Bruno Luigi D'Ambrosio

Bruno Luigi d'Ambrosio Merighi (born in Salerno on September 9, 1948) is an Italian writer and businessman. He has published in Italian, Spanish, and English.

Biography

His father was Pompeo D'Ambrosio, who took him to Caracas (Venezuela) at the age of 5, giving him dual Italian and Venezuelan citizenship until he was 21. Since then, he has lived in the USA, as an officially registered Italian citizen.

Bruno grew up studying between Caracas and Modena (an Italian city where he completed his scientific high school education), subsequently graduating from the University of Genoa "summa cum laude" in "Economic Geography".

At the age of 22, he was in charge—at the behest of his father and his uncle Mino—of the youth section of the fan club of the Venezuelan football team Deportivo Italia, attending and supporting the team in almost all of its matches during that period (such as the Little Maracanazo of 1971). In 2001, the "International Federation of Football History & Statistics of FIFA" judged Deportivo Italia as the best Venezuelan football team of the 20th century.

After graduating, he began writing while serving as deputy director of the magazine “Incontri”, a publication belonging to the Scalabrinian Fathers of the Catholic Church in Venezuela and written in Italian for the Italian-Venezuelan community. Bruno D'Ambrosio was the contracts director at the "Saprolate-Tranarg" company in Caracas, which in 1975 planned the aerial photographic survey of the first "Venezuelan Railway System" for the IFE. He was one of those responsible who fought (even against his own boss, engineer Gianpiero Argento) to prevent an "exaggerated" railway plan with too many routes from being implemented (which later proved impossible to carry out, as happened with the new railway plan created by President Chávez in 2006):

Bruno promoted – along with several other managers – a single route between Maracaibo and Ciudad Bolívar with an initial "Caracas-Cua" section to be started promptly (followed by the Cua-Maracay section that would have connected the capital with Venezuela's fourth largest city, but which never progressed beyond the project stage). The company "Saprolate-Tranarg" carried out all the aerial surveys, and subsequently the Plan was approved by then-President Luis Herrera Campins, but in the 1980s the IFE Plan was blocked for economic reasons after the devaluation of the Bolívar in 1983 and was then definitively canceled with the Caracazo of 1989. Only the Caracas-Cua section (ardently promoted by Bruno, along with some other officials) was maintained and completed.

That plan was initiated by President Luis Herrera Campins, and even now the Caracas-Cua section is the only one that has been completed (and without the waste of money that subsequently occurred with the railway plans conceived—but not completed—during the mandates of Presidents Chávez and Maduro).

After obtaining his MBA, Bruno Luigi D'Ambrosio founded his own company (called "Financiaria D'Ambrosio" or "Findam") in Caracas, specializing in financial consulting for investing capital in various nations around the world.

In 1992 he married Maria Rubino (a foreign language graduated professor of Florida) and the next year he had his son, Bruno junior.

Currently (2026) he lives in retirement in Boca Raton (Florida), where he continues to write and publish. He is also a promoter of the local Italian community, receiving the title of "Knight of Columbus".

Publications

In 1980 he published for the University of Genoa the "Italian Emigration to Venezuela," his first research paper (in Italian and Spanish)

In the following years he wrote:

• "The Influence of the Spanish Language on American English" (in Spanish, Italian, and English)
• "The Neo-Latin Genius of Nikola Tesla" (in English)
• "Roman Client State in Denmark" (in English)
• "Romans in Azania/Raphta (present-day Tanzania)" (in English)
• "Italian Schools in Asmara" (in English)
• "The Truth About the 1933 UFO in Italy" (in Italian, Spanish, and English)
• "The 1943 Biscari Massacre" (in Italian and English)
• "Lissa: The Perfect Ethnic Cleansing of the Indigenous Italian Community" (in Italian, Spanish, and English)
• "Genoese Colonies in Medieval Romania" (in Italian)
• "Planned Italian Attacks on New York in 1943" (in English)
• "Vlachs in Venetian Dalmatia" (in Italian and English)
• "Roman Trade with Ceylon and Beyond" (in English)
• "Italian Military Tradition" (in Italian and English)
• "Genetic History of the Italian Ethnicity" (in Italian, Spanish, and English)
• "Italian Concessions in China" (in English and Spanish)
• "The "Romance language" bridge between Italy and Romania (in English)

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