According to an article in Corriere del Mezzogiorno, there is no doubt: “his ancestors came from the Cilento.”
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Is Taylor Swift Italian? It seems so. The news was reported by Il Correre del Mezzogiorno, according to which the pop star hails from the Cilento. It is from Castelnuovo Cilento, 3000 inhabitants of the province of Salerno. But how did this discovery come about?
“This is where the singer, songwriter and phenomenon seems to have expressed her intention to come after learning that her family’s origins must be in the Cilento. He wrote it in a book Philadelphia king of little Italywhich will be presented at Castelnuovo Cilento Square next Wednesday, August 9 at 8 p.m. by New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Charles Douglas. The author reconstructs the history of his ancestors, using also “on the spot” the collaboration of Giuseppe Galcerano, a lonely and courageous publisher who lives and works in Castelnuovo Cilento,” we read in Corriere del Mezzogiorno.
“I was studying the history of an Italian anarchist killed by the American police, and at some point, consulting some American newspapers, I received news from the 1920s from Castelnuovo Cilento: it was the death of a certain Rosa Baldi, the one whose children were in America . I connected this name with the family grave of a certain Vito Baldi in the cemetery of my village, which always intrigued me, since nothing was known about him, and I decided to investigate further.
“Galzerano looks through other texts, consults the data and reaches the Baldi heirs in the USA, in Philadelphia, who send him a photograph showing Rosa Baldi and Vito Baldi with their son in their arms. Who was this child? The Corriere newspaper continues: “It was Carmine Carlo Antonio Baldi, “who left Castelnuovo Cilento for New York when he was only fourteen years old in 1876. children, including Rose, born in 1920 and married to Lieutenant Colonel Archie Dean Swift. The couple had three children: Archie III, Douglas and Scott, father of Taylor Swift.
A story that seems incredible, but if true, Taylor’s ancestors would be right in the Cilento. That you don’t want to skate after two shows in Milan next year.