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vor of Marcelino Colón, Marcos Ventura and Andrés Ventura by
María Angela Dipuglia Vda. Bloise and Francisco Bloise, by them-
selves and on behalf of Fortunato Pappaterra, married to María
Anunciata [sic] Bloise. Angelo Bloise had bought the land from
Juan Inocencio Domígnez on April 23, 1892, according to an act
executed by the notary Joaquín Dalmau).
125
L.13 M., f.332, a.76, Oficialía del Estado Civil de la Tercera
Circunscripción del municipio de Santiago.
126
AL, LP, October 17, 1893. Biaggiotti, a native of Barga, died
on October 14, 1893 (L.4 Def., f.146, a.173, Oficialía de la Ter-
cera Circunscripción del municipio de Santiago). His son Antonio
(AL, LP, October 31, 1893) died on the 30th of the same month.
He had married at the age of 35 on January 13, 1892 with Rita
Adelaida Andreu, 31 years old, daughter of Bruno Andreu and
Rita de Castro (L.2 Mat., f.274, a.393, Iglesia de La Altagracia).
Rita Andreu, widow, married Etanislao Díaz, 53 years old, on
February 2, 1895. He was the widower of Celia Andreu and the
son of Santiago Díaz and Isabel Siant, from Gurabo (L.9 Mat.,
f.102, a.11, Oficialía de la Tercera Circunscripción del municipio
de Santiago). Two daughters were born to the Biaggiotti-Andreu
couple: María Altagracia, married to Francisco Toimil, and Ana
Celia, wife of Ramón Donhert (ANFR, PN: IPR, a.n.77, f.475-484,
14 May 1929).
127
L.1 Def., f.39, a.592, Cathedral.
128
AHS, ED, June 20, 1910. Pilade Stefani offered his professional
services at 30 Del Sol Street.
He was the director of Public Works of the city council in 1898
(AHS, BM 289, September 30, 1898, a.s.August 9, 1898. See also,
AHS, BM 289, September 30, 1898, a.s. August 20, 1898). In 1901,
Councilman Agustín Acevedo denounced that he was illegally
practicing as a surveyor because he was not a Dominican, but
Stefani argued that his title had been correctly issued by the Pres-
ident of the Republic (AHS, BM 364, 21 August 1901, a.s.4 May
1901). In 1902 he was awarded the “proventos” on urban and ru-
ral leases of the common (AHS, BM 385, 15 May 1902, a.s. March
18, 1902. An excerpt of the contract appears in AHS, BM 386, 31
May 1902. See also, AHS, BM 400, February 25, 1903, a.s. No-
vember 2, 1902). In 1903 he was re-elected as a “rentier” of said
provinces (AHS, BM 401, 30 March 1903, a.s. January 6, 1903 and
AHS, ED, 19 February 1903). He also performed that function
in 1906 (AHS, BM 530, February 7, 1907, a.s. January 7, 1907). In
1907 Francisco Villanueva replaced him (AHS, BM 529, January
30, 1907, a.s. January 4, 1907). In 1908 he was appointed munici-
pal surveyor (AHS, ED, May 22, 1908).
129
Godeluppi died on April 17, 1898 at the age of 48. He was a
member of the Military Band (L.8 Def., f.168, a.66, Oficialía del
Estado Civil de la Primera Circunscripción del municipio de San-
tiago). He arrived in the city in 1896. He announced himself as
a professor of vocal and instrumental music, violin, viola, dou-
ble bass and wind instruments; orchestra teacher, violinist and
instrumentalist (AL, LP, September 30 and January 15, 1897).
130
In 1908 he was the administrator of the magazine of the so-
ciety Amantes de la Luz (AHS, ED, January 9, 1908), which he
had joined in 1907 (AHS, ED, November 28, 1907); and in 1910
he was one of the directors and editors of the newspaper
Ego sun
(AHS, ED, November 22, 1910. See also, AHS, ED, November 21
and 23 and December 5, 1910), and in 1913 he edited the political
newspaper
El Demócrata
(AHS, ED, July 26, 1913). A follower of
Juan Isidro Jimenes (AHS, ED, March 17, 1913), on the provincial
board of the Jimenist Party he was vice president (1914) (AHS,
ED, November 18, 1914) and general secretary (1916) (AHS,
ED, October, 17 and 30, 1916). He had literary inclinations, as
revealed by some of his poems published in 1908 (AHS, ED, Jan-
uary 15, 1908; February 22, 1908; March 3, 1908; and October 5,
1908), but his livelihood was based on trade: he was patented as
a merchant in 1903 (AHS, BM 402, April 23, 1903) and a jeweler
in 1906 (AHS, BM 509, September 12, 1906). Between 1908 and
1909, he joined José Francisco Taveras in the Taveras y Schiffino
commercial company, which operated between 1908 and 1909
(AHS, EN and ED, December 28, 1908, and ED, April 12, 1909).
