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My Ancestors > Italian > Timeline: 1750-1849
- 1800:
No significant Italian population was in Boston before
this date.
- 1801:
Filippo
Traetta, Venetian musician, singer, and composer,
founds the nation's first conservatory of music in
Boston.
- 1825:
Elisa Biscaccianti is born in Boston's North
End. "La Biscaccianti" will become a renowned
coloratura soprano, appearing in the world's major
opera houses. Pietro Bacchi, a Sicilian scholar, is
appointed Professor of Romance Languages at Harvard
College.
- 1827:
Count Lorenzo Papanti establishes Boston's first dancing
studio, a fixture of Boston's social life for the
next three-quarters of a century.
See 1650-1749
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