The Italian Legacy in the Dominican Republic

THE ITALIAN LEGACY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

1894 at the Santa Lucia de Las Matas de Farfán Church.

Their descendants in Azua are the Ciccone-Comas,

the Ciccone-Recio, etc.

Rocco Capano, a native of Santa Lucia di Serino, Avellino, Campania, arrived in the country with his wife

Rosina Mosca sometime around 1905, evidently from Cap-Haïtien (their second son Antonio

was born in

that city). Another son named Rocco (Roquito) was born on April 18, 1904, in Santa Lucia.

Their daughter

Rafaella was born in 1909 in Azua. Rocco was the founder of the Novedad Italiana company in Azua in 1910.

A street in Azua bears their name. The Capano-Ogando and Noboa-Capano families settled in Azua, whereas

the Capano-Santoni established roots in Santo Domingo.

Paulino Cavallo Arnao, a native of Piedmont and son of Giuseppe Cavallo and Margarita Arnao, emi-

grated to Puerto Rico where he lived in 1886, and worked as the keeper of an estate in the coffee-producing

area of Yauco. There he married Puerto Rico native Genara Rodríguez Santos; they lived in Barahona. Paulino

Cavallo is credited with the scientific cultivation of coffee in the Polo, Barahona region (Official Gazette No.

1514 of October 10, 1903). They had 12 children and many descendants in Barahona and Santo Domingo.

The children of Felice Salvucci (or Salvuccio) and Angela del Giudijo, both natives of Palermo, are Dona-

to Salvucci del Giudijo;

Francisco Salvucci del Giudijo,

married to Gaetana María Gesualdo Milod in San-

to Domingo on February 19, 1897;

Cristóbal Salvucci del Giudijo who married Victoriana Soriano in 1886.

Nicolás Alterio Cerosueli (1873-1942) a native of Naples, Campania and son of Cosimo Alterio and

Enmanuella Cerosueli, married Gaetana María Gesualdo Milod in Santo Domingo on December 21, 1912.

Their descendants include, among others, the Alterio-Guerrero, De Lillo-Alterio and Di Carlo-Alterio families.

Angel Daneri Regonne (1875 – 1942),

son of Giovanni Daneri and Rosa Regonne, married Mercedes

Martínez Noboa in Azua. Their family is well-established, and their descendants include the Daneri-Matos and

the Daneri-Calderón families.

Héctor Tamburini Compartico,

native of Venice and son of Eugenio Tamburini and Teresa Compar-

tico, married Azua native Josefa Isabel Roca Suero on January 28, 1899, at the Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

Church in Azua.

Their son Héctor Tamburini Roca married Gloria María Díaz Capobianco in September

1940. These families established roots in Barahona, San Pedro de Macorís, and Santo Domingo.

Genaro Valentino Germarelli, native of Avellino, Campania and son of Giuseppe Valentino and Car-

men Germarelli, married his compatriot Marina Sardi Sardi at the Nuestra Señora de Regla Church of Baní on

April 9, 1893.

Their son Emilio César Valentino Sardí was editor-in-chief of the

Macorís

newspaper in 1940,

and the registrar for the Office of Vital Records in San

Pedro de Macorís in 1946.

Esteban Rossi (1829–1889),

a farmer by profes-

sion, married Baní native Catalina Cabral Casódo, a

descendant and relative of the Cabral Aybar and Cabral

Luna families, who were heroes of Dominican inde-

pendence, at the Nuestra Señora de Regla Church of

Baní on October 27, 1856. The Rossi family is very

prominent in El Maniel and San José de Ocoa.

José Schiffino Catanzariti, native of Santa Do-

menica Talao, Cosenza, Calabria and son of Mateo

Schiffino and Rosa Catanzariti, emigrated to the Do-

minican Republic via Puerto Plata in 1891. He was a

forest inspector and the head of botanical affairs at the

Ministry of Agriculture in 1946. As a botanist, he clas-

sified 175 species of trees belonging to Dominican flo-

ra. He married Baní native Agueda Mercedes Blandino

Mr. José Schiffino

Catanzariti’s sawmill,

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138,

1918.