The Volturnese Chronicle
The Benedictine Abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno is located on a rocky site about two kilometres from the source of the River Volturno, on the fertile Rocchetta plain. The history of the monastery is recorded in the ‘Chronicon Vulturnense’ (Volturnense Chronicle), an illuminated manuscript written in 1130 by a monk named Giovanni Monaco. Giovanni made use of monastery records dating from the eighth to the eleventh century.
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Pacitti Country
The towns in which the early Pacitti families were born and from which they emigrated are located in the provinces of Molise and Lazio. The Pacitti name has its strongest roots in the locality to the northeast of Cassino. The majority of Pacitti families originated from the towns of Cerasuolo, Filignano, Picinisco and Villa Latina.
My own family come from Cerasuolo and Villa Latina (Agnone Casale).
Arandora Star
A memorial garden dedicated to those Scots-Italians who died was formally opened at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow on 16th May 2011. 94 Scots-Italians were among the 800 victims of the attack. The silver-mirrored central monument, the largest in the world dedicated to the Arandora Star tragedy, stands next to a 200-year-old olive tree which was gifted by the people of Tuscany.
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The Two Kingdoms
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the largest and wealthiest of the Italian states. It was formed in 1816 of a union of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples.
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was annexed by the Kingdom of Sardegna in 1861 and shortly afterwards became part of the Kingdom of Italy after the wars of unification.