 (AHS, ED, January 19, 1912 and Libro de Matrimonios cor-
responding to 1911-1913, f. 85, a.2, Oficialía del Estado Civil de la
Primera Circunscripción del municipio de Santiago). She was the
daughter of Eduardo Victoria and Adriana Guzman and niece of
then-President Eladio Victoria (AHS, ED, January 20, 1912. See
also, AHS, ED, January 10-11, 1912).
184
AHS, ED, September 11, 1907.
185
ANSR, PN: JD, a.n.118, June 23, 1910. Sale of land in Joya
Grande, Licey, La Vega, by Elías Brache son in favor of Fr. Ma-
nuel Z. Rodriguez. Attached is the power of attorney of Elías
Brache, son to Abelardo Viñas, dated June 13, 1910, in a sheet
stamped by Schiffino Hermanos, which mentions his hotels.
186
AHS, ED, December 18, 1909. It was inaugurated on Decem-
ber 17, 1909.
Its construction began in 1908 and would be established “in
combination” with those of Santiago, La Vega and Puerto Pla-
ta (AHS, ED, June 11, 1908). In Puerto Plata there was also the
hotel “Cibao,” of Cino, Caba and Schiffino, which, located on
the main commercial street of that city, was announced in “The
Dominican Republic - Directory and General Guide” of Enrique
Deschamps.
The Schiffino brothers were Luis, Francisco and Pedro. They
were the sons of Javier Schiffino, who died in Santa Domenica
Talao on May 12, 1911 (AHS, ED, June 13, 1911). Of them, Fran-
cisco (Pancho) Schiffino opened a restaurant in Moca in 1911
(AHS, ED, April 5, 1911).
187
AHS, ED, December 1, 1910. See also, AHS, ED, December
28, 1910.
188
Petruccio Schiffino is referred to as the “former owner” of the
Hotel Italia in La Vega in 1913, the year he bought the Hotel
Inglaterra in San Pedro de Macoris (AHS, ED, 22 October 1913).
Another reference to him—on his return from a trip to Italy—is
found in AHS, ED, February 8, 1912.
189
AHS, ED, September 9,1915. The sale was made on Septem-
ber 7, 1915. Campagna assumed only its assets. It would operate
under the name A. Campagna & Co. and included José Ranero as
a partner.
Advertisements for the hotel, already owned by A. Campagna &
Co., appear in AHS, ED, October 2, 1915, BC, December 18, 1915
and LI, March 1, 1916.
190
AHS, ED, September 1, 1915. Schiffino left as his proxy Víctor
F. Thomén (AHS, ED, September 2, 1915).
191
AHS, ED, August 25, 1915.
192
AHS, ED, October 5, 1916.
193
AHS, ED, October 11, 1916. Sobre su construcción, AHS, ED,
December 19, 1916.
194
AHS, ED, February 22, 1916.
195
AHS, ED, February 20, 1916.
196
AL, LI, October 18, 1961.
Information provided by his grandson Marlon Anzelotti
González, September 23, 2019.
197
Francisco Antonio Finizola, born in Vibonati and son of Nico-
las Vicente Finizola and Maria Francesca Cazulla, and Maria
Brigida Pugliese Giffone married in Vibonati on March 3, 1915.
Nicolás Vicente Finizola died in the municipality of Pombal, state
of Paraiba, Brazil, on January 20, 1899.
On her side, Maria Francesca Pugliese (Vibonati, December 10
1905 - Vibonati, February 12, 1983), married Lazaro Finizola in
Vibonati in 1929 (marriage certificate of the Finizola-Pugliese
couple, birth certificate of Maria Francesca Pugliese Giffone and
death certificate of Nicolas Vicente Finizola, provided by Dr. Jose
Tallaj Almanzar, August 26, 2019).
198
AHS, ED, September 1and November 2, 1916. Anzelotti also
sold panama hats, cashmeres and shoes.
199
AHS, BC, December 18, 1915.
200
AHS, ED, April 12, 1907.
201
AHS, EC, September 22, 1900.
202
Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi,
Sociedades, cofradías, escuelas, gre-
mios y otras corporaciones dominicanas
(Santo Domingo: Academia
Dominicana de la Historia, 1975), 56.
203
Manuel Gilbert, “El salitre destruye el Cristo de la loma Isabel
de Torres,”
El Siglo
, October 1, 1999, 2B.
204
Information provided by Jorge Hugo Cavoli Balbuena, 2017.
205
Edwin Espinal Hernández, “A buon´ora: la calle Italia,”
La In-
formación
, May 26 – 27, 1997. See also, “Síndico inaugurará vía
nombre Italia,”
La Información
, May 12, 1997.
206
Norys Sánchez, “Un pedazo de Italia en RD,”
Rumbo
1, no. 20
(June 13, 1994): 11.
THE ITALIAN PRESENCE IN THE CIBAO REGION AND IN SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS