The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic

THE ITALIAN LEGACY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Luis Rotellini Fago (1820 – 1864) came to the Dominican Republic from Rome. The son of Pedro Rotel-

lini and Serafina Fago, he became a physician.

He married Gregoria Manuela (Evelina) Coen Mansuit, a

Santo Domingo native with Sephardic Jewish ancestry, on April 2, 1848, at the Cathedral of Cathedral of Santo

Domingo.

Antonio Romano de Rivera, a native of Montecalvo, Avellino, Campania and the son of Iacomo (Santia-

go) Romano and Teresa de Rivera, he married María Josefa Díaz Félix on February 14, 1814 at the Cathedral

of Santo Domingo.

They are the progenitors of the Romano de Azua family of Compostela, from whom the

Romano-Noble, Lambertus-Romano, Romano-Pou,

Báez-Romano and Pellerano-Romano families, among

others, descend.

Carlos Demallistre, a native of Piedmont (the names of his parents are not known), a baker by profes-

sion, and the widower of Juana Inés Montero, married María de la Encarnación Hinojosa Siancas, a Santo

Domingo native and the widow of Antonio Garrido Abreu (whom she had married on April 12, 1825) on April

26, 1829 at the Cathedral of Santo Domingo.

One child, Juan Francisco Demallistre Hinojosa (1830–1890),

became a prominent primary school teacher sometime around 1850.

The family of Angelo

Porcella Vicini and

Leonor Cohen de

Marchena in the early

twentieth century

(Photo provided by the

Porcella descendants).