Wandering Minstrel: Wandering Minstrel and Reports of other “Rondini” - Softcover

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"The enthralling life odyssey of Eugenio D'Agostino is recounted in this extraordinary memoir. It is an astonishing. long-lost narrative that allows us to recapture the fading memory of the early years of Italian immigration to the United Kingdom. D'Agostino's chronicle is possibly the only such surviving personal account of a boyhood and youth spent travelling the highways and byways of northern England and rural Wales as an itinerant street musician in the 1890s. From this precarious and challenging livelihood, progression in manhood to vending the more lucrative delicacy of ice cream, typified the Italian highway. By following in Eugenio's footsteps. we learn so much about the path of so many. From the poverty of mountainous hamlets in the south of Italy. through the immeasurable cruelty of his padrone or boss, to independence and final security and success in Edinburgh as a businessman, we relive the remarkable journey. Eugenio D'Agostino's vivid descriptions give rare insight as adventure and misadventure combine, creating a life narrative that surprises, even shocks, but one which ultimately gives a tasting sense of courage, resilience and achievement. This book will be of interest to people of Italian origin, students and enthusiasts of British social history as well as all those curious to explore some little known episodes and attitudes of a century or so ago" Dr. Cav Terrri Colpi. Honorary Research Fellow. University of St. Andrews It is vivid, simple, and strangely exciting. (First Edition 1938, Oxford University Press)

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