A Scent of Jasmine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798614896638)

Among all the foreign minorities present in Tunisia in the last two centuries, surely the Italian community was the first and the most important from the numerical point of view. Its economic and social weight became decisive in many areas of the social life of the country, so that the Italian language became the official language in the field of trade and in that of politics and diplomacy. The first Italians to arrive in Tunisia were mainly traders and professionals looking for new opportunities, usually coming from Liguria and other regions of northern Italy.At the turn of the 19th century, the Italian population rises rapidly, this migratory wave is made up of new elements from the social point of view in fact in the second half of the nineteenth century we witnessed the arrival of poor masses mainly from Sicily. This new migratory flow is largely determined at the beginning by the great works that France initiates in its protectorate, like the construction of the port of Tunis, at the end of which many emigrants decide not to return to Italy.Arrived in Tunis, many are established in the area of the port, giving rise to the neighborhood that later will be called "Little Sicily" (La Goulette). Settled in the city are mainly masons, blacksmiths, carpenters, general workers hired in the various fields.In this land and in Italy is intertwined the history of my family, the Santonocito/Bandini, which through a lapse of time of about one hundred years give rise to a novel pressing and compelling on their lives made of love and pain through the various wars (I and II and the battle of El Alamein). A detailed account in the various stages of their lives from birth to adulthood where everyone will have its own story, leaving behind only the tormenting memory for those who are no longer here.

Author: Mary Laura Santonocito
ISBN-13: 9798614896638
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2020
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.27d