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Giacomo (Santiago) Cambiaso arrived from Genoa, Liguria, with his chil-
dren Catalina, Juan Bautista, Luis Francisco, and Giuditta Cambiaso Chios-
sone. Their mother Rosa Chiossone never followed. Giacomo Cambiaso died
in Santo Domingo on December 11, 1858.
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His children married in the Do-
minican Republic and played roles in the nation’s momentous history.
Catalina Cambiaso Chiossone married her townsman Antonio Ventura
Terola in 1850. More information will be provided about his family later. In
1862, Giuditta Cambiaso Chiossone married another townsman Miguel Ven-
tura Danielli, to whom we will return as well.
Juan Bautista Cambiaso Chiossone was born in Genoa on September
12, 1820. He married Isabel Sosa (Cotes), illegitimate child of Juan Cotes and
María Luisa Sosa, at the Santa Bárbara Church in Santo Domingo on June
11, 1843. Together they had eight children who, in turn, had many children
of their own. Juan Bautista, a merchant and a general, was also the founder
of the Dominican Navy. He purchased his business on March 15, 1845, in the
vicinity of the Reales Ataranzas, which had formerly belonged to Juan José
Duarte Rodríguez,
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the father of Patricio and Juan Pablo Duarte Díez. He
also maintained cordial relations with the Trinitarians. He died in Santo Do-
mingo on June 23, 1886.
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Luis Francisco Cambiaso Chiossone (1830–1907), brother of the afore-
mentioned Juan Bautista Cambiaso Chiossone, another native of Genoa, mar-
ried Robertina Robert at the Legation of Italy on November 9, 1868. After
her death, he married Bertina Latour Crane (1858–1944) at the Cathedral of
Santo Domingo.
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He also had children with Paula Burgos. He was a mer-
chant, and served as chargé d›affaires of Italy in the Dominican Republic and
Consul General of King Victor Emmanuel II (1820–1878; r. 1861-78) in 1877
and Umberto I (1844–1900; r. 1878-1900) in 1894. In association with Salvador
Cambiaso, he owned the Cambiaso Hermanos company. He also owned, among other properties, the San
Luis ranch in the Pajarito sector (Villa Duarte) which was seized in 1887 as well as property located at Calle
Mercedes No. 9, Unit 21.
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Antonio Ventura Terola was another immigrant from Genoa. The son of Michelangelo Ventura and
María Terola, he married Catalina Cambiaso Chiossone at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo on June 9, 1850 as
mentioned above.
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Six children are recorded, but nothing is known about them.
Giovanni Battista Ventura, another Genoese, married Catherina Danielli. They arrived in Santo Do-
mingo with three children, Miguel, Giovanni, and Luisa Ventura Danielli, during the 1860s. Miguel Ventura
Danielli, born around 1839; he married Giuditta Cambiaso Chiossone (mentioned above) on May 3, 1862.
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One of their children, Adriana Rosa Catarina Ventura Cambiaso, married her relative and fellow townsman
Antonio Sturla Chiossone.
Giovanni Ventura Danielli, born in Genoa around 1854, married Juliana Herminia Campillo Linares
(1869–1897), great-granddaughter of Genoese immigrants, in Santo Domingo on November 15, 1884.
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Upon
her death, he married Josefa Lamarche Pérez-Guerra, the granddaughter of Patricio Juan Isidro Pérez, on Au-
gust 12, 1900.
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Luisa Ventura Danielli married the Genoese Angel Nicolás Dodero Villabona, son of Jacobo
Dodero and Maddalena Villobona, on October 7, 1882; they did not have any children.
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No kinship between
the Ventura Terola and the Ventura Danielli families has been established, even though both come from the
same area.
Juan Bautista
Cambiaso (1820
– 1886), from the
José Gabriel García
collection, National
Archives.
© Antonio Guerra
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO SANTO DOMINGO