List of Immigrants from Lombardy to Brazil

List of Immigrants from Lombardy to Brazil

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Rosario Ship List Of Italian Immigrant Passengers and their destinations (Letters A B C)

ROSARIO SHIP

LIST OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANT PASSENGERS

GENOA, JANUARY 12, 1895

ARRIVAL IN BRAZIL ON FEBRUARY 6, 1895

 

A

SOBRENOME	NOME	PARENTESCO	IDADE	ORIGEM: CIDADE  PROVÍNCIA - REGIÃO	PROFISSÃO
-	GIUSEPPA	ESPOSA	19 ANOS	SICILIANA AGRIENTO - SICILIA	-
-	ASSUNTA	CUNHADA	11 ANOS	SICILIANA AGRIENTO - SICILIA	-
ACHILLI	ANNA	ESPOSA	26 ANOS	IMOLA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
ADAGLIO	ELEONORA	ESPOSA	35 ANOS	SANT'ANTONIO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
ALBANELLI	BARBARA	ESPOSA	32 ANOS	SPOLETO PERUGIA - UMBRIA
ALBERINI	ANGELA	ESPOSA	48 ANOS	COLORNO PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
ALBERTINAZZI	ROCCO	CHEFE	47 ANOS	FONTANETTO D'AGOGNA NOVARA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
ALBERTINI	GIUDITTA	ESPOSA	35 ANOS	CALDIERO VERONA - VENETO	-
ANDREOLA	ROSA	ESPOSA	41 ANOS	FOLLINA TREVISO - VENETO	-
ANSELMI	TERESA	ESPOSA	28 ANOS	QUARGNENTO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
ARALDI	LUCIA	ESPOSA	32 ANOS	CANNETO SULL'OGLIO MANTOVA - LOMBARDIA	-
AROLDI	LUIGI	CHEFE	36 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	CONTADINO
AROLDI	ALFREDO	FILHO	13 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
AROLDI	CLEMENTINA	FILHA	7 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
AROLDI	LEONILDA	FILHA	5 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
AROLDI	AMILCARE	FILHO	0 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-

