See full research project with historical photos at FAU's ITAMM (Italian American Memories) portal.

"La Storia Morelli-Milano" is a collection of historic photographs, documents, newspaper articles and more telling a remarkable story of Italian ancestry.  

A research project conducted in association with the Italian Studies graduate program, the genealogical dig unearthed rare finds including an 1885 photograph of the Garibaldi-Meucci cottage (now historic museum) picturing my great-great-grandfather Polifonte Morelli with Antonio Meucci, himself. Further gems include the previously unknown story of Adele Cornalba- the most famous prima ballerina assoluta in the U.S.- married to Polifonte from 1880-1894. Finally, a handwritten note from Giacomo Puccini to Polifonte in 1910 adds a high note to this Morelli-Milano legacy.

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