Dear Lodge Sisters & Brothers,

Time is flying by -- much to do and much to look forward to. Our fashion show was a success despite the low attendance, thanks to the generosity of our THANK YOU sponsors and the hard work of our members, MARSHA GREENSPAN, proving that working together is the key. JOHN CALO & Eagerly looking forward to the convention -- JEANNE GARCIA FOR and planning new events. May the month of June be a PREPARING OUR happy time for all of us. REFRESHMENT TABLE

FOR THE Luisa Potenza GENERAL MEETINGS President

GENERAL MEETING JUNE 3rd . GUEST SPEAKER, LODGE BROTHER LOU SABATINI, ITALIAN AMERICANS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY LIZ PRESIDENT LUISA RUNNING THE MEETING GIVING HER REPORT, TELLING US ABOUT EXCITING EVENTS WE CAN ATTEND

THE LODGES STATE DEPUTY, JOANNE SPERA, READING HER REPORT

SPECIAL THANKS TO LODGE AND CONGRATULATING OUR BROTHER JOE ADAMO FOR PRESIDENT LUISA SHARING HIS MEETING ON A JOB WELL DONE. PHOTOS. WITH US.

CULTURE PRESENTATION

ITALIAN FASHION DESIGNERS

VERSACE FENDI ARMANI VALENTINO PRADA OSCAR DE LA RENTA FERRAGOMO GUCCI

Eva Franchi, wife of Sergio Franchi, donated this gown to our Lodge. The Vintage Shop will take it on consignment to sell for us.

Vintage Dress Winner

THANK YOU LODGE BROTHER JOE ADAMO FOR TAKING MANY OF THESE PHOTOS, YOU ARE A HUGE HELP TO ME. EDITOR, ANGELA

AVERE UN BUON COMPLEANNO

 SALVATORE FERRAGAMO Born: Jun 05, 1898 · Bonito, Italy  Died: Aug 07, 1960 · Florence, Italy

Salvatore Ferragamo was an Italian shoe designer and the JOE SANTOS, Lived: Jun 09, 1931 - Mar 18, 2016 (age 84) founder of luxury goods high-end retailer Salvatore Ferragamo Joe Santos was an Italian-American film and television actor, S.p.A.. Ferragamo worked with many Hollywood stars in the best known as Sgt. Dennis Becker, the friend of 's 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company character, on the NBC crime drama, . making bespoke footwear. His scientific and creative approach to Brooklyn-born actor of Italian descent, Joe Santos started out a shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel and football jock at Fordham University and turned semi-pro before cage heel. finding a new avenue in acting.

Lisa del Giocondo (née Gherardini; 15 June 1479 – 15 July 1542 Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1479 Place of Birth: Province of Florence, or ca. 1551), also known as Lisa Gherardini, Lisa di Antonio Tuscany, Italy Maria (or Antonmaria) Gherardini and Mona Lisa, was a member Date of Death: 15-Jul-1542 of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy. Her

name was given to Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance.

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COPIAGUE

Known then as Huntington South, President George Washington visited Copiague in 1790 during his tour of Long Island. In 1906, the Sovereign Realty Co. purchased large tracks of land north of the railroad, which were developed by Giovanni (John) Campagnoli as the Italian-American neighborhood of “Marconiville” – named for wireless communications inventor Guglielmo Marconi.

Several other housing developments arose in the following decades, including Amity Harbor, Deauville Gardens and American Venice. Unique in concept and layout, the American Venice project was designed to emulate the grand City of Canals, Venice, Italy, complete with gondolas and bridges linking the neighborhoods. An ornate gazebo sat on an island in the middle of a laguna at the north end of a canal framed by striped mooring poles and gondolas imported from Italy. From their perch of towering columns, statues of winged lions invited passersby to come closer and explore, to saunter over arched Venetian bridges and past Italian-style villas

