The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic

Ciriaco Landolfi Juliana (1856–1941), a native of the Avellino region of Campania and son of Carmen

Landolfi and Amalia Juliana, travelled to the Dominican Republic for the installation of the organ at the Ca-

thedral of Santo Domingo. He was an organ maker by profession. He married a Santo Domingo native, María

Dolores Beauregard Troncoso (1859–1938), in the Cathedral of Santa María la Menor on February 26, 1886.

Their offspring include a grandson, the historian, writer, diplomat, and university professor Ciriaco Landolfi

Rodríguez (1927–2018).

Agustín Baldisseri Magnani, a native of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Tuscany, son of Angelo Petro Bald-

isseri and Catalina Magnani, and a musician, married El Seibo native Gautreau Santín at the Cathedral of Santo

Domingo on June 30, 1863.

Felice (Félix) Spignolio Fasana (1824–1888), a native of Milan, Lombardy, son of Luis Spignolio and Ar-

cangela Fasana, and a storekeeper, he married Baní native María Salomé Garrido Aristati in the Cathedral of

Santo Domingo on November 13, 1866.

The family established roots in Santo Domingo and Puerto Plata.

Miguel Fittipaldi Perce entered the country in 1903 via Santo Domingo. A coppersmith by trade, he ar-

rived with his wife Dominga Carbucci and their five children. In 1944 at the age of 94, he lived at Calle Padre

Billini No. 103 in Santo Domingo. Most of this family emigrated to the United States, and only the Fittipal-

di-Viler family remains in the Dominican Republic.

José Nicolás Milanesse Roboti (1867 – 1932), a native of Solero, Alessandria, Piedmont, son of Giovanni

Milanesse and Camila Roboti, and an ironsmith by profession, married María Julia Caminero Báez in Baní on

May 1, 1895. Upon her death, he married María Josefa Bove Rivas in Azua de Compostela on September 23,

1901.

Vicente Bove Farrana, son of Domingo Bove and María Josefa Farrana and presumably a native of Cam-

pania, married María Encarnación (Mariquita) Rivas Santamaría on March 29, 1886 at the Nuestra Señora

de los Remedios Church in Azua.

They were the progenitors of the Andújar-Bove, Bove-Navarro, Milan-

esse-Bove (mentioned above), and Pimentel-Bove families established in Azua. The last name Bove also ap-

pears written as Boves and even Bobe.

Nicolás María Ciccone Vitiello (1876–1940), a native of Teora, Avellino, Campania, and son of Salva-

tore Ciccone and Concepción Vitiello, married El Mate native Carolina Celia Ramírez Aquino on June 21,

Group photo. From

left: Luis Tejera

Bonetti, Emiliano

Tejera, Luis Cambiaso,

Colombina Pittaluga,

Alejandro Llenas, and

Emilio Tejera Bonetti.

Nación

Margarita Porcella

Cohen,

LETRAS

22,

1917.

ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO SANTO DOMINGO