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AHS, BM 121, October 16, 1891, a.s. September 5, 1891. The
city council allowed them to practice with the patents issued by
the La Vega town council - for which they paid a minor fee - un-
til they provided for those issued in Santiago. From this group,
Paonesa returned to La Vega in 1892, leaving Prospero Amado
Maiolino as her representative in Santiago (AL, EDi, September
17, 1892).
152
Angel Logardo [sic] was a janitor at Club Santiago (AHS, ED,
December 11, 1909); Enrique Ferroni was the manager of the
sawmill La Fe, owned by Augusto Espaillat Sucesores, in 1907
(ANSR: PN: JD, a.n.44, May 31, 1907, annex) and partner and
traveler of the cigar factory La Matilde in 1909 (AHS, ED, April 6,
1909) and Blas Logaldo corriere of the Hotel Garibaldi (AHS, ED,
May 8, 1911).
Blas (Biagio) Logaldo de Antonio was born in Santa Domenica
Talao, Cosenza, Italy, in 1892. He married America Mercedes
Minervino, daughter of Francisco Minervino. He was the broth-
er of Angel Logaldo (Information provided by grandson Biagio
Logaldo Forestieri Minervino, June 24, 2019).
153
Among these were Francisco Schiffino, awarded in the Indus-
trial Competition of the Liceo del Yaque in 1903 (AHS, ED, June
6, 1903), undoubtedly the same F. Schiffino patented as the own-
er of a tailor’s shop in 1899 (AHS, BM 328, April 10, 1900, a.s.
December 30, 1899), and Vittorio Zaltron, owner of the Tailoring
shop Italo Dominicana, located in Ex Convento Street, next to
Campagna Brothers (AHS, ED, June 12 and July 9, 1907. See also,
AHS, ED, August 24, 1907).
154
Italian shoemakers were Pascual Petito (AHS, EC, December
18, 1900, LE, January 11, 1902, and ED, January 3,1907), Domeni-
co Villari (AHS, ED, October 19, 1911) and N. Farsola (AHS, ED,
March 30, 1912).
155
Among these are Perrone Hermanos, established at 36 Cuesta
Blanca Street, and those who fixed umbrellas, beds, sewing ma-
chines and fine furniture (AHS, ED, August 1 and 12, 1905) and
Luigi Perroni, who lost his mind in 1907; by then he had been re-
siding “for several years” in the city (AHS, ED, October 21, 1907).
The umbrella maker Luis Perrone moved from Comercio Street
to Beller Street, in front of the Alianza Cibaeña, in 1907 (AHS,
ED, December 9, 1907).
156
José Leonetti installed his watch shop El Vesuvio in 1906,
on the corner of Comercio and Santa Ana streets. He fixed all
kinds of watches of all brands: living room, pocket and men’s and
women’s (AHS, ED, August 9, 1906. See also, AHS, ED, January
3, 1907).
157
Pedro Stefani, in his workshop on La Amargura Street, made
artificial stone vases for flowers and candy molds (AHS, EC, Feb-
ruary 5, 1901); he repaired sewing machines, chain stitchers, dou-
ble stitchers, hand and foot sewing machines (AHS, ED, June 24,
1907); he silvered objects, tinned pots, and made molds for candy,
plaster and Roman foundation work, and factory moldings (AHS,
ED, July 3, 1905. See also, AHS, ED, July 6, 1905).
158
Fernando Viggiani is cited as a pledge. He died on September
10, 1910. He was staying at the Hotel Garibaldi (AHS, ED, Sep-
tember 12, 1910).
159
Among the Italians patented as handworkers are Eugenio Le-
onetti and Luis Ciliberti (AHS, BM 402, April 23, 1903). Ciliberti
also appears in AHS, BM 386, May 31, 1902.
160
Italo de Angelis is designated as such (AHS, ED, April 17,
1914). In 1915 he decorated El Colmado (AHS, ED, December
10, 1915). He died in Santiago on November 3, 1931 at the age
of 55. He was the husband of Sofía Sánchez and son of Galletano
de Angelis and Luisa de Senada (L.1 Def., f.95, a.238, Oficialía
del Estado Civil de la Segunda Circunscripción del municipio de
Santiago). Under the patent of grocery store appear Francisco
Pezzotti (AHS, BM 333, May 31, 1900 and BM 389, July 12, 1902),
J. Garibaldi Caputo (AHS, BM 365, August 28, 1901) and Angel
Oliva (AHS, BM 387, June 10, 1902).
