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While boarding, Sickles made the acquaintance of Maria, the same age as he, and their daughter Teresa, who was 3 at the time. Later, as
Sickles rose in prominence, rumours circulated that Sickles had seduced Maria Cooke Bagioli. When Lorenzo the Younger suddenly died about a year later, Sickles left
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Democratic machine). He was thirty-three years old, she was fifteen. Sickles was quite taken with Teresa and soon proposed marriage. The
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159:. It was one of the first opera companies to perform in New York City, and he decided to stay and work there. He married an American woman, Maria Cooke, in New York. He composed numerous works and was highly regarded as a teacher of voice.
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201:, where he studied for several years under Zingarelli. He composed melodramas that represented Cesena (1815), Naples (1824) and Bologna (1826 and others), leading to a certain fame in his native land of Italy.
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