Month: August 2026

The grandson of Calabria’s greatest printing dynasty became the comic voice of Italian America. The documented Italian roots of Eduardo ‘Farfariello’ Migliaccio, from a Naples book-street to a Mulberry Street stage.

A fruit-seller’s son from the Piedmontese hills who became the first piano-accordion star of American vaudeville — the documented Italian roots of Guido Deiro, from Salto Canavese to the New York stage.