Abruzzo News: 28 June 2000

After a long research Giuseppina la Face Bianconi and Antonio Rossi published this seminal study on Serafino Ciminelli, born in L'Aquila in 1466, deceased in Rome in 1500 in a plague, who was a master of improvisation in court music and to whom hundreds of rhymes in music area ascribed.

: ha quattro nonni, tre bisnonni e una trisavola Michele Di Renzo, born some days ago in Guardiagrele from Raffaella and Emanuele, has four grandparents, three great-grandparents and one g-g-grandmother, Iolanda De Luca, who accepted the g-g-grandson as a present for her 92nd birthday on 15 july, when five generations of the family will gather.

Silvio Ascenzo from San Valentino was assigned a Jack London's book from his teacher. Then he started his Liquid Gas system business in Scafa. years later he rediscovered jack London and felt an ancestral call. Finally, almost 50 years old, he got in contact with Maurizio Belli, who had travelled alone with a sled from Manley Hot Spring to Nome. This 25 May the trip started. Silvio's reportage in the article.

In the latest issue of Italia & Italy, a magazine published by the Istituto italiano di cultura per la Scozia e l'Irlanda del nord (director Dante Marianacci) two articles on Silone («The Silone centenary: Unfinished business», by Cormac O'Cuilleanáin, and «Dimenticato dalla televisione», by Renato Minore), and an essay on John Fante (originary of Torricella Peligna) by Heather Kochevar, from Colorado.