Henry Carter Hull

An Italian Wife is the extraordinary story of Josephine Rimaldi{u2014}her joys, sorrows, and passions, spanning more than seven decades. The novel begins in turn-of-the-century Italy, when fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naive, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina,...

Two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.

Batholomeo di Crespi, a bachelor decorator in the New Jersey town of Our Lady of Fatima, must negotiate a host of eccentric characters and outlandish intrigues from New Jersey to Europe, to accomplish the renovation of the local church.

"A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time as a military internee...

Collected classic writings on, about, and from the formative years of the Italian-American experience, featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature...

Angelo Vestieri runs from his past and his father, and seeks out a second family--a family of criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. His rise from soldier to boss leads him into betrayals, and to an abandoned boy who needs a parent as well as protection.