The Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, Italian Consulate
General Hon. Nicola Faganello and the Italian American Museum of Los
Angeles are holding a reception for Los Angeles’s Little Italy, the
much anticipated new book from Historian Marianna Gatto.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
6:30 PM
Istituto Italiano di Cultur
1023 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024
Gatto, curator of History and Education for a department of the
City of Los Angeles and key proponent of the Italian American Museum of
Los Angeles, will make an interactive presentation followed by a book
signing and reception. There is no cost to attend.
About Los Angeles’s Little Italy: While Los Angeles possesses the
nation’s fifth-largest Italian population today, little is known about
its Italian history, which has been examined by only a handful of
authors over the past 70 years. In Los Angeles’s Little Italy, author
Marianna Gatto chronicles the city’s vibrant Italian enclave during the
100-year period following the arrival of the first Italian pioneer in
1827. The extensively researched text includes dozens of never-before
published photographs and eyewitness testimony of the early Italian
community and its colorful
