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ENDNOTES
1 The Italian ancestry of Pedro Francisco Bonó has yet to
be revealed. As stated by historian José Guillermo Guerrero
Sánchez, “He had been fluent in French since childhood, as
his maternal grandmother belonged to a rich French family
from Saint-Domingue, or modern-day Haiti. He Frenchified
his name as Bonnau, Bonneau, or Bonenaux until his father in-
formed him that he was, in fact, Italian and that his grandfather
went by the name Bonó. Guerrero Sánchez and José Guiller-
mo, “Bonó: Precursor de la Historia Social Dominicana,” Clío,
Journal of the Dominican Academy of History (July-December
2006): 172–180.
2 Carlos Larrazábal Blanco, Familias dominicanas, vol. 1 (Santo
Domingo: Dominican Academy of History, 1967), 300–302. Ru-
fino Martínez, Diccionario Biográfico-Histórico Dominicano, 1821-
1930, vol. 1 (Santo Domingo: Autonomous University of Santo
Domingo Press, 1971), 65–67.
3 Antonio Lluberes, SJ, Breve historia de la iglesia dominicana:
1493–1997 (Santo Domingo: Amigo del Hogar, 1998), 114–115.
4 Francisco Gregorio Billini, in Marcos Antonio Martínez Paulino,
Publicaciones periódicas dominicanas desde la colonia, 4 vols.,
ed. Andrés Blanco Díaz (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la
Nación, Universidad Central del Este, 2009), 60. Francisco Gre-
gorio Billini, Obra literaria, in Biblioteca de clásicos dominicanos,
ed. Juan Daniel Balcácer (Santo Domingo: Fundacion Corripio,
1998).
5 Hipólito Billini, Escritos y ensayos, 2 vols., ed. Andrés Blanco
Díaz (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2008).
6 Larrazábal. Familias, vol. 1, 301–302.
7 Mario Bobea Billini, Forjador de sueños, ed. María Ugarte and
Monserrats Prats (Santo Domingo: Amigo del Hogar, 2007).
8 Larrazábal, Familias, vol. 1, 302; and Antinoe Fiallo Billini, in-
terview by Antonio Lluberes, SJ, February 24, 2019.
9 Larrazábal, Familias, vol. 6, 106–109; “Los Pellerano: Una in-
migración que produjo notables,” Areíto, Hoy, May 2, 2005; and
“Los Pellerano de Italia (1 of 2),” Areíto, Hoy, February 6, 2010.
Leonardo Díaz Jáquez, interview by Antonio Lluberes, SJ, July
20, 2019.
10 “El proyecto de constitución y el medio social,” 3191, 3194,
3200, 3203, and 3204, March - April 1900.
11 Larrazábal, Familias 1, 317-318 and Mario Bonetti, conversa-
tion with Antonio Lluberes, SJ, May 10, 2018.
12 Espinal Hernández and Edwin Rafael, conversation with An-
tonio Lluberes, SJ, January 24, 2019.
13 Larrazábal, Familias 6, 230-231, arrozyhuevos.blogspot.
com/2017/06/biografia-salvador-pittaluga-nivar.html.
14 Julio Amable González Hernández, “Inmigrantes italianos a
Quisqueya” (9 of 9).
15 Pedro Conde Sturla, “Botella en el mar. Bibliografía infor-
mal,” Acento, November 28, 2018.
16 Edwin Rafael Espinal Hernández, “Marcio Genealógico,” Hoy,
August 13, 2016. Also see Larrazábal, Familias 5, 1978, 16.
17 For biographical information, see Rafael Molina Morillo, Per-
sonalidades dominicanas, 2006 (Santo Domingo: Editora Corripio,
2006), 825-826.
18 “La memoria nunca es la misma,” https://luismartingomez.
ria-nunca.html.
19 Pedro José Ortega, “Identidad cultural: trasformaciones so-
ciales y retos,” Areito , Hoy, June 1, 2019, 2.
20 Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, “Entrevista con… Santo Domingo,”
June 13, 2019.
21 We have found some information regarding Michelle Mar-
inelli Mastuizi, who published the sports and political newspaper
El Deportista, in October 1955 in Santiago. Cf. Martínez Paulino,
Publicaciones, 245. Giovanni Antonio Mazara is said to have been
from the Sesia region, Piedmont; a veteran soldier of the Third
Company, he was married in 1812 in Santo Domingo to Igna-
cia Arjona Ramo, and served as the society pages editor of the
newspaper El Heraldo, 1933. Others say that he was a native of
Burco Dalis, a veteran soldier of the Third Company in 1813. Cf.
Martínez Paulino, Publicaciones, 193 and Larrazábal, Familias 4,
112. Giovanni Ferrúa Lluberes, an attorney, journalist and paint-
er, the son of Juan (Giovanni) Ferrua. Juan and two other broth-
ers founded the first lithography press in the country. Giovanni
wrote for El Caribe and Ahora magazine. He focused on cinema,
art, culture in general, and manners. His stories and scenes about
commerce and the street life along Calle El Conde, the most im-
portant street in the city of Santo Domingo, are particularly note-
worthy. Víctor Manuel Grimaldi Céspedes (1949 -), journalist, pol-
itician, historian, and diplomat, possible descendant of Giuseppe
Grimaldi Carpresse, born in 1891 in Scalea, Cosenza, a business-
man who married Mercedes Suriel Suazo in Santo Domingo.