Here in Cerchio: Letters to an Italian Immigrant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781599540627)

Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Through a fortunate concatenation of events, a collection of letters written by an Italian farmer of the time has recently become available, now archived at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. Between 1910 and 1913 Antonio Vasquenz, a native of the Abruzzo village of Cerchio, wrote about forty letters totaling 25,000 words to his son Angelo, an immigrant working in the coal mines of western Pennsylvania. Unlike many contadini, Antonio was fully literate. He was also a talented writer and intelligent man. Over a four-year period he described in detail, with vivid and sometimes pungent prose, all the events and trials of his life: family illness and death, agricultural conditions, and always, always the financial burdens...--from the Introduction

Author: Constance Sancetta
ISBN-10: 1599540622
ISBN-13: 9781599540627
Publisher: Bordighera Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2014
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d