In a joint statement of solidarity welcoming the visit of the President (Governor) of Tuscany, Hon. Eugenio Giani, and an entourage of Regional Council Delegates, Comm. Joseph Sciame, CEO/Chair Emeritus of the Garibaldi Meucci Museum (GMM) and Cav. Joan Marchi Migliori, and Cav. Giuliana Ridolfi Cardillo, two well-known leaders with Tuscan heritage, stated:  “We are delighted to welcome President Giani and his colleagues to the GMM on Saturday, April 22, 2023 to the famed cottage once occupied by Florentine Antonio Meucci and his wife Esterre.  The connection between the GMM on Staten Island and Meucci’s homeland Region of Tuscany are well known and respected by all, both here and in Italy.

Meucci has been recognized in a Congressional Resolution in 2002, proposed by then-congressman Vito Fossella, now the Borough President of Staten Island, as the true inventor of the telephone and therefore considered in many ways as the father of…