B

SOBRENOME	NOME	PARENTESCO	IDADE	ORIGEM: CIDADE PROVÍNCIA - REGIÃO	PROFISSÃO
BACCHI	TOMMASO	CHEFE	32 ANOS	RECANATI MACERATA - MARCHE	CONTADINO
BACCHI	ARNALDO	FILHO	2 ANOS	RECANATI MACERATA - MARCHE	-
BACCINI	FILOMENA	ESPOSA	27 ANOS	BORGO SAN DONNINO PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BAGATELLA	GAETANO	CHEFE	40 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BAGATELLA	VIRGINIA	FILHA	8 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BAGATELLA	ANTONIO	FILHO	2 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BAGATELLA	ROSALIA	FILHA	0 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BALBI	MARIA	ENTEADA	16 ANOS	SCRIVIA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BALLUGANO	ANTONIO	CHEFE	42 ANOS	GUAZZORA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
BALLUGANO	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	16 ANOS	GUAZZORA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BALLUGANO	CRISTINA	FILHA	5 ANOS	GUAZZORA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BANZATO	GIO BATTA	CHEFE	30 ANOS	CONSELICE RAVENNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	CONTADINO
BANZATO	MARCO	PAI	70 ANOS	CONSELICE RAVENNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BARALDO	BORTOLO	CHEFE	58 ANOS	ALBAREDO D'ADIGE VERONA - VENETO	- CONTADINO
BARALDO	GIOVANNI	FILHO	11 ANOS	ALBAREDO D'ADIGE VERONA - VENETO	-
BARALDO	GENOVEFFA	FILHA	5 ANOS	ALBAREDO D'ADIGE VERONA - VENETO	-
BARALDO	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	2 ANOS	ALBAREDO D'ADIGE VERONA - VENETO	-
BARBIERI	ALFONSINA	ESPOSA	28 ANOS	BOLOGNA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BASSOLI	ANGELA ROSA	ESPOSA	21 ANOS	CASTELBERFORTE MANTOVA - LOMBARDIA	-
BAZZANI	FRANCESCO	CHEFE	44 ANOS	VALLE LOMELLINA PAVIA - LOMBARDIA	CONTADINO
BAZZANI	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	10 ANOS	VALLE LOMELLINA PAVIA - LOMBARDIA	-
BAZZANI	GIOVANNI	FILHO	7 ANOS	VALLE LOMELLINA PAVIA - LOMBARDIA	-
BELLONI	GIUSEPPINA	ESPOSA	25 ANOS	COSTIGLIOLE D'ASTI ASTI - PIEMONTE	-
BENEDETTI	FRANCESCO	CHEFE	35 ANOS	CHIRIGNAGO VENEZIA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BENEDETTI	ERMINIA	FILHA	12 ANOS	CHIRIGNAGO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BENEDETTI	MARCO	FILHO	4 ANOS	CHIRIGNAGO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BENETELLA	CLEMENTINA	ESPOSA	36 ANOS	CARRARA SAN GIORGIO PADOVA - VENETO	-
BERNINI	MODESTA	CHEFE	48 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	CONTADINO
BERRO	PAOLO	CHEFE	50 ANOS	TREBASELEGHE PADOVA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BERRO	PASQUALE	FILHO	20 ANOS	TREBASELEGHE PADOVA - VENETO	-
BERTO	SANTE	CHEFE	36 ANOS	PADOVA PADOVA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BERTO	GIO BATTA	FILHO	8 ANOS	PADOVA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BERTO	FERRUCCIO	FILHO	3 ANOS	PADOVA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BERTO	LUCIA	ESPOSA	35 ANOS	MACERATA MACERATA - MARCHE	-
BERTOLDI	MARIANNA	ESPOSA	50 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOLDI	REGINA	ESPOSA	41 ANOS	SOPRAZOCCO BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
BERTOLINI	VINCENZO	CHEFE	32 ANOS	CASTEL GUELFO DI BOLOGNA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	CONTADINO
BERTOLINI	SANTE	FILHO	6 ANOS	CASTEL GUELFO DI BOLOGNA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BERTOLINI	ASSUNTA	FILHA	2 ANOS	CASTEL GUELFO DI BOLOGNA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BERTOLINI	IDA	FILHA	0 ANOS	CASTEL GUELFO DI BOLOGNA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BERTOLINI	GIOVANNA	MÃE	66 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
BERTON	TERESA	MÃE	50 ANOS	CHIRIGNAGO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BERTORA	GIUSEPPINA	ESPOSA	24 ANOS	SALE  ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BERTOSSI	GIACOMO	CHEFE	49 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	CONTADINO
