Ines Cassettari (died 1943) was an Italian emigrant to America whose autobiography became famous.
[1] She was born in 1866 or 1867 in Lombardy, Italy, and abandoned at birth, and lived in an orphanage and then a foster home.
[1] They immigrated to the United States, where she refused to run a brothel for him and eventually left him.
[1] She remarried and worked as a cleaning woman in the Chicago Commons until she died.
[2] "The Life of Rosa Cavalleri: An Application of Abramson's Model of Rootedness/ Rootlessness", by Vaneeta-Marie D' Andrea, is Chapter 10 of The Italian Americans Through the Generations: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Held at St. John's University, New York, October 29–30, 1982, Volume 15, by the American Italian Historical Association, Incorporated, 1986.