NATICK: Carmine A. Trubiano, age 80, of Natick, died peacefully on July 27, 2016 at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He had recently been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Mr. Trubiano was born in Castiglione a Casauria, a town of 850 inhabitants in the Italian province of Pescara, the eldest child of Ivra (Ranella) and Lucio Trubiano. He attended the Liceo Classico Ovidio in nearby Sulmona, where he studied Latin and Literature, as well as Classical Greek. After further studies in Rome, he lived in France for three years, where he learned both welding and French cuisine. He lived in Holland for seven months before immigrating to the United States in October 1960, and became an American Citizen six years later.
From 1960 to 1963, Mr. Trubiano worked for Westinghouse Electric in Boston, while studying English at Wellesley High Night School. From 1964 to 1973 he co-owned a welding business in Framingham. He earned a B.A. in French and a Master of Education and Italian from Boston University. He completed coursework for a Doctor of Modern Languages at Middlebury College in 1978. After a brief tenure teaching Italian at Watertown High School, he taught Italian Language and Literature at Newton North High School from 1975 to 1981. In Newton and Middlebury he directed several plays, including Pirandello’s “La giara,” Tozzi’s “L’uva,” Fratti’s “Il dentista e la dentista,” Pirandello’s “La favola del figlio cambiato,” and his own “L’apologia di Don Venanzio.”
In the 1980s and ‘90s, Mr. Trubiano was a well known figure in the North End of Boston, where he was the manager for several important restaurants, most notably Ristorante Filippo. He enjoyed memberships with the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, Wellesley’s Italian-American Educational Club, and the Dante Alighieri Society of Cambridge.
Mr. Trubiano was a prolific poet who continued to write poems right up to his death. He published two collections of poetry, “America Amara” and “A Najwa.”
Mr. Trubiano is survived by three sons, Luciano, Enzo, and Mario; and his siblings, Pasquina Gaspari of Italy, Reno Trubiano of Framingham, Mario Trubiano of Rhode Island, Dino Trubiano of Natick, and Fausto Trubiano of Natick.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 10th at 2:00P.M. in the chapel of the John Everett & Sons Funeral Home, 4 Park Street at Natick Common. Friends may visit with the family beginning at 1:00P.M.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Natick Visiting Nurse Association, 209 West Central St., Natick, MA 01760 (www.natickvna.org) or Bay Path Elder Services, 33 Boston Post Rd., Marlborough, MA 01752 (www.baypath.org).