Oh Capitano!
Celso Cesare Moreno—Adventurer, Cheater, and Scoundrel on Four Continents
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Whether understood as a fake, a scoundrel, a chameleon, an adventurer, a speculator, a renegade, or simply a nut job (and Moreno was, in his lifetime, slapped with all these labels) or instead accepted as a “dreamer” (Moreno’s preferred description of himself, especially when comparing himself grandiosely to Marco Polo or Christopher Columbus), Moreno the man jumps from the pages of this book. The power of biography to illustrate and to illuminate the past and the individual life in its social context should never be underestimated.---Donna R. Gabaccia, from the introduction
Rudolph J. Vecoli (deceased) was director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
Francesco Durante (Author)
Francesco Durante is a journalist as well as Professor of literature at the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa as part of the Program in Modern Languages and Culture.
Donna R. Gabaccia (Edited By)
Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history at University of Toronto and scholar of international migration, gender and food studies. She has written and edited fifteen books on U.S. immigration, migration in world history, and the history of the worldwide Italian diaspora.
