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81 Arthur Sosa, Luis and Arthur Nouel, and Víctor José, “La fa-
milia Arzeno,” Hoy, Areíto, Cápsulas genealógicas (July 2, 2005).
82 González Hernández, July Amable “Unique surnames (5 of
8),” Hoy, Areíto, Cápsulas genealógicas, July 7, 2012. See also,
González Hernández, July Amable “Inmigrantes italianos a Quis-
queya (5 of 9),” Hoy, Areíto, Cápsulas genealógicas, April 28,
2019.
83 Federico Carlos Álvarez, “Inquietudes of a Genealogy Aficio-
nado,” Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía, Boletín Raíces, no. 6
(July-December, 1994): 8.
84 González Hernández, Ibid.
85 Héctor Moya Cordero, Apuntes para la historia de Sánchez (San-
to Domingo: Editora Alfa y Omega, 1986), 34 and Mercedes Mata
Olivo, et al., Sánchez (cien years de vida municipal) (Santo Domin-
go: Editorial del Nordeste, 1986), 35.
86 Graciela Thomén Ginebra, “Rainieri, divino tesoro,” Hoy,
Areíto, Cápsulas genealógicas, February 8, 2020; February 15,
2020; February 22, 2020; February, 29, 2020; March 7, 2020;
March 14, 2020; March 21, 2020; March 28, 2020; April 4, 2020;
and April 18, 2020.
87 José Augusto Puig Ortiz and Robert S. Gamble, Puerto Plata: la
conservación de una ciudad. Inventario. Ensayo histórico-arquitectóni-
co (Santo Domingo: Editora Alfa y Omega, 1978), 213-214.
88 Puig Ortiz and Gamble, op. cit., 188.
89 Casa de Italia, op. cit.
90 Autobiographical notes of Blas Di Franco Russo, 1998. Ar-
chives of the author. See also, Juan Ventura, “Don Blas Di Fran-
co,” Acento, March 31, 2019,
don-blas-di-franco-8665423.html.
91 Information provided by Mateo Perrone Polanco.
92 Félix Spignolio, son of Luis Spignolio and Arcangela Fasana,
married Salomé Garrido, then 33 years old, in Santo Domingo on
November 13, 1886 at the age of 42. She was the daughter of Juan
Garrido and Trinidad Aristi, born in Baní (L.13 Mat., f.104, a.98,
Santo Domingo Cathedral).
93 The Spignolio Mena brothers were children of Pedro Spigno-
lio Garrido and Cornelia Mena, daughter of Miguel Antonio
Mena and Adelaida Steinkopf, married in Santo Domingo on
June 24, 1905 (L.16 Mat., f.56, a.2, Santo Domingo Cathedral).
94 Juan Ventura, “Historians from Puerto Plata, members of the
Dominican Academy of History,” Dominican Academy of Histo-
ry, Clio, no. 173 (January-June, 2007): 226.
95 Marianne De Tolentino, “Impulsos creativos y energía,” Col-
son errante exhibition catalog, Bellapart Museum (Santo Domin-
go: Amigo del Hogar, 2008), 125.
96 José Chez Checo, Ideario de Luperón: 1839-1897, rev. ed.
Comisión Permanente de Efemérides Patrias (Santo Domingo:
Editora Taller, 1997), 24, 286.
97 Juan Ventura, “Carlos Grisolía: first senator of Puerto Plata,
after the execution of Trujillo,” Acento, April 7, 2019, https://
to-plata-despues-del-ajusticiamiento-trujillo-8668174.html.
98 Gregorio Elías Penzo, Men and women of note and benefactors of
Samaná (1493-1910) (Santo Domingo: Editora Búho, 2003); and
Emilio Rodríguez Demorizi, Samaná, pasado y porvenir (Santo Do-
mingo: Sociedad Dominicana de Geografía, 1973).
99 Miguel José Vásquez and Gladys Jacobo, La Altagracia en sus
140 años. Apuntes para su historia (Santo Domingo, 2014), 32.
100 LP (October 7, 1892), quoted by Antonio Camilo, “Programa
de la celebración del Cuarto Centenario en Santiago,” Listín Dia-
rio, October 14, 1992.
