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CHAPTER 43
Angiolino Vicini Trabucco (1880–1961)
An Immigrant Who Never Forgot
His Homeland (Testimonial)
By Guillermo Rodríguez Vicini
Lawyer and Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy
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our members of a family from Zoagli, Genoa, Italy, immigrated to the Dominican Republic at the
end of the twentieth century. The trunk of that family tree was planted by Angelo María Vicini and
Anna Cánepa, who had four children:
1.
Giuseppe Vicini Cánepa, who married María Trabucco in Zoagli, Genoa;
2.
María Vicini Cánepa, who married Andrea Porcella Giacomo in Italy;
3.
Juan Bautista Vicini Cánepa, born in Zoagli in 1847, married to Mercedes Laura Perdomo Santamaría;
and
4.
Andrés Vicini Cánepa, born in Italy in 1848, married to María de Jesús Castillo and later Brígida Josefa
Frías. These four emigrants, who departed Italy in the nineteenth century, left not only numerous branches of
productive descendants but a lasting legacy for all Dominicans and Italians.
Angiolino Vicini Trabucco was the son of Giuseppe Vicini Cánepa, who married María Trabucco in Zo-
agli, Italy. He was born on September 27, 1880, in the city of Zoagli, a town near Genoa, Italy. Angiolino
immigrated to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on March 23, 1896, from Zoagli, Genoa. At age 16, he
boarded the “Blanca Aspacia” schooner. Angelo Vicini was greeted at the banks of the Ozama River by his
uncle Juan Bautista Vicini Cánepa, who affectionately called him Angiolino. He lived with his uncle during the
first years following his arrival, during which time he learned about the business of importing Italian products.
The warehouse was located across from the Nazareno church, or Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor.
They later moved it to Calle del Comercio, currently known as Calle Isabel la Católica.
Angiolino worked in the accounting department of the Canevaro-Vicini company. In addition to his reg-
ular duties at the company, he operated two separate businesses. The first was located on Calle Plateros,
currently Calle Arzobispo Meriño, and the other was situated on Calle Ozama. Both were dedicated to the
exportation of coffee, cacao, and tobacco to Genoa, Italy.
Angiolino married Dilia Ariza Lapuente, the daughter of Miguel Ariza Janse and Isidora Lapuente. To-
gether they had six children: José Delio (1910-2008), who married Purísima Concepción Baher Cabral (1906-
2004); Celeste Elena (1912-2003), who married Carlos Federico Rodríguez Jimenes (1913-2006); Fiume (died in
1963), who married Raquel Altagracia Alonso (died in 2000); Italia Nettina (1923-2018), who married George
Klus Moraline; Franz Augusto (1925-2014), who married Castalia Santamaría (died in 2010); and Clara Isidora
Teresa (born in 1929), who married José Narciso Alberti Alfonseca (1920-2015).
He later focused on acquiring real estate, and ultimately purchased all of the northeast section of the city
of Santo Domingo, as well as immense properties located in Bahía de Andrés, also known as Punta Caucedo.