What Once Was Promised - Hardcoverby Louis Trubiano (Author) He came for a better life, but it didn't turn out to be an easy one. Sixteen year old Domenic Bassini sets out alone for America from his small village in Italy in 1914. He falls in love during a brief onboard affair with the beautiful Francesca, the wife of a man with Sicilian Mafia connections. But he loses her and arrives in Boston instead with an orphan stowaway named Ernesto Lentini in tow. Domenic and Ernesto stay at