Primo Luigi Bartolini was born in Fanano, a small village tucked away in the Modenese Appennine, on 10 May 1889.
As far as we know, he spent only a few years of his youth in his hometown. He then moved to Bologna, where he would start a life on the move that saw him eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee.
Located about 50 kilometres southwest of Bologna and 50 kilometres south of Modena, Fanano is also the birthplace of Felice Pedroni (April 16, 1858 – July 22, 1910).
Known best to Americans by his Hispanicized alias Felix Pedro, Pedroni was an Italian immigrant who, discovering gold in Interior Alaska, kick-started the 1902 Fairbanks Gold Rush.
Primo Bartolini's family abode was one of the middle-class houses that typically characterized the architecture of rural Italian villages at the beginning of the twentieth century.
