by Catherine Accardi
Part I of my Conversations with Lawrence Ferlinghetti appeared in the last, June 25th, 2015, issue of L'Italo Americano. Below we continue with the man and his lasting legacy. Mr. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, N.Y. in 1919, son of Carlo Ferlinghetti, from the province of Brescia, and Clemence Albertine Mendes-Monsanto.
After the passing of his father and his mother's illness, he was raised in France by his French aunt, speaking French as his first language. It was on a trip to the U.S. that his father changed their last name to "Ferlin"and Lawrence believed his last name to be such until he was 23.
Fonte: L'italo-Americano
