Pascal D'Angelo

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Pascal D'Angelo


Born
in Cauze, Introdacqua, Aquila, Italy
January 19, 1894

Died
March 13, 1932

Genre
Memoir, Poetry


Pasquale D’Angelo was born into a peasant family in a hamlet near Introdacqua, a town in the Abruzzi, provincia L’Aquila, in 1894. His family lived in extreme poverty and he went to school intermittently from the age of seven until twelve.

Trying to better the family’s conditions, he and his father sail from Naples—this is the first time Pasquale has seen the sea—and come in through Ellis Island, New York in 1910.

While still confused by the big city he came in touch with other immigrants, suffering racism, and working hard, miserably paid and under dangerous working conditions (he was one of the characters of the shocking first chapter of Pietro Di Donato Christ in Concrete). Disillusioned, his father returned to Italy but Pascal decided to ...more

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Son of Italy (Picas series)
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