# IL GLOBO Italia Joe Feature 8 August 2024

- Link: https://italiajoe.com/il-globo-italia-joe-feature-8-august-2024/
- Published: 2024-08-21T01:14:09+00:00
- Author: Joseph Simonetti

**Written by: Barbara Mancini**

_Translation[[1]](https://italiajoe.com/il-globo-italia-joe-feature-8-august-2024/#_ftn1)
from Original written in Italian _

**Ten years of study and research have served Joseph Simonetti for a story that 
tells the events of the Twentieth Century.**

**Six volumes to not forget the journey of his family**

Melbourne: Giuseppe (Joseph) Simonetti arrived Down Under with his father Michele
in 1956, at eight years of age. For the five years that followed, together with 
his father and his uncle, he moved between the sugar cane crops of North Queensland
and the orchards of the Murray Valley.

Despite starting his studies late, Simonetti has shown a great academic aptitude
not only in high school, graduating in Pharmaceutical Sciences and embarking on 
a career in marketing and sales of highly technological instruments for research
and development in the pharmaceutical and scientific fields, before opening a successful
company in this field.

The passage of time has allowed Simonetti to ask himself questions, to the answer
which he has found refuge in the reading of the classics and the study of Italian
and European history, starting from the Crusades, in 1095. An in-depth study that
he felt necessary, after realising that in Australia he had been exposed only to
the historical events of the country and its intertwining with those of the United
Kingdom. “After reading for 10 years, from 60 to 70, I began to write,” he said.

Simonetti has transformed his personal experience and that of his family into six
volumes that tell of three generations whose events are inevitably intertwined with
the historical and social context in which they have grown up. Through a series 
of research and conversations with his grandmother, in 1988 Simonetti began to collect
material to reconstruct the family tree of his family, while since 2003 he has been
writing down conversations with his father, with the aim of understanding and reporting
the circumstances he experienced during his detention as a prisoner of war.

Continuous research has led Simonetti to complete, over five years, six books that
narrate the succession of the main European historical events, from the rise of 
fascism to the Second World War and the post-war period, a period in which a large
migratory flow from the Old Continent began to Australia, as well as the United 
States.

Even the author’s parents, with the aim of saving enough money to buy more land 
in their town of Francavilla, in Calabria, decide to split up for a few years, and
the father, together with Joseph, embark for Australia.

An enormous work of historical and archival research, study and writing, and therefore
culminated in the six books that Simonetti would now like to publish.

For those interested in learning more, you can visit the website [www.italiajoe.com](http://www.italiajoe.com)

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Original may be found at: [https://ilglobonewspaper.com.au/publications/10/issue/1870/](https://ilglobonewspaper.com.au/publications/10/issue/1870/)

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1957 Michele Simonetti Cavallaro Farm