Joseph Rocchietti

Joseph Rocchietti

Joseph Rocchietti, a native of Casale Monferrato in north-west Italy, emigrated to the United States in 1831. He was active as a writer there during the years 1835–1875 and is best known for "Lorenzo and Oonalaska" (1835), which is the earliest known novel by an Italian-American. The epistolary novel, a love story written in English, is set partly in Europe and partly in Virginia.

He also published a number of long essays including one against the Massachusetts ‘nativist’ movement which was reviewed by Edgar Allan Poe in Poe's "Broadway Journal".

References

*cite web|title=JOSEPH ROCCHIETTI: Earliest Known Italian American Author|url= http://www.palamidessi.us/documents/bookreview_Rocchietti.pdf|author=Christine Palamidessi Moore
*cite web|title=Monferrini in America|url=http://www.monferrini.com/monferrini.html


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