MY HOMETOWN

I grew up in this little town, sometimes called a hamlet, Copiague. Lots of Italian Americans lived there along with many Irish families and a sprinkling of other cultures. Many of the streets had Italian Names, Marconi Blvd, Campagnoli Street, Columbo, Corsica, Garibaldi, Leonardo Da Vinci, Meucci Ave., Verazzano, Verdi and Vespucci, and probably a few more. It had a small town feel, and was a very nice place to grow up, of course I didn’t appreciate it then as I do now. ANGELA DONATO ART DECO

ART NOUVEAU was an artistic and architectural movement that blossomed late in the 19th century and (in Italy) lasted into the 1930s. In Italy the movement was called "Liberty" for the firm Liberty and Company in London's Regent Street, which sold this kind of art for several decades. In architecture and painting the Art Nouveau movement took different forms in different countries, so the style varied from London to Paris to New York. Its flowing, flowery forms distinguished Art Nouveau from contemporary architectural styles such as Art Deco. The sculpted leaves (shown here) over the entrance of Villino Ida are a typical motif. With Liberty stained The streets running off it between Politeama glass windows were widely introduced in for and the Giardino Inglese, and Mondello (a the first time. seaside district outside town). Palazzo Dato (at Via XX Settembre 36), designed by Vincenzo Alagna, seems to epitomise the Art Nouveau. Around the corner (at Via XII Gennaio 32), Villa Failla is another fine example of Sicilian Liberty.

Ernesto Basile's own home, Villino Ida (at Via Siracusa 15), completed in 1904, is Art Nouveau with a touch of what looks a little like early, geometric Art Deco. Villino Caruso, designed by Filippo La Porta during the same period, is a fine example of the new movement, inside and out.

Like Art Deco, Art Nouveau was a total style encompassing architecture, interior design, painting, graphics, fashion, furniture design and other areas. Unlike Art Deco, it looked directly to nature for its ** FOLLOW THIS LINK TO LEARN ABOUT inspiration. BASILE In Sicily the greatest center of the Art Nouveau was https://homesthetics.net/100-architects-houses-series-5- , where hundreds of examples can still be ernesto-basile-and-his-villino-basile-in-via-siracusa- seen. So many buildings were constructed in the style palermo/ on a single new street that Via Libertà ("Liberty Street") was named after the movement. VILLINO IDA GIOVANNI BATTISTA BASILE WAS THE FIRST LOCAL ARCHITECT TO EXPERIMENT WITH THE NEW STYLE. VILLINO FAVOLORO (IN PIAZZA VIRGILIO OFF VIA DANTE) WAS BUILT TO HIS DESIGNS IN 1889. CERTAIN ELEMENTS OF VILLA IGIEA AND OTHER STRUCTURES ADHERED TO THE NEW FORMS, AND BEFORE LONG ENTIRE CITY DISTRICTS WERE DESIGNED IN ITALIANATE ART NOUVEAU. ARCHITECT ERNESTO BASILE FOLLOWED IN HIS FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS, TO BE JOINED BY VINCENZO ALAGNA AND OTHERS.

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Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer, his tomb can be visited at the famous Baroque

Cathedral of . The romantic and tragic operatic composer was born in Catania at the end of 1801. Vincenzo Bellini along with highly productive contemporaries Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi, all three were masters of the Italian operatic school of "bel canto." Bellini was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi "praised the broad curves of Bellini's melody: 'there are extremely long melodies as no-one else had ever made before'.

Probably displaying a natural propensity for music at an early age, he was allowed to travel to Naples, then not merely the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies but a bustling, vibrant and colorful center of culture. Bellini studied at the Music Conservatory with some of the greatest contemporary teachers in Europe of this refined art form called "lyric opera," whose showcase was the San Carlo, one of Italy's most important opera houses.

He came to the attention of a well-known impresario, Domenico Barbaja. This Neapolitan artistic entrepreneur introduced the young Bellini to the famous opera house of , La Scala. Thanks to Barbaja, Bellini was commissioned to compose Il Pirata in 1827.

What ensued was a succession of beautiful operas displaying with each passing year a growing sophistication, and for Bellini an artistic liberation from the dominance of that other contemporary giant, Gioacchino Rossini --a friend of Bellini.

