Vite Italiane

Today in Italy it’s bank holiday. We are celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Italy Unification. Living in Australia it seems that people here are more busy with St.Patrick’s day but I know it’s not true. Italian is the second spoken language in Australia so at least 354000  people are celebrating at home.

Few weeks ago I went to the Public Library in Perth and there was a very interesting exhibition on Italian immigrants to Western Australia. It was based on “Vite Italiane” a book written by Susanna Iuliano and I want to put the words on the back cover here to remind who Italians are and how proud we must be.

Western Australia’s cultural, political, economic and social character owes a huge debt to its Italian migrants. Since the 1880s, Italians have enriched the state with their hard work, traditions and culture.