WELCOME
to the Digital Archives of the Casa Italia Library
the Florence Roselli Casa Italia Library,
This web page address is http://sites.google.com/chicagoitalianarchives/
or shortcut http://tinyurl.com/casalibrary
For a printable overview of the library, click here for the pdf Library Brochure
To view a complete catalog of our shelf holdings, visit our index-listing Library Catalog at:
For a guide to the archival materials held by the Casa Italia:
For access to all materials and additions since then, please schedule your visit.
Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia Chicago "ticket" and invitation
click, view, print. and schedule your visit
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Topics and Documents
Artists
World War II Honor Roll PDFs originally published by the Italian American Veterans Museum-a tribute to hundreds of Italian Americans who served in world War II.
General
[some items not dated]
Struggling in Chicago - - Italian American labor movement --by Eugene Miller and Gianna Panofsky
Miscellaneous
Unione Siciliana information
photo from the Musical Journey Through Italy
Historian Peter Agostino-CCIH conference-11082013 document (msword)
Obits
University of Chicago webpage
Gazette Chicago webpage
Scala, Florence. (Florence Scala 2007 Aug.): see "People" section below
People
Anna Carlo Blasi ppt
Scala, Florence: video and audio clips
Video obituary as broadcast on TV, available to view at the Casa Library
Audio as broadcast on Radio, available to hear at the Casa Library
Memoirs of Zi Pre'
see also our webpages menu: audio interviews
tribute to Luigi Tonoli, of the Carmen Avenue neighborhood in Chicago.
also available at the
Religion
Center for the Study of Immigration in Rome
Scalabrini Fathers
Ciao South Suburbia
Ciao South Suburbia
Towns / Neighborhoods of Italian Origin
Italians in Chicago Hts --Candeloro
Robert Cross article--Trib. A long, long way from the Mezzogiorno 1977 --feature article on Chicago Italians
The Marchegiani in Chicago Heights 1893-1997 --Candeloro
There was never just ONE Little Italy in Chicago --Candeloro
Text is now freely available digitized at HathiTrust.Org
Little Sicily, St. Philip Benizi Parish, Fr. Luigi Giambastiani;
and the Loyola 2013 Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference
repost from CBS
more places see also our webpages menu: audio interviews
Offsite Links
(Busy Guy) Vince LoCascio does 30 minute video interviews with contemporary Chicago Italians;
Follow these links: Index of Shows Internet video of actual interviews
many and ongoing interviews by Frank Di Piero with contemporary Chicago Italians;
listen regularly; and contact Frank if you have a contact to be interviewed
Casa Library imprint publishing series, available via Amazon books:
Videos
Live and Archived
external link to the history of Sacco and Vanzetti via a dramatic reading performance
as presented at Loyola University -- Italian American Studies Program October 2019
YouTube videos
This video documents the close and enduring connections between the Sicilian village of Altavilla Milicia near Palermo and the city of Chicago. Among other things, it's a story of an ongoing chain migration that began in the late 19th century and continues in the 21st. It also shows how the traditions of the old world can flourish in the new. Among those featured in the video, a compilation of three stories that aired on Chicago's WMAQ-TV in November, 1978, are Joseph Camarda (proprietor of Joseph's Finest Meats (7101 W. Addison) and the late Anthony Scariano, long time Illinois State Representative and Judge of the Illinois Appellate Court. Production credits: George Peebles (camera), Dick Smith (field tape and audio), Deb Segal (video editor). Written and narrated by Rich Samuels.
Nov 18 2011 - Authors' Night - Paul Giaimo "Appreciating Don Delillo" & Frank Cicero "Relative Strangers"
Jul 16 2011 - Children's Summer Camp - Summer camp children sing the Italian National Anthem
Mar 31 2012 - Genealogy Update - Dan Niemiec and Tony Maro
Oct 8 2011 - Reconstructing Italians in Chicago - Presented by Fred Gardaphe'
Mar 23 2012 - Three Paesani Poets Part I Part II - Judith Valente, Albert DeGenova and Donna Pucciani
2009 Art Treasures Video Preview (youtube)
2007 August Florence Scala video clips see "People" section above
Immersion Weekend Casa Italia Immersion Weekend explained by Anna Clara Ionta
Additional Information
More Archival Items In Process see also Menu for this Website and Pages
Audio tour guide
Communes Of Italy is Italian Genealogy, culture and all things Italian. It was published bi-monthly between 1998 and 2010. Each issue includes detailed information about a featured province and once each year an Annual Surname List is included. All 76 issues are available and some may be purchased. A great resource for beginning and advanced genealogists as well as those interested in an in-depth look at a particular province or area.
Fr. Armando Pierini Scripts
Our archives contain seventeen binders of Fr. Armando Pierini's radio broadcasts from 1950s.
Come visit the library or email Dominic Candeloro at dominic.candeloro@gmail.com for more information.
year 2020
Currently, events are virtual online via Zoom Meetings software program application -- using your computer device as a live communication exchange via your videocamera and audiomicrophone portal for multiple persons (being implimented until health concern provisions allow for the reopening of the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia Chicago).
Keep posted here, and on the library facebook page, for online computer events with virtual meeting opportuniies including:
postponed
Dante Studies every Saturday
at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
postponed
Volunteer Opportunities every Wednesday
at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
(for upcoming events look above)
Previous Flyers. Posters, or Archived Information
Recent Previous Events
June 13, 2020
online seminar
10 AM to 2:30 PM
IA LITERATI
online via "Zoom Meetings
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Antonio Fava
at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
Antonio Fava, the great Comedia d'Arte performer will be at the Casa Library Wed Feb 19 at 5pm
We'll have a session in the Florentine Room lasting maybe an hour, then join Frank Di Piero's Cenetta (optional)
There is no charge for the event at Casa Italia. RSVP CasaLibrary@gmail.com The Cenetta is $35 at RoccoVino---contact Frank to RSVP
Antonio Fava is an actor, comedian, author, director, musician, mask maker and Internationally renowned Maestro of Commedia dell'arte who lives in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Born in Scandale, a small village in the province of Crotone, Italy. He moved permanently to Reggio Emilia. Wikipedia and https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/eventdetails/327/308
Recent Previous Events
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Domenica Insieme
at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
Recent Previous Events
Dec 18 the Annual Christmas Gathering and Dolci
at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
Recent Previous Events
Publishing through Casa Italia with no upfront costs
November 23, 2019 at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
"SAVING OUR STORIES"
November 23, 2019 at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
"Saving our Stories"--Publishing YOUR family story.
Learn about the new Casa Italia publishing series and how you too can prepare your manuscript for inclusion toward turning your story into a Printed Book and as a Kindle e-Book.
Learn about the new Casa Italia publishing series and how you too can prepare your manuscript for inclusion toward turning your story into a Printed Book and as a Kindle e-Book.
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Brought to you by the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia Chicago, and IA Literati.
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 10 AM – 1 PM
Casa Italia Library
1621 N 39th Ave,
Stone Park, Illinois 60165
The seminar is free and so are your publishing costs.
(donations always welcome)
free seminar
Italian American studies books
Recent Previous Events
Saints and Animals of Puglia
November 20, 2019 at the CASA ITALIA LIBRARY
We hope this gives you a flavor of the type of cultural opportunities ongoing. Join us at future events.