Rosmunda [Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1915.
Title
Rosmunda [Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1915.
Description
Rosmunda is the rare example of a screenplay written in the Italian community.
Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1887 - d. New York 1921) was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia from 1888-1891; he later, in 1891, founded a boarding school in Astoria, the Dante Alighieri school, designed to prevent the loss of Italian language and culture among the children of Italian immigrants. As he put it, "compared to Italian parents, the children do not possess anything Italian except their blood and name. All the rest is being lost; by their assimilation into the country of their birth, their Italian language, character, traditions, attachment and customs are being fatally effaced."
A colorful figure in New York’s Italian colony, Cadicamo is depicted by Bernardino Ciambelli in two novels, including La trovatella di Mulberry Street, in the Collection, where he figures as composer of a chorus set to music by countess Gilda Ruta.
Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1887 - d. New York 1921) was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia from 1888-1891; he later, in 1891, founded a boarding school in Astoria, the Dante Alighieri school, designed to prevent the loss of Italian language and culture among the children of Italian immigrants. As he put it, "compared to Italian parents, the children do not possess anything Italian except their blood and name. All the rest is being lost; by their assimilation into the country of their birth, their Italian language, character, traditions, attachment and customs are being fatally effaced."
A colorful figure in New York’s Italian colony, Cadicamo is depicted by Bernardino Ciambelli in two novels, including La trovatella di Mulberry Street, in the Collection, where he figures as composer of a chorus set to music by countess Gilda Ruta.
Creator
Giuseppe Cadicamo
Publisher
Nicoletti Bros
Date
1915
Format
20.5 x 14cm; 92 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Giuseppe Cadicamo, “Rosmunda [Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1915. ,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 27, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/26.
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