Courage of Innocence: A Saga of Italian Immigrants in the American Frontier

Courage of Innocence is a non-fictional account of author Ann Federici-Martin’s saga of growing up the daughter of Italian immigrants Narciso Federici and Divina Mazzoni. Her father gathered the strength to leave his family, friends, and impoverished life behind in the hills of northern Italy to follow his dream to L’America where, it was said, “gold grew on trees like apples.” But, to get there, Narciso’s journey first leads him to Egypt where he worked as a stone mason on the first Aswan ...