Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
Im looking to find anything I can on my grandfather Francessco Guiseppi Bellani (not sure if thats correct spelling)
He came by ship to England around 1904 I think he travelled with extended family (name:Guiseppi Palosi or Pelosi)
I think they came from Lucca or in and around the Tusscany area
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...
