Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.

Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.

Siciliani (b. 1879 Ciro, Calabria - d. Roma 1938) was capo (or head) di Stato Maggiore (the general staff) to General Pietro Badoglio at the time of publishing this work about his trip to America.

The work begins with a facsimile of a handwritten letter by Badoglio to Sicliani exhorting him to use his trip to America to explain how glorious Italy's war victories have been. I have not perused Il Progresso or other American Italian newspapers to find out if there are reports of Siciliani's visit. American Italian reactions to the trip would be interesting to know.

Siciliani rose to become a general. He was the deputy governor of Cyrenaica (January 1929-March 1930) in Italian East Africa, representing Badoglio, who had become the governor of Tripolitana and Cyrenaica beginning in January, 1929. Earlier in that decade, he had been military attaché to Brazil and aide-de-camp to the King.

Colonello Domenico Siciliani

Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra

1922

19 x 14cm; 332 p.

Italian