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1945<br />

Le truppe alleate<br />

marciano nel centro<br />

di Genova il 27 aprile,<br />

due giorni dopo che la<br />

città si è liberata da sé<br />

Allied troops march<br />

down the center of<br />

Genoa on April 27,<br />

two days after it<br />

liberated itself<br />

esuli coinvolti in fatti rivoluzionari o di gente<br />

emigrata in giovanissima età; che, partendo perlopiù<br />

da lavori molto umili, innesca percorsi importanti.<br />

Tra i molti esempi si possono ricordare Domenico<br />

Ghirardelli di Rapallo, fondatore della Ghirardelli<br />

Chocolate Company di San Francisco, in cui<br />

entra anche il genovese Angelo Mangini, che prima<br />

fonda il giornale “Cronaca italiana” e poi la<br />

“Voce del popolo”, organo del Partito Nazionale<br />

Italiano (sul quale escono scritti di Mazzini e, a<br />

puntate, le memorie di Garibaldi), diretto dal<br />

conterraneo Carlo Andrea Dondero di Cicagna.<br />

Nel 1862 il Dondero apre a San Francisco la prima<br />

tipografia italiana, dove si stampa il “San<br />

Francisco Chronicle” ed è promotore della prima<br />

Camera di Commercio nata sulla costa del Pacifico.<br />

Attività tessili sviluppa Luigi Trabucco<br />

da San Colombano Certenoli; l’Europa Farina<br />

Mills Macaroni si lega al nome di Agostino<br />

Lagomarsino; Marco Giovanni<br />

Fontana da Cerisola fonda la più<br />

grande organizzazione mondiale di<br />

frutta e verdura in scatola, la Calpac,<br />

cresciuta fino a diventare la<br />

Del Monte. A Waterbury in Connecticut<br />

c’è il Corner dei Baubi.<br />

Giovanni Battista Fugazzi<br />

di Santo Stefano d’Aveto,<br />

che fonda la Columbus Saving<br />

and Loan Society, è<br />

un influente leader politico;<br />

Giuseppe Cuneo di Favale<br />

di Malvaro a 14 anni<br />

lavora nelle miniere prima<br />

di diventare proprietario di<br />

qualcuna di esse. Sua figlia<br />

sposa il famosissimo Amodeo<br />

Peter Giannini, il<br />

grande banchiere che<br />

“Time” ha definito<br />

uno dei “builders and<br />

titans” del XX secolo, a<br />

cui si legano,tra l’altro,<br />

la Banca d’Italia e<br />

d’America e un’intensa<br />

azione nel Piano Marshall;<br />

a lui sono dedicati<br />

una piazza di San Francisco<br />

e, nel 1973, un francobollo.<br />

Paul Rosasco fonda la Rosasco<br />

Brothers pitch pine exporters;<br />

il loanese maestro d’ascia Matteo<br />

Amico e suo fratello si dedi-<br />

Sicilian Navy, constituted on July 5, 1860. In 1862<br />

Garibaldi and emissaries sent by Lincoln begin<br />

intense negotiations to have the Italian lead a<br />

Union Army division, but in the end Garibaldi<br />

refuses, because his heart is in the Italian conflict.<br />

Between 1860 and 1870 circa 12,000 Italians arrive<br />

in the States. Among these are many of Mazzini and<br />

Garibaldi’s supporters. They bring an Italian Legion<br />

to life, along with the Garibaldi Guards, guided by<br />

Alessandro Repetti. At Richmond, Giuseppe Bixio,<br />

brother of the more famous Nino, is present; while<br />

the Confederate Army holds one “Giovan Battista<br />

Garibaldi of Lavagna”. At the Little Big Horn, two<br />

<strong>Liguria</strong>ns - Luigi Agostino Devoto of Borgonovo<br />

Ligure di Mezzanego and Giovanni Martino of<br />

Apricale – numbered among the six Italians. And<br />

during the Gold Rush, business both big and small;<br />

bank, mining and maritime activities; politics and a<br />

strong social initiative embedded among Mutual<br />

Help Societies, formed the basis for many a fortune<br />

grown on the spirit of initiative held by exiles who<br />

had been involved in revolutionary activities or<br />

<strong>Liguria</strong>ns who had emigrated at an early age. They<br />

began from the most humiliating of jobs but ended<br />

taking up positions of much importance.<br />

Among the many examples let us recall Domenico<br />

Ghirardelli of Rapallo, founder of the Ghirardelli<br />

Chocolate Company of San Francisco. Also in that<br />

city, Angelo Mangini of Genoa first founded the<br />

“Cronaca Italiana” newspaper and then went on to<br />

create the “Voce del Popolo” for the Italian National<br />

Party, the Partito Nazionale Italiano (publishing<br />

writings by Mazzini, and Garibaldi’s memories,<br />

published in episodes), with a fellow countryman,<br />

Carlo Andrea Dondero of Cicagna.<br />

In 1862 Dondero opened the first Italian printing<br />

press in San Francisco where he printed “The San<br />

Francisco Chronicle” and promoted the first<br />

Chamber of Commerce on the Pacific Coast. Textiles<br />

were developed by Luigi Trabucco of San<br />

Colombano Certenoli; on the Europa Farina Mills<br />

Macaroni you can read the name of the founder,<br />

Agostino Lagomarsino; Marco Giovanni Fontana of<br />

Cerisola created the world’ biggest organization for<br />

canned fruit and vegetables, CALPAC, which grew<br />

into Del Monte. Giovanni Battista Fugazzi of Santo<br />

Stefano d’Aveto, founded the Columbus Saving and<br />

Loan Society, becoming an important leader in<br />

politics; Giuseppe Cuneo of Favale di Malvaro began<br />

working at age 14 in the mines, before taking them<br />

over, as their owner. His daughter married the<br />

famous Amodeo Peter Giannini, the great banker<br />

who Time Magazine called “one of the builders and<br />

titans of the 20th Century”, founder of Bank of<br />

America and creator of an intense act in the<br />

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