SAN DIEGO LITTLE ITALY ARCHIVE
A place for culture and history
San Diego Little Italy Archive:
What you will find
The materials collected here were collected over a number of years, during the progress and creation of a number of projects. They include photographs made available by Father Grancini, of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, in SD's Little Italy (now deceased), residents of the community, and photographs and testimonies collected directly by me, Pasquale Verdicchio.
A community archive is ...
A community archive is a living thing. It extends in time past and future. It is an ongoing, growing and expanding treasure trove of stories that recount how a community has formed, has grown, has changed over time, and the legacy it leaves for future generations of inhabitants and descendants.
An archive is ... you!
A community archive belongs to everyone. It is meant to outline relationships, networks, and to expand those through dialogue, participation, and sharing.
SAN DIEGO LITTLE ITALY ARCHIVE
Pasquale Verdicchio bio.
Pasquale Verdicchio (Naples, 1954) has published translations of works by Vivian Lamarque, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alda Merini, Antonio Porta, and Cesare Viviani, among others. His most recent critical works are the edited collection Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild (Lexington, 2016) and, with Loredana Di Martino, Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema (Cambridge Scholars, 2017). Verdicchio has taught literature and film at the University of California, San Diego, since 1986.
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