Lorenzo Pellerano, owner of the Central Bakery for 1899, in front
of the Central Park and the Consistorial Palace (Vetilio Alfau
Durán, “Contribution to the bibliography of the great Domini-
can popular poet Juan Antonio Alix,” in
Incháustegui
, ed. Arístides
and Delgado Malagón Blanca; “Vetilio Alfau Durán en Anales ”,
158), appears patented as a grocer and baker in 1900 (AHS, BM
322, January 31, 1900). J.G. Caputo, who we assume is the same J.
Garibaldi Caputo, was already listed as a merchant in 1902 (AHS,
BM 389, July 12, 1902). In 1907 José Caputo, perhaps the same J.
Garibaldi Caputo, appears with a patent of grocery store (AHS,
BM 534, February 28, 1907).
Son of Gerolamo Pellerano and Colombina Amco (sic). He mar-
ried Julia Perelló in Santiago and died in this city on April 26, 1903
at the age of 33 (L.12 Def., f.16, a.82, Oficialía del Estado Civil de
la Tercera Circunscripción del municipio de Santiago).
161
Barrella and Fersola, shoemakers, are cited as partners in 1908
(AHS, ED, July 16, 1908), but by the end of that same year the
shoe store was spinning under the name Barrella Hermanos
(AHS, ED, 2 December 1908). Miguel Barrella took over the as-
sets and liabilities of the shoe store in 1911 (AHS, ED, January
24, 1911. See also, AHS, ED, May 29, 1911), but in 1916 it was
referred to as owned by Barrella and Fersola (AHS, ED, March
27, 1916), the same as in 1923 (ANFR, PN: IPR, a.n.108, May
19, 1923). Miguel Barrella’s partner was Salvador Fersola (AHS,
ED, October 28, 1915 and January 20, 1916 and ANFR, PN: IPR,
a.n.108, May 19, 1923). His brother was Nicolas Barrella (AHS,
ED, November 30, 1909 and January 2, 1911).
162
The shoe store moved to General Cabrera Street in 1908 (AHS,
ED, December 2, 1908) and was between Mr. Mota’s silverware
store and Campagna Hermanos (AHS, ED, January 2, 1909. See
also, AHS, ED, January 21, 1909 and September 16, 1910).
163
AHS, ED, March 27, 1916.
164
AHS, ED, May 6, 1911. In 1916, La Marchantón was in a high-
rise house owned by the Pascualita Collado estate (AHS, ED,
Sept. 1, 1916).
Between 1913 and 1917, the shoe store is identified as owned
by Pugliese and Giffoni [sic] (AHS, ED, April 26, 1913, LI, No-
vember 17, 1915 and January 2, 1917 and BC, November 18,
1915. See also, ANSR, PN: JD, a.n.219, November 20, 1916. Act
of delivery of goods made by the executor Pbro. José Eugen-
io Collado to the succession of Pascuala Collado. It is worth
remembering that Nicolás Pugliese brought his brother-in-law
Vito Giffone on one of his trips to accompany him in the de-
velopment of his shoe factory. In 1917, Giffone left for Italy to
join his country’s army in connection with the First World War
(AGN, LD, May 26, 1917).
165
Cestero, op. cit., p.122. One of the founders of the Divanna,
Grisolía y Co. in Puerto Plata was Silverio Dipuglia, who died in
Santa Domenica Talao in 1913 (AHS, ED, February 15, 1913).
166
L. 3 Def., f. 22, a.29, Cathedral of Santiago. We assume that
Pedro Russo became its associate, because in 1907, the estab-
lishment known as “Los Russo” was a branch of the Divanna,
Grisolía y Co. (AHS, EP, January 27, 1907).
167
AHS, ED, April 9, 1907. He died as a proxy for the Divanna,
Grisolía y Ca., of Puerto Plata (AHS, ED, July 30, 1909). He ar-
rived in the country in 1899 to work in that house (Casa de Italia,
op. cit.).
In 1918, La Divanna, Grisolía y Ca., of Puerto Plata, established a
sugar mill with 7,500 sugarcane fields in Boca Nueva, 40 minutes