Please scroll up, buy the book, and learn about your Italian heritage. The book also contains Italian proverbs, offers sage Italian-American advice, and features recipes from Padula and Vico Equense. It explores Italian-American history, values, and culture including traditions, language, folklore, customs, music, food, and humor. Profusely illustrated, with maps and photographs on almost every page, this reader-friendly 434-page book, which was five years in the making, tries to define what it means to be Italian-American. Since the author lived in Italy for almost six years, the book is also in part an Italian travelogue and contains descriptions, pictures, and interesting facts about many Italian cities including Padua, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Capri, Vico Equense, the Amalfi Coast, and Padula. The book also includes the memoirs of the author which describe growing up in College Point, New York in the 40s,50s, and 60s, going to medical school and living in Italy, finding his roots in his ancestral Italian hometowns, and practicing cardiology in New York City. The stories, which were taken from family memoirs and transcripts, are told by those who lived them in their own words and are placed in historical context.

It traces the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the Baratta family from Padula and the Visco family from Vico Equense, both of whom settled in Manhattan and subsequently moved to Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. It represents over one hundred and fifty years of family history.

Description of the First Edition: This book contains the stories of three generations of Italian-Americans. It is my hope that the new additions will make the book a better resource for those who wish to learn about their Italian heritage. In this, the 'Heritage Edition,' I have added new photos and new stories taken from my parents' memoirs, and further explored Italian-American history, values, traditions, folklore, and culture. Heritage Edition - September 2018 - Preface to the Heritage Edition: Since its original publication, I have been extremely gratified by the positive reception the book has received not only from the Italian-American Community but also from the general public.

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