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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 | See 1850-1949
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