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Italian Families: The Velente Family (1936)
Figure 1.--Here we see the family of Maria Velente in 1936. She was a popular Italian circus performer who also appeared in films. She was born in Rome. We are not sure just when she was born, but would guess some time in the 1890s. She was Italian, but as she traveled all over Europe as part of traveling circuses has a pan-European experience. Here we see Maria with her four children in 1936. They look ton beabout 5-13 years old. The girls both wear white dresses with different cuts. The boys wear matching ties, shirts, short pants, knee socks, and shoes.
Here we see the family of Maria Velente in 1936. She was a popular Italian circus performer who also appeared in films. She was born in Rome. We are not sure just when she was born, but would guess some time in the 1890s. She was Italian, but as she traveled all over Europe as part of traveling circuses has a pan-European experience. Her father was the master and stage director of Fregoli the famous Italian ventriloquist and transformist. Maria began performing when she was only 3 years old in of all places Kiev, Russia. She performed in many ways, as a horse-back rider, a tightrope walker, and a juggler. This was the normal apprenticeship at the time for a circus kid. She became a talented musician. She played among other instruments the xylophone and various unconventional instruments invented by her creative instruments. She was performing circuses and music halls by the age of 16 years. As she got older she transitioned more to music galls than circus performances. She was a well known performer in many European countries (such as Belgium, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and other countries by the age of 20 years). Maria married Guiseppe, an Italian accordionist. They had four children, two boys and two girls. They performed as a family with eccentric music -- "Maria Valente et Cie" troupe "Maria Volonte and her children".
