João José de Andrade Neto
Author and researcher
Great-grandson of Rosa Forner and grandson of Mafalda Miotto Terra. He spent nine years gathering the family’s documents in Brazil and Italy.
Who made this book
Team
A research book is never made alone. These are the people who helped to find, read, translate and tell this story.
AuthorWith his grandmother, Mafalda.
Research
Giorgio Forner
Research in the Veneto
The author’s cousin, in the Veneto.
Patrícia Betti
Memory of the Dei Agnoli family
The author’s cousin, great-granddaughter of Maria Luigia Forner.
Emerson Franco Rocha da Silva
Researcher, collector and naval historian
Santos, Brazil.
Support and outreach
Institutions that have welcomed this work and are taking it to people with the same story in their families.
Red de Museos del Inmigrante Italiano en la República Argentina
The network of Italian immigrant museums in Argentina, where most of the Principessa Mafalda’s third-class passengers were headed, has welcomed this work on its website and is sharing it with the Italian community in the country.
The family
The members of the family who lived through the shipwreck, those who were waiting in Brazil and those who stayed in the Veneto are on The people.