101 AL, EDi, August 29, 1892.
102 “The first Cadillac that came to the country was brought in
1924 by Anselmo Copello,” Hoy, October 23, 1999.
103 Tomás Hernández Franco, “Aquiles Zorda,” in Obras comple-
tas, vol. 2 (Santo Domingo: Sociedad Dominicana de Bibliófilos,
2019), 529-34.
104 Casa de Italia, op. cit.
105 Joaquín Balaguer, “Speech when receiving the Great Cross
of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic,” January 9, 1995,
Listín Diario, January 10, 1995, 8. This opinion is expressed by
Félix Evaristo Mejía.
106 Danilo de los Santos, Cámara de Comercio y Producción de San-
tiago historia centenaria 1914-2014 (Santo Domingo: Cámara de
Comercio y Producción de Santiago, 2016), p.38.
107 Information provided by his daughter Australia Sassone and
his great-grandson Joel Carlo Román.
108 Edwin Espinal Hernández, “Inmigración,” 91.
109 “Institutional Philosophy. History of IPISA,” file:///C:/Us-
ers/Owner/Downloads/Filosofia%20Institucional.pdf.
110 De los Santos, op. cit., 762, 770.
111 Severo Rivera, “Orlando Menicucci: The National Biennial of
Plastic Artists is our heritage,” Diario Libre, November 2, 2017,
ucci-la-bienal-nacional-de-artistas-plasticos-es-nuestro-patrimo-
nio-BI8497740.
112 César A Franco, «Beginnings of Cycling in the City of Santiago
de los Caballeros,” El Siglo , Ciudad Corazón, June 25, 1997.
113 Edwin Espinal Hernández, “Doctor Rafael Cantisano Arias: in
memoriam,” Hoy, Areíto, Cápsulas genealógicas, November 11,
2017.
114 “Juan Héctor José - Bullo - Stefani,”
115 Edwin Espinal Hernández, “María Electa Stefani Espaillat,
first woman filmmaker of the Dominican Republic,” Third Na-
tional Film Congress, Directorate General of Film (DGCINE),
February 6, 2020.
116 Modesto Rodríguez, “Guerra del 24 de abril - Campagna niega
versión de Jottin Cury y le advierte que se retracte,” Listín Diario,
May 4, 2007.
117 Miguel Ponce, “Locutora Minucha Pezzotti de Luna
Dies,” El Caribe, May 29, 2019,
do/2019/05/29/fallece-locutora-minucha-pezzotti-de-luna.
118 Information provided by his daughter María Raquel Pugliese
Martínez.
119 Edwin Espinal Hernández, “Aspecto genealógico de la inmi-
gración italiana en Santiago,” Instituto Dominicano de Geneal-
ogía, Raíces, no. 6, July-December, 1994.
120 AHS, BM 162, August 22, 1893.
121 Deschamps, op cit., 271. Some Italians were nomads: Antonio
Palomo was in the city for fifteen days in the tobacco shop El Fé-
nix, in Bonilla and Ca., offering his services as gilder, silversmith
and nickelsmith, and his specialty in revolvers, cutlery, bells and
bicycles (AHS, LE, 8 and 10 October 1901), while Antonio Cer-
nicchiaro, gilder and silversmith, specialist in lamps, candlesticks,
lanterns, ecclesiastical ornaments and musical instruments,
stayed in front of the railroad station, on the premises of the for-
mer hotel Tres Antillas (AHS, LE, 9 November 1901).
122 “Censo,” 42.
123 Ministero, op. cit., 50. The departure of the man caused a void
in the family and affected the demographic structure of Italy: in
186l 50.9% of the population of Italy was made up of men, while
by 1911 this sector represented 50.4%.
124 Angelo Bloise was already living in Santiago in 1892 (ANSR,
PN: JD, a.n.37, February 17, 1914. Ratification of the sale of two
ropes and 16 sticks of land in San Francisco de Quinigua in fa-
THE ITALIAN PRESENCE IN THE CIBAO REGION AND IN SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS