The Nuptial Cloths
Gramma Stella was 14½ when her mother told her that Giuseppe Monardo had asked for her.…
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Adrift
On the 10th of June, 1940, the same day Italy entered the war and invaded southern…
Toronto: A Fifty-Year Love Affair in Photographs
I have had an almost lifelong love affair with Toronto. I first fell in love with the…
Orphans
Excerpt from Cold City, a graphic novel inspired by a true, unsolved crime in Toronto of…
An Italian-Style Field Trip
After our hilarious Sunday service, we arrived home just as the phone rang. It was Mom…
Queen City
The 1960s continued to see increasing numbers of Italians immigrating to Canada.…
Francesca’s First Confession
Francesca’s first confession, after years of abstinence from the Catholic Church, had…
Mother of Sorrows
In his memoir, Mea Culpa: A Plea of Innocence, Bruno Cocorocchio embarks on an…
The Chairman, the Princess and the King
Our distinguished guests will be with us overnight. Today is to be given over to…
The Artist and the Assassin
The year is 1596. The young Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio has recently come to Rome…