Among all the foreign minorities present in Tunisia in the last two centuries, surely the Italian community was the first and the most important from the numerical point of view. Its economic and social weight became decisive in many areas of the social life of the country, so that the Italian language became the official language in the field of trade and in that of politics and diplomacy. At the turn of the 19th century, the Italian population rises rapidly, this migratory wave is made up of new elements from the social point of view in fact in the second half of the nineteenth century we witnessed the arrival of poor masses mainly from Sicily. In this land and in Italy is intertwined the history of my family, the Santonocito/Bandini, which through a lapse of time of about one hundred years give rise to a novel pressing and compelling on their lives made of love and pain through the various wars.