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Pellerano lived in Altamira before settling in Santiago in 1883.
There he was a donor, together with Leonardo Melfi, for the con-
struction of the Catholic temple in that town (AL, ECP, June 17,
1883). He was patented as a merchant in Santiago in 1889 (AL,
ES, March 7, 1889).
34
AL, ECP, May 10, 1885. Mateo Senise, born in Santa Domeni-
ca Talao, was the son of Etanislao Senise and Maria Josefa Schiffi-
no. Married to Angela Durán. He died at the age of 35 on Decem-
ber 18, 1891 (L.6 Def., f.118, a. 4, Oficialía del Estado Civil de la
Primera Circunscripción del municipio de Santiago).
35
AL, ECP, August 23, 1885.
36
AL, LVS, October 23, 1881.
37
AL, ECP, June 17, 1883.
38
Bloise was patented as a mixed store owner in fifth scale in
1885 (AL, ECP, August 23, 1885). In 1889 he was patented as a
merchant (AL, ES, March 7, 1889).
He lived in Salcedo in 1897, where he was a member of the cem-
etery’s factory board in 1898 and president of the city council in
1906 (Polanco Brito and Hugo Eduardo,
Salcedo y su historia
, rev.
ed. [Santiago: UCMM, 1980], 127, 152, 156, 229). He was born on
July 8, 1851. He married Edelmira Disla. Descendants.
39
Nicolás Leone died at home in 1897 (AL, LP, 11 September
1897).
40
In 1893, Luis Trifilio, who sold gold and silver clothing, watch-
es, bracelets, earrings and superior garments, was at the service
of his clients in Bloise’s house while he was in Santiago. After a
few days, he would travel to Moca, Salcedo and San Francisco
de Macorís (AL, LP, October 18, 1893). Nicolas Leone, a seller of
gold and silver clothing, watches, bracelets, earrings and superior
garments, was also temporarily in Bloise’s house in 1893; then
he would go to other cities (AL, LP, December 9, 1893). In 1895,
Luis Trifilio, seller of gold garments, watches, chronometers, di-
amonds, silver bracelets, head ornaments and chains also settled
in Bloise’s house (AL, LP, January 2, 1895).
41
Filippo Hectori Biondi, a physician who graduated from the
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Naples in 1876 (Reynolds
Jossef Pérez Stefan,
Historia de los servicios de salud en La Concepción
de La Vega
[Santo Domingo: Susaeta, 1993], 54), offered his servic-
es in Santiago in 1889 and received “orders” at the establishment
of Francisco Bloise, next to the apothecary of Dr. Pedro Pablo
Dobal (AL, ECP, March 22, 1889).
42
Monseñor Antonio Camilo González,
“Presentación del li-
bro del padre José Luis Sáez titulado: el padre Fantino,”
Camino
,
March 2, 1997.
43
Niza Campos, “El apostolado a la iglesia dominicana del sacer-
dote Fantino Falco, visto desde la óptica del padre Chelo,”
Diario
Libre
, June 5, 2014.
44
Jovino A. Espínola Reyes,
La Vega Histórica
, vol. 2 (Santo Do-
mingo: Ediciones Ferilibro, 2009), 169.
45
“Arzobispo dice padre Fantino fue consciente de su misión,”
Listín Diario
, July 11, 1989, 859.
46
La Casa de Italia y las familias italianas en la República Dominica-
na
(Santo Domingo: Casa de Italia, June 1996).
47
Milcíades Núñez, “Presencia italiana en La Vega,”
Hoy
, Areíto,
July 29, 2017 and August 5, 2017.
48
Jovino A. Espínola Reyes,
La Vega histórica
, vol. 1 (Santo Do-
mingo: Dirección General de la Feria del Libro, 2005), 39-40.
49
Jovino A. Espínola Reyes,
La Vega histórica
, vol. 2 (Santo Do-
mingo: Dirección General de la Feria del Libro, 2009), 34.
50
Reynolds Jossef Pérez Stefan,
“Historia,”
54.
51
Pérez Stefan, op. cit., 132-133.
52
Reynolds Jossef Pérez Stefan,
Guía romántica de La Vega y su
pasado
(Santo Domingo: Susaeta Ediciones Dominicanas, 1994), 98.
53
Espínola Reyes, op. cit., 179-182, and Pérez Stefan, op. cit., 94.
