Paesani - People & Heritage

This section contains links to a series of short article describing people originating from the Cerasuolo and surrounding areas including individuals who are part of my family genealogy and other who are not. It also has a number of articles covering a shared Italian heritage.

Alfredo celebrated his 100th birthday in October 2014. I had the privilege of interviewing him at his home in Cerasuolo in summer 2013.

Alfonzino built his own plane in 2004 from a kit and was still flying well into his 70s — an inspiration to everyone. The plane's call sign: G-FONZ.

In 1996, at the age of 12, Joanna Pacitti was chosen to star in the 20th anniversary revival of the musical Annie.

Antonio was a multi-talented painter, colourist, sculptor, muralist and potter. From Cassino to the Gorbals, his theme was social injustice.

Café Culture is widespread in today’s urban and metropolitan society - Italian immigrants were some of the key instigators with 'Gelato'

Timoteo Pacitti is recorded as the earliest US Pacitti immigrant living within St Joseph’s Monastery at Baltimore County.

The ‘Russian Pacitti’ initially emigrated from Italy to Russia. When the revolution came in 1917, they had to flee and returned briefly to Italy.

Pacitti Company is a UK based ensemble of international theatre group convened in 1990 by Artistic Director Robert Pacitti

Ronaldo was killed during a World War II German air raid at Bankhead School, Glasgow, aged 16 years. He was part of the Auxilary Fire Service.

In 1937, Alfonso Pacitti was awarded ‘La Stella al Merito del Lavoro all Estero’ (Star of Merit for Foreign Work), by King Vittorio Emanuele III.

Alberto Pacitti (my father) was interned during WWII. This is the story of his fifty month incarceration - in his own words.

Lucie Pacitti was a French theatre and film artiste from Paris in the early 1900s. She made regular appearances at the Théâtre du Gymnase

Tercio Pacitti was born in Sao Paolo of Italian parents. He is credited with being the pioneer of Computer Science in Brazil.