BERTOSSI	ERMENEGILDO	FILHO	17 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	LUIGIA	FILHA	15 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	ATTILIO	FILHO	14 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	BENIAMINO	FILHO	12 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	MARIA	FILHA	9 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	MATILDE	FILHA	8 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BERTOSSI	TERESA	FILHA	7 ANOS	PAVIA DI UDINE UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
BETTI	MATILDE	ESPOSA	34 ANOS	PIANORO BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BETTOCCHI	CARLO	CHEFE	32 ANOS	FIRENZE FIRENZE - TOSCANA	CONTADINO
BETTOCCHI	MARIO	FILHO	0 ANOS	FIRENZE FIRENZE - TOSCANA	-
BIAGIONI	UMILIANA	ESPOSA	26 ANOS	SAN ROMANO IN GARFAGNANA LUCCA - TOSCANA	-
BIANCHI	GIUSEPPE	CHEFE	42 ANOS	GRECO MILANESE MILANO - LOMBARDIA	CONTADINO
BIANCHI	ANGELICA	FILHA	7 ANOS	GRECO MILANESE MILANO - LOMBARDIA	-
BIANCHI	VINCENZO	FILHO	5 ANOS	GRECO MILANESE MILANO - LOMBARDIA	-
BIANCHI	GIUSEPPINA	FILHA	0 ANOS	GRECO MILANESE MILANO - LOMBARDIA	-
BIGHETTI	GIUSEPPE PIETRO	CHEFE	22 ANOS	ZEVIO VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BILZI	GIOVANNI	FILHO	23 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BILZI	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	22 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BILZI	ANNUNZIATA	FILHA	18 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BILZI	LORENZO	FILHO	15 ANOS	MEZZANI PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
BIONDI	ERCOLE	CHEFE	26 ANOS	SPOLETO PERUGIA - UMBRIA	CONTADINO
BISIO	FRANCESCO	CHEFE	36 ANOS	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
BISIO	GIOVANNA MARIA	FILHA	11 ANOS	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BISIO	CATERINA	FILHA	9 ANOS	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BISIO	MARIA	FILHA	5 ANOS	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BISIO	GIO BATTA	FILHO	3 ANOS	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BISIO	TERESA	FILHA	1 ANO	CARPENETO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BOCCHI	ILDEGONDA	ESPOSA	22 ANOS	CARBONARA DI PO MANTOVA - LOMBARDIA	-
BOCCHINO	CLARA	ESPOSA	30 ANOS	INCISA BELBO ASTI - PIEMONTE	-
BOGGIONE	CELESTINO	CHEFE	36 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
BOGGIONE	MARIA	FILHA	10 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BOGGIONE	TERESA	FILHA	8 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BOGGIONE	LUIGI	FILHO	5 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BOGGIONE	EUGENIA	FILHA	3 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BOGGIONE	AMERICO	FILHO	2 ANOS	BALZOLA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
BONINSEGNA	PAOLO	CHEFE	28 ANOS	VILLANUOVA SUL CLISI BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	CONTADINO
BONINSEGNA	MATTIA	FILHO	1 ANO	VILLANUOVA SUL CLISI BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
BORIO	GIOVANNI	CHEFE	29 ANOS	CASTIGLIOLE D'ASTI ASTI - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
BORTOLATTO	MARIA	ESPOSA	27 ANOS	CHIRIGNAGO VENEZIA - VENETO
BOZZATO	ANGELO	CHEFE	42 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BOZZATO	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	17 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BOZZATO	LUIGIA	FILHA	15 NOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BOZZATO	GIACOMO	FILHO	13 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BOZZATO	ANTONIA	FILHA	11 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BOZZATO	LUIGI	FILHO	9 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BOZZATO	LINO	FILHO	7 ANOS	FOSSALTA DI PORTOGRUARO VENEZIA - VENETO	-
BREDA	MARIA	ESPOSA	27 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
BRESCIANI	ROSA	ESPOSA	25 ANOS	GAVARDO  BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
BRIGATO	DOMENICO	CHEFE	36 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	CONTADINO
BRIGATO	GIOVANNI	FILHO	10 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BRIGATO	EMILIA	FILHA	6 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
BRILLANTI	FILOMENA	ESPOSA	32 ANOS	PIANORO BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-

