Joseph Rocchietti
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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.
[edit] References
- Christine Palamidessi Moore. JOSEPH ROCCHIETTI: Earliest Known Italian American Author.
- Monferrini in America.
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