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Un pezo di pane dale sete cruste (Il pane dalle sette croste) – The seven-crust bread

Date
1881 to 1971
Subject
Category
Author
Gregorio Scaia
Effe e Erre
Publisher
Centro studi judicaria
Keywords
migration memories
work in mines in Western Australia
regional community
dialect and regional Italian
encounter with German and French settlers
description of landscape and Aboriginal people
Creator
Gregorio Scaia
Current holder
Link
Series number
MLMSS 5288 ADD-ON 1938
Access rights
Digitised (see ordered copy )
Country of origin
Language
Period of reference
1881 to 1953
Description from source
Autobiography that covers the long period from the writer’s birth (1881) to the time of writing (1953). The text favors some narrative threads: childhood memories; the account of an early period of emigration to Australia and of the work in the gold and copper mines; the description of a second and definitive emigration to the United States of America (Solvay, East Coast, Seattle); memories of two trips to different American states and a return trip to Price’s country (1937); the biography of other emigrants from the country and the valley met in Australia and America.
Physical format
Diaries
Correspondence
Bibliographic citation
[EndNote/Zotero link]
Date accessed
2022-03-15
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