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Family Histories

Family Histories
from Gambatesa, Italy:

• Documents for Valente and DiRenzo Family History. All the Valente of Gambatesa in Molise are related, descended from Pasquale Valente (1736-1793).

• Documents for Iacovelli Family History

• Documents for Abiuso Family History

Family History from Sant'Angelo d'Alife, Italy:

• Documents for Angelillo Family History

• The Origins of Sant'Angelo d'Alife

• Giovanni Angelillo, my father's uncle, PVT US Army, who at the age of 25 was killed in action in WW1 and is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France.

Family History from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

• Documents for Schlectweg and Becker Family History

• Gehaus bei Vacha, a village in Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (Thuringia) | The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Philadelphia.

Biography

• The Poet Speaks: Life of Robert Schumann, a narrative biography of the composer (1810-1856), illustrated with line drawings

Historical Memoir:

• Journal of What I Endured During 32 Months of National Service in the Italian Army, 1881-1883 by Michele Fuschino, a stone worker of Vinchiaturo, Molise, Italy, transcribed and translated into English from the dialect.

• Map of the Kingdom of Italy circa 1881

Philosophy

• Wittgenstein's Logic of Language, a synopsis of its elements ("grammar and meaning and nonsense").

• List of all the Philosophy papers on this site, from Socrates (Plato, Xenophon) and the Greek philosophers to M. O'C. Drury and Albert Schweitzer.

• Quotations from Memory, mostly paraphrases of more wise than philosophical sayings of philosophers (and many others), with my overlong comments.

Historical Asides:

• Wittgenstein at Cassino, a translation of selections from Franz Parak's Wittgenstein prigioniero a Cassino. Wittgenstein was held at the prisoner of war camp from November 1918 to August 1919; when he was taken prisoner he had in his knapsack the manuscript of his "Logical-philosophical Treatise".

• Michael Wolff's Cambridge Recollections. Professor Emeritus Michael Wolff studied philosophy as an undergraduate at St. John's College, Cambridge University, England, in 1945-47.

• G.E. Moore's Grave, with a visit to Wittgenstein's grave, in St. Giles Cemetery, Cambridge, as it was in October 1980.

Italian History Background

• History Outline - Italy and America

• Italian History Maps

• Gambatesa - its History and Art, a pamphlet from the village

• Campanili Molisani, from an Italian school textbook of the 1920s (in English and Italian)

• More Village History Background: Gambatesa, Tufara, Roccabascerana

Site Tools

• Italian to English Vocabulary, intended to help with family history documents.

• Site Map: you are here now.

• Site Search.

From Our Correspondent in Geneva (Angelo Abiuso)

• More history of Gambatesa, and Valente family history stories

• Photographs of Gambatesa, 2001-2014

Valente and DiRenzo
Family History

• List of this family's Surnames

• Family Tree Charts

• Italian Civil Register Records

• List of this family's Given Names

• Traveler's Companion for a Map of Central Southern Italy showing the places named in this family's history

• Family Photographs

• Family Documents and Stories

• Short Postscript to this family history

Iacovelli
Family History

• List of this family's Surnames

• Family Tree Charts

• Italian Civil Register Records

• List of this family's Given Names

• Traveler's Companion for a Map of Central Southern Italy showing the places named in this family's history

• Family Photographs and Documents

Abiuso
Family History

• Family Tree Charts

• Italian Civil Register Records

• Traveler's Companion for a Map of Central Southern Italy showing the places named in this family's history

• Deaths at the Masseria Amendola, 30 April 1843