Patricia Costa Viglucci, ’57, has completed her 10th published book and second memoir, “Ah, Italy! Running Amok on the Ancestral Trail.”
Forty years after her family’s first visit to Bella, Italia, the author recounts their multiple trips to their ancestral land with wonder, nostalgia and humor.
From Calabria on the Ionian Sea through Naples, Salerno and Rome, to Florence and Venice, up to Switzerland and the Italian and French Rivieras, Viglucci and her husband, Carmen, savored all that Italy had to offer. While delighting in the storied cities, their museums, history and landmarks, nothing was as rewarding as setting foot in the small villages in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Salerno and Catanzaro that Carmen’s father, their various grandparents and Pat’s great-grandparents had relinquished beginning in 1891 for the hope and the dream that was America.
Viglucci also authored three young adult novels, four romantic comedies and a collection of mostly humorous newspaper columns. She received a B.A. in English literature from St. Bonaventure and served as the first woman editor of the Bona Venture, setting her on the path to writing fiction and nonfiction.
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