Ines Cassettari

Ines Cassettari (died 1943) was an Italian emigrant to America whose autobiography became famous.[1] She was born in 1866 or 1867 in Lombardy, Italy, and abandoned at birth, and lived in an orphanage and then a foster home.[1][2] She was forced to marry an abusive man.[1] They immigrated to the United States, where she refused to run a brothel for him and eventually left him.[1] She remarried and worked as a cleaning woman in the Chicago Commons until she died.[1]

Her name was changed to Rosa Cavalleri in Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant, which was her autobiography as transcribed by Marie Hall Ets; it was published in 1970 and republished in 1999.[1][3][4][5] She had met Ets in the Chicago Commons.[6] Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative by Fred L. Gardaphe calls her book "[o]ne of the strongest Italian American immigrant narratives".[2]

Further reading

"The Life of Rosa Cavalleri: An Application of Abramson's Model of Rootedness/ Rootlessness", by Vaneeta-Marie D' Andrea, is Chapter 10 of The Italian Americans Through the Generations: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Held at St. John's University, New York, October 29–30, 1982, Volume 15, by the American Italian Historical Association, Incorporated, 1986.

References
  1. Ilaria Serra (2007). The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies. Fordham Univ Press. pp. 118–. ISBN 978-0-8232-2678-8.
  2. Fred L. Gardaphe (1996). Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative. Duke University Press. pp. 31–. ISBN 978-0-8223-1739-5.
  3. Caroline Brettell (1 January 2003). Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity. Rowman Altamira. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-0-7591-0320-7.
  4. Marie Hall Ets (1 March 1999). Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-16254-2.
  5. James Ciment; John Radzilowski (17 March 2015). American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change. Routledge. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-1-317-47717-4.
  6. James Robert Payne (1992). Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives. Univ. of Tennessee Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-87049-740-7.
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