 

C

SOBRENOME	NOME	PARENTESCO	IDADE	ORIGEM: CIDADE PROVÍNCIA - REGIÃO	PROFISSÃO
CALLEGHER	MARIA	ESPOSA	29 ANOS	ZEVIO VERONA - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	GARBEL LUIGI	CHEFE	59 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	CONTADINO
CAMATTA	GIUSEPPE	FILHO	27 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	DOMENICO	FILHO	25 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	ANTONIO	FILHO	20 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	TEODORO	FILHO	17 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	CAROLINA	FILHA	12 ANOS	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMATTA	LUIGI	NETO	1 ANO	MARENO DI PIAVE TREVISO - VENETO	-
CAMPANINI	GIOVANI	CHEFE	71 ANOS	COLORNO PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	CONTADINO
CAMPANINI	LUIGI	FILHO	25 ANOS	COLORNO PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
CAMPANINI	SILVANO	FILHO	22 ANOS	COLORNO PARMA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
CANOVA	MARIA CATERINA	ESPOSA	29 ANOS	TAGLIOLO MONFERRATO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CARLONE	MICHELE	CHEFE	37 ANOS	MINERVINO MURGE BARI - PUGLIA	CONTADINO
CARLONE	RAFFAELLA	FILHA	8 ANOS	MINERVINO MURGE BARI - PUGLIA	-
CARLONE	MARIA DOMENICA	FILHA	6 ANOS	MINERVINO MURGE BARI - PUGLIA	-
CASELLI	FRANCESCO	CHEFE	32 ANOS	ISOLA SANT'ANTONIO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
CASELLI	CARLO	FILHO	2 ANOS	ISOLA SANT'ANTONIO ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CASOTTO	ENRICO	CHEFE	44 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	CONTADINO
CASOTTO	PIETRO	FILHO	16 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	COLOMBA	FILHA	14 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	GIUDITTA	FILHA	11 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	EMILIO	FILHO	9 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	SANTA	FILHA	7 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	PASQUALE	FILHO	5 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	ITALIA	FILHA	4 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASOTTO	ANTONIO	FILHO	2 ANOS	CERVARESE SANTA CROCE PADOVA - VENETO	-
CASSANI	DOMENICA ROSA	ESPOSA	30 ANOS	IMOLA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
CASTAGNA	MATTEO	CHEFE	58 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
CASTAGNA	GIULIO	FILHO	16 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CASTAGNA	ALBINA	FILHA	13 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CASTAGNA	ADELE	FILHA	9 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CASTAGNA	FRANCESCO	FILHO	4 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CASTAGNA	GIACOMO	CHEFE	40 ANOS	VENEZIA VENEZIA - VENETO	CONTADINO
CASTELLI	CRISTINA	ESPOSA	25 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CATTELANI	ANNA	ESPOSA	47 ANOS	CAMISANO CREMONA - LOMBARDIA	-
CAVENAGHI	ROSA	ESPOSA	30 ANOS	BUSSERO MILANO - LOMBARDIA	-
CELANO	FRANCESCA	ESPOSA	34 ANOS	MINERVINO MURGE BARI - PUGLIA	-
CEOLIN	GIUSEPPE	CHEFE	35 ANOS	PASIANO PORDENONE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	CONTADINO
CEOLIN	FERRUCIO	FILHO	5 ANOS	PASIANO PORDENONE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
CEOLIN	UMBERTO	FILHO	0 ANOS	PASIANO PORDENONE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
CERRONE	MARIA FILOMENA	ESPOSA	39 ANOS	SCURCOLA MARSICANA L'AQUILA - ABRUZZI	-
CERVARI	GIACOMO	CHEFE	35 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	CONTADINO
CERVARI	ADELE	FILHA	12 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CERVARI	ROSA	FILHA	8 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CERVARI	MARIA	FILHA	5 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CERVARI	ERCOLINA	FILHA	4 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CERVARI	CARLO	FILHO	0 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CHISIGLIERI	GIUSEPPA	ESPOSA	38 ANOS	GUAZZORA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
CIGOLA	ANNA	ESPOSA	32 ANOS	TERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
CIPELLI	VIRGINIA	ESPOSA	26 ANOS	ERRASSA PADOVANA PADOVA - VENETO	-
CISAMOLO	ANGELO	CHEFE	36 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	COMTADINO
CISAMOLO	LUIGI	FILHO	10 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CISAMOLO	ALBINO	FILHO	7 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CISAMOLO	LUIGIA	ESPOSA	30 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CISARO	GIUSEPPE	GENRO	26 ANOS	CANDIA LOMELLINA PAVIA - LOMBARDIA	-
CISARO	ROSA	NETA	0 ANOS	CANDIA LOMELLINA PAVIA - LOMBARDIA	-
COCCA	LUIGIA	ESPOSA	20 ANOS	MUSCOLINE BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
COLOMBO	VIRGINIA	ESPOSA	28 ANOS	TORTONA ALESSANDRIA - PIEMONTE	-
COMISSO	GIUSEPPE	CHEFE	51 ANOS	TEOR UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	CONTADINO
COMISSO	CATERINA	FILHA	13 ANOS	TEOR UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
COMISSO	TRANQUILLA	FILHA	11 ANOS	TEOR UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
COMISSO	PAOLA	FILHA	6 ANOS	TEOR UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
COMISSO	PERINA	FILHA	0 ANOS	TEOR UDINE - FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA	-
CONFENTE	RACHELE	ESPOSA	21 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CONTOLI	LUIGIA	ESPOSA	40 ANOS	IMOLA BOLOGNA - EMILIA ROMAGNA	-
CORBELLARI	SPERANDIO	CHEFE	47 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
CORBELLARI	LUIGI	FILHO	13 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CORBELLARI	ANGELA	FILHA	3 ANOS	SOAVE VERONA - VENETO	-
CORRADI	ROSA	ESPOSA	31 ANOS	CARBONARA DI PO MANTOVA - LOMBARDIA	-
CORTESE	BORTOLO	CHEFE	25 ANOS	ZEVIO VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
COSSALTER	CELESTE	CHEFE	44 ANOS	SAN BONIFACIO VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
COSTERMAN	ANGELO	CHEFE	26 ANOS	VILLAFRANCA DI VERONA VERONA - VENETO	CONTADINO
CRESCINI	FRANCESCO	CHEFE	44 ANOS	GAVARDO BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	CONTADINO
CRESCINI	MARIA	FILHA	13 ANOS	GAVARDO BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
CRESCINI	ANGELA	FILHA	1 ANO	GAVARDO BRESCIA - LOMBARDIA	-
CRUCIANELLI	MARIA	ESPOSA	28 ANOS	POLLENZA MACERATA - MARCHE