He became engaged in 1907 to Virginia Castro (AHS, ED, April
15, 1907), who he married in 1912 (AHS, ED, September 16,
1912 and L. 5 Mat., f. 127, a.195, Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
Church). In December 1914 he was appointed Municipal Inspec-
tor of Alcohol (AHS, BM 816, February 6, 1915, a.s.December
30, 1914), but he resigned that position in February 1915 when
he accepted a post in Puerto Plata (AHS, BM 831, April 22, 1915,
a.s.February 19, 1915). He died on May 26, 1932 in San José de
Las Matas, where he had gone in search of health (L. 18 Def., f.
13, a.73, Oficialía del Estado Civil de la Tercera Circunscripción
del municipio de Santiago and AGN, LI, May 27, 1932).
131
AHS, ED, September 27, 1905.
132
AHS, ED, September 30, 1905.
133
CL, t.18, p.623. Cozza agreed to return to his country in 1917
together with Dr. Manuel Senise and the young Blas Di Franco
Russo, to be part of the troops that would serve in the European
war (AGN, LD, May 26, 1917). However, the news of the sink-
ing of the Italian steamer Giuseppe Verdi in the outskirts of New
York made them desist (Blas Di Franco Russo’s autobiographical
notes, 1998. Author’s archive).
134
Grisolía revalidated his degree from the University of Naples
Medical School at the Professional Institute (AHS, ED, October
27, 1911). The Executive granted him an exequatur for the exer-
cise of his profession the same year of his arrival (CL, t.21, p.333).
He was a general surgeon, specializing in urinary tract and fe-
male diseases (AHS, ED, December 12. 1911). He was an officer
in the Italian army and practiced his profession in Puerto Plata
until 1919. He died in his native Santa Domenica Talao in 1941,
the year in which he served as honorary consul of the Dominican
Republic in Naples (AGN, LD, February 19, 1941).
135
AHS, ED, June 6, 1911. Senise was authorized to practice as a
doctor by an exequatur granted the same year of his arrival (CL,
t.20, p.344).
136
AHS, ED, January 26, 1912.
137
His marriage certificate allows us to establish that Pardi was
his real surname (L.6 Mat., f.46, a.136, Santiago Cathedral).
138
Nardi married Aurora Valdez Ramírez of San Juan de la
Maguana on November 3, 1907 (AHS, ED, November 4, 1907
and L.6 Mat.) He lived in concubinage with Angelica Pichardo,
wife of Jose Oguis Estrella, who divorced her for adultery in 1910
(AHS, ED, May 17, 1910). Nardi died in Santiago on August 17,
1919 (L. 4 Def., f.119, a.612, Santiago Cathedral). Aurora Valdez
Ramírez died in Santiago on October 1, 1942. They had only
one daughter, Roma Selene del Carmen (Carmela) Pardi Valdez
(Santiago, 1908 - Santiago, 1979), who married Cándido Angel
González Díaz (Santiago, 1900- Santiago, 1986), who in turn had
three children: Rhina Mercedes Aurora (n.1932), Hugo Francisco
(f.1962) and Víctor Ramón González Pardi. (f.1960).
139
In his establishment, located at 52 Del Sol Street, Francisco
Bloise sold Italian wine, Bologna sausage, vermouth, brandy,
sardines, anchovies, apricots, pears, peaches, cherries, and olives
(AL, EDi, July 29, 1891). In 1893 his haberdashery and grocery
store were located at 69 Del Sol Street (AL, LP, October 18,
1893). Lorenzo Pellerano in Comercio Street No.17 (AL, EDi,
July 29, 1891) sold Monferrato table wine, imported from Genoa
(AL, EDi, August 12, 1891), while Francisco Pellerano, located in