Of his ten operas the more memorable are I Capuleti e i Montecchi in 1830, based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, La Sonnambula in 1831, the tragic and ancient story of Norma with the magnificent Signora Pasta singing the title role and, finally in 1835, I Puritani.

After his initial success in Naples, most of the rest of his short life was spent outside of both Sicily and Naples, those years being followed with his living and composing in Milan and Northern Italy, and—after a visit to London—then came his final masterpiece in Paris, I puritani . Only nine months later, Bellini died in Puteaux, France at the age of 33, in 1835, of intestinal disease and a liver ailment.

TRIVIA QUESTIONS

1. THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY WAS BORN IN THIS ITALIAN PROVINCE; IN WHAT YEAR? 2. UP TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THIS LUXURIOUS FABRIC WAS MADE EXCLUSIVELY IN ITALY. 3. WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE THE FIRST TO UTILIZE FANFARE, INCLUDING THE PLAYING OF TRUMPETS & DRUMS TO INTRODUCE AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE? 4. WHICH FAMOUS LEONARDO DIVINCI PAINTING, COMMISIONED ON JUNE 30, 1497, AND TODAY HOUSED IN MILAN, DEPICTS CHRIST WITH HIS DISCIPLES ON PASSOVER BEFORE HIS CRUCIFIXION? 5. THIS THEOLOGIAN IS CREDITED WITH WRITING OVER 50 WORKS THAT LOGICALLY AND OBJECTIVELY DEFENDING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS DOCTRINES. HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK AND MASTERPIECE, SUMMA THEOLOGICA, IS AN EXPOSITION OF THEOLOGY AND A SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY. NAME THIS SAINT.

TRIVIA ANSWERS

1. SICILY IN 1130; DESPITE THE FACT THAT BOLOGNA PRODUCED THE FIRST CREPE TEXTILES AROUND THE YEAR 1000 A.D. Crepe textiles definition: (Textiles) a. a light cotton, silk, or other fabric with a fine ridged or crinkled surface. b. (as modifier): a crepe dress. (Clothing & Fashion) a black armband originally made of this, worn as a sign of mourning.

2. VELVET - a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word velvety means "smooth like velvet." Velvet can be made from either synthetic or natural fibers. 3. The Romans. 4. The Last Supper 5. St. Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274

NATIONAL ADOPT A CAT MONTH Meow! National Adopt a Cat Month in June encourages us to remember our feline friends. When considering a new pet, Adopt a Shelter Cat.

….an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church, He is an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present- day Lazio, Italy. Thomas is distinguished for his Eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church's liturgy. The Catholic Church honors Thomas Aquinas as a Saint and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood.

Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini, June 15, 1479 – July 15, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany. Her name was given to the Mona Lisa, her portrait commissioned by her husband and painted by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Little is known about Lisa's life. Born in Florence and married in her teens to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official, she was a mother to five children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. Lisa outlived her husband, who was considerably her senior. Centuries after Lisa's death, the Mona Lisa became the world's most famous painting and took on a life separate from Lisa, the woman. Speculation by scholars and hobbyists made the work of art a globally recognized icon and an object of commercialization. In 2005, Lisa was definitively identified as the model for the Mona Lisa.

Sadly, one of our members passed away recently. Lorraine Brauneisen,. She and husband Gary, always lent a helping hand at our Lodge yard sales. Lorri donated many To the Brauneisen and Gullo Family beautiful new items to our auctions, and she always purchased Lodge raffle tickets when asked. She was generous, kind, sweet, she will be missed, especially by me. Angela Donato

LAUGHING Is the Best Exercise

ONE OF THE LADIES IN MY CHURCH WAS MAILING A BIBLE TO HER BROTHER IN ITALY. AT THE POST OFFICE COUNTER, THE POSTAL EMPLOYEE ASKED HER THE QUESTION; IS THERE ANYTHING BREAKABLE IN THE PACKAGE? HER QUICK REPLY; ONLY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!

THERE ARE 2 KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: THOSE WHO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND SAY “GOOD MORNING LORD” THEN THERE ARE THOSE WHO WAKE UP AND SAY “GOOD LORD, IT’S MORNING!”

I’m the 2nd person, which one are you? … Angela