The Italian-Brazilian Language Born from Immigration

 

The Italian-Brazilian Language Born from Immigration

“Talian was not born from the lack of a language. It was born from the need to belong.”

When Italian immigrants began arriving in southern Brazil in large numbers during the late nineteenth century, they did not arrive speaking one single language.
Italy had been unified, but the language of everyday life had not suddenly become uniform. A family from the Veneto spoke differently from one from Lombardy, Friuli, Piedmont, or another part of the peninsula. For immigrants who had grown up in villages where local speech carried the warmth of home, those differences did not disappear simply because they had crossed an ocean.
They arrived in Brazil carrying their own words.
Then they found themselves living beside people whose words were not always the same.
In the immigrant colonies of southern Brazil, this was more than a linguistic curiosity. It was a practical problem. Families needed to work together. Neighbors needed to trade, borrow tools, exchange news, help one another during illness, build houses, clear land, attend Mass, raise children, and survive in a country whose language was Portuguese.
They had to understand one another.
And so something remarkable began to happen.
Words from different Italian regional varieties came into contact. Expressions were adopted, modified, shortened, or given new meanings. Venetian speech became particularly influential in several immigrant communities, especially because of the large number of immigrants from the Veneto. But it did not remain exactly as it had been spoken in the old villages of Italy.
It changed.
Portuguese entered the conversation as well. Brazilian places, plants, foods, objects, institutions, and everyday realities often had no familiar word in the immigrants' old vocabulary. New words were needed. Others were adapted. Some Italian expressions acquired a Brazilian rhythm.
Children grew up hearing this language at home.
They heard it around the kitchen table, in the fields, at the mill, in the churchyard, at the market, and during gatherings with neighbors. They heard grandparents and parents speaking in a way that was neither simply the language of the old country nor simply Portuguese.
It was becoming something of its own.
That language came to be known as Talian.
For many Italian descendants in Brazil, Talian was never a language learned from a textbook. It was the language of family life. It was what a grandmother used when calling the children inside. It was what neighbors spoke when they met along a country road. It was the language of work, jokes, prayers, arguments, affection, recipes, stories, and memories.
For the immigrants themselves, there was no grand plan to create a new language.
They were simply trying to live.
That is perhaps the most important part of its story.
Talian emerged from necessity. People who had arrived from different parts of Italy needed a way to communicate with one another, while also adapting to the Portuguese-speaking world around them. Over time, the speech of the immigrant communities became recognizable, carrying traces of the Veneto and other Italian varieties while incorporating elements of Brazilian Portuguese.
It became a language of belonging.
And belonging was something the immigrants needed deeply.
They had left behind villages, relatives, familiar landscapes, parish bells, cemeteries, and the graves of ancestors. Brazil offered the possibility of a new life, but that new life could also make a person feel far from everything he or she had known.
Language became one of the places where home survived.
A word could carry a landscape.
An expression could preserve the voice of a grandmother.
A pronunciation could reveal where someone's family had come from.
A sentence spoken around a kitchen table could connect a child in Brazil to a village in the Veneto that the child had never seen.
This is why Talian matters to the descendants of Italian immigrants.
It is not merely an old way of speaking.
It is evidence of what happened when immigrants from different parts of Italy met one another, adapted to Brazil, and created communities together.
For an Italian-American descendant, there may be a familiar parallel.
Many families in the United States also inherited words, accents, recipes, gestures, and expressions that changed after their ancestors crossed the Atlantic. Italian-American speech developed in different circumstances and in different places, often influenced by English and by the particular Italian regions from which families came.