54
Danilo De los Santos,
Memoria de la pintura dominicana – Impul-
so y desarrollo moderno, 1920-1950
, vol. 2 (Santo Domingo: Grupo
León Jimenes, 2003), 51-57.
55
“Fallece el padre Rosario Pilonero Milazzo en La Vega,”
Diario
Libre
, November 9, 2017. See also “Sepultan al maestro salesiano
Rosario Pilonero en Jarabacoa,”
El Nacional,
November 11, 2017.
56
Casa de Italia, op. cit.
57
Graciela Azcárate, “De Calabria a Santo Domingo. La familia
Russo Cino,”
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~domwgw/Flia-Rus-so-Cino.htm.
58
Ángel Russo Gómez,
Club Montañés, sus proyecciones sobre La
Vega de ayer y de hoy. Datos autobiográficos sobre aspectos y vida na-
cional. Familiares sobresalientes y personalidades.
59
Ruggero Tomaselli,
“Raffaele Ciferri”
(Pavía: Universitá degli
studi di Pavia, Industrie lito-tipografiche Mario Ponzio, s.p.a.).
60
José de Jesús Jiménez Olavarrieta,
Dr. Erik Leonard Ekman. Me-
morias botánicas
(Santiago: Editora Central, 1996), 75-76, 79, 82,
91 and Jurgen Hoppe,
Grandes exploradores en tierras de La Espyear-
la
(Santo Domingo: Grupo León Jimenes, 2001), 72, 75, 81.
61
Elpidio José Ortega Álvarez,
Ensayo histórico y arquitectónico de
la ciudad de Monte Cristi
(Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Do-
minicano – Fundación Ortega Álvarez, Inc., 1987), 134-135.
62
José Chez Checo,
El Palacio Nacional 50 annos de historia y arqui-
tectura
, rev. ed. (Santo Domingo: Secretariado Administrativo de
la Presidencia, 2008), 53-61. See also, Casa de Italia, op. cit.
63
Msgr. Dr. Rafael Bello Peguero,
Necrologías 1884-1979 Boletín
Eclesiástico de la Arquidiócesis de Santo Domingo
(Santo Domingo:
Amigo del Hogar, 2009), 48.
64
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 152.
65
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 152.
66
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 199.
67
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 199-200.
68
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 156, 159-161.
69
Casa de Italia, op. cit.
70
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 127, 152, 156, 229.
71
Polanco Brito, op. cit., 172.
72
Ramón Alberto Ferreras,
Jayael - El hijo del Jaya
, vol. 1, rev. ed.
(San Francisco de Macorís: Editorial del Nordeste, 1901), 167.
73
Ferreras, op. cit., 171.
74
Ramón Alberto Ferreras,
Jayael - El hijo del Jaya
, vol. 2, rev.
ed. (San Francisco de Macorís: Editorial del Nordeste, 1991), 322.
Ferreras quotes in this group Amadeo Sturla, but he was Domin-
ican, son of Antonio Sturla, founder of the surname.
75
Ferreras, op. cit., tomo I, 195.
76
Information provided by architect Virgilio Hoepelman.
77
Manuel Mora Serrano, “Un número de la revista L. durante la
ocupación yankee,”
Acento,
August 15, 2018,
https://acento.com.
do/opinion/numero-la-revista-l-la-ocupacion-yankee-8596705.
html.
78
Casa de Italia, op. cit.
79
Casa de Italia, op. cit.
80
José Luis Sáez, “Papeles de comunicación - Cien years del cine
dominicano,”
El Siglo,
May 21, 2000 and José Luis Sáez, “Histo-
ria de un sueño importado - Ensayos sobre el cine en Santo Do-
mingo,” in
Ediciones Siboney
(1982), 25. See also, Tomás Casals
Pastoriza, “Fragmentos de vida,”
La Información,
October 9, 1989;
Filiberto Cruz López,
Historia de los medios de comunicación en
República Dominicana
(Santo Domingo: Editora El Nuevo Diario,
1998), 180-181; Jovino A. Espínola Reyes,
La Vega histórica
, vol. 2
(Santo Domingo: Ediciones Ferilibro, 2009), 31; and Constancio
Cassá,
Escritos de Luis E. Alemar, 1918-1945
(Santo Domingo: Aca-
demia Dominicana de la Historia, 2009), 130.