Basilo Catania is an Italian research on Antonio Meucci and hs writte a huge biography ans many articles on Meucci. His website is here: http://www.chezbasilio.org/
Basilio Catania
Via Torino 86
10070 Fiano (TO)
Italy
Tel./Fax/TAM: +39 011 925 4195
Catnia wrote a huge biography of several volumes on |Meucci. This biography was originally published, in Italian, by Seat, then a subsidiary of the STET Group (now Telecom Italia). The original title was “Antonio Meucci—L’inventore e il suo tempo” (“Antonio Meucci—The Inventor and His Times”). It came in two volumes: Vol. 1 subtitled “From Florence to Havana” issued in 1994, and Vol. 2 subtitled “New York 1850-1871,” issued in 1996. After Seat’s reorganization in 1998, the publication of this book, as well as the publication of its English version was canceled and the copyright of the whole was returned to the author, Basilio Catania.
The original plan of the book was as follows:
- Volume 1 (at left in the figure above) dealing with the first 42 years of Meucci's life, that he spent party in Florence (1808-1835) and partly in Havana, Cuba (1835-1850).
- Volume 2 (at right in the figure above) dealing with Meucci's first 21 years in New York (1850-1871), namely from his arrival in New York from Havana (May 1, 1850) up to the disaster of the Westfield ferry in Manhattan (July 30, 1871), where he was severely injured, laying for many months in danger of life.
- Volume 3 (unpublished), subtitled "New York 1871-1889," would cover the rest of his life in New York up to his death (October 18, 1889), with special emphasis on the trials about the invention of the telephone.
- Volume 4 (unpublished), subtitled "Post Mortem" would report on all of the events happened after Meucci's death, including the development and outcome of the US vs. Bell trial, as well as all attempts by Marconi, Moncada, Respighi, Schiavo, Catania and others to vindicate his memory.
- The CD-ROM (unpublished), titled "Documentary Evidence," would be included in the fourth volume and would contain good part of the documents retrieved by the author, especially the relevant records of the Bell vs. Globe trial and those of the US vs. Bell trial.