The details are different, but the human experience is familiar.
Immigrants do not simply carry a language to another country.
They carry it into a new life.
And a language carried into a new life inevitably changes.
Talian is one of the clearest examples of this process among Italian immigrant communities in Brazil. It preserves the memory of Veneto and other Italian origins, but it also records the experience of becoming Brazilian.
That is why it should not be understood simply as a damaged version of Italian or as a failed attempt to preserve an old dialect.
It is something else.
It is a cultural creation born from contact, necessity, adaptation, and belonging.
For decades, Talian lived primarily in families and communities. It passed from one generation to another through speech rather than formal instruction. In many homes, children learned it simply because that was what their elders spoke.
But languages can become fragile when younger generations move to cities, attend schools where another language dominates, marry outside the community, or gradually lose contact with older relatives.
Words that once seemed permanent can disappear surprisingly quickly.
That is why the preservation of Talian is also a form of preserving family history.
When an old word disappears, something more than vocabulary may disappear with it. A way of seeing the world can vanish. A memory of a place can become harder to express. A connection with grandparents can grow quieter.
Yet Talian has survived.
Its recognition as Brazilian cultural heritage reflects the historical importance of the communities that created and preserved it.
But its deepest preservation still happens in places where people speak it, remember it, teach it to children, write it down, record it, and refuse to let the old words become silent.
For descendants of Italian immigrants, this matters even when they no longer speak the language themselves.
Perhaps you know only a handful of words.
Perhaps your grandmother used an expression that nobody else in your family could explain.
Perhaps your grandfather spoke differently when he became emotional, telling a story about the old country.
Perhaps there is a word in your family's vocabulary that survived three or four generations without anyone remembering exactly where it came from.
That word may be carrying more history than you realize.
The story of Talian reminds us that immigration does not erase identity in a single generation.
Identity changes gradually. It adapts. It absorbs the new country while holding on to pieces of the old one.
The immigrants who helped shape Talian were not linguists trying to preserve a cultural artifact.
They were farmers, laborers, craftsmen, women raising children, priests, shopkeepers, neighbors, and families trying to build a future.
They spoke because they needed to speak.
They understood one another because they needed one another.
And from that ordinary necessity came something extraordinary.
A language survived.
A memory survived.
A connection to Italy survived.
And in the sound of Talian, two worlds learned to live together.
Talian was not born from the lack of a language.
It was born from the need to belong.

Author's Note

Over more than three decades of contact with Italian-descendant communities, I have heard countless words and expressions that survived long after the first immigrants crossed the Atlantic. Some were remembered by entire communities; others survived in only one family, passed from grandparents to grandchildren almost without anyone noticing their value. Talian belongs to this living history. It was shaped by immigrants who came from different parts of Italy, especially the Veneto, and who had to make themselves understood while building a new life in Brazil. They did not set out to create a language. They simply spoke, worked, raised their children, and helped one another. In doing so, they left behind a linguistic heritage that tells us not only where many of their ancestors came from, but also what happened to them after they arrived. For descendants of Italian immigrants, including those in North America, this is an important reminder: sometimes the strongest traces of an immigrant family's past are not found in official documents, but in the words that survived at the kitchen table.

Dr. Luiz Carlos B. Piazzetta
Author and researcher of Italian immigration and family history