Luigi Marmorino Collection 1890-1940

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Luigi Marmorino Collection 1890-1940

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Italian singer and comedic actor. Collection primarily relates to his experiences as a young soldier when captured during the Battle of Adua, 1896.

0.5 linear ft.

ita,

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6362187

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Marmorino, Luigi

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Luigi Marmorino (1873-1940) was an Italian singer, comedian and actor. As a young soldier during the Italo-Ethiopan war he was captured at the First Battle of Adua, March 1, 1896, and spent many months as the prisoner first of an Ethiopian chief and later of Emperor Menelik II. He eventually acquired a servant and a wife, and started a small theatre for his fellow prisoners, before being released. Marmorino later published a book on his experiences. He came to the United States in 1...

Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913

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