Mascagni admitted in his later years that he had always been a rebel. After his escape from Milan he intensified his activity as an orchestra director in the world of opera. He directed some operettas at Genoa’s Politeama in 1885. Luigi Maresca became his manager in 1886 and they together travelled around Italy until landing in Apuglia in Cerignola near Foggia.Mascagni brought his nomadic lifestyle to an end in Cerignola. He wanted more than anything to have a stable job because he was no longer alone. He suddenly found himself with a girl at his side. This girl was originally from Parma and she was one year older than Mascagni. Her name was Argenide Marcellina Carbognani. She was affectionately known to everyone as Lina. .
  Pietro Mascagni met Lina in Parma where he had stopped to direct the operetta Cuore e Mano by Lecoque. The young Lina joined the troupe to follow Mascagni when they were getting ready to leave. They lived together in Cerignola under very tight economic conditions. They got married only after the birth of their first son in 1887. Their son unfortunately died when he was only 4 months old.
Mascagni tells us “we had set up house first, an iron wrought bed and a table. The fact is that the first day Lina and I saw ourselves for the first time sitting at that table which was ours with a lunch prepared by us and eaten by us, we were overcome by a great emotion. Certainly in those times, all the miracles we could muster were necessary. The most scrupulous housekeeping was necessary so that we could simply put a pot on the stove, living from day to day".
DONNA LINA  Lina was a rather reserved, yet volatile and possessive woman. She lived her entire life in her husband’s shadow. She was, however, always ready to fight at Mascagni’s side with all the force and energy she could muster. She had a fighter's temperament. She was the one who ran to the post office to send the music score of the Cavaleria Rusticana in 1989 when Sonzogno was holding his annual music competition. Mascagni was suffering through a period of uncertainty, doubt and uncomfortableness. He did not feel up to participating in Sonzogno’s competition. But it was his wife Lina who, unbeknownst to him, took the musical score and sent it in.
Pietro Mascagni wrote about his wife to a friend – “if I have remained here in Cerignola, I did it for this woman who divides with me her destiny with her hours of boredom, gloom and pain".
Lina did not lose her head when the young couple went from being poor and unknown to being rich and famous in just one evening. Instead she always remained with both feet on the ground. She never changed. She ran the household and took care of the domestic chores, always in a balanced way, as if she were still living in poverty. She was, however, a woman of character. She was very possessive and she would often throw fits of jealously, only to forgive him in the end.
When she discovered that Mascagni had a stable lover, she had to divide Mascagni with this other woman. This did not stop her from attacking verbally and viciously her rival. She had three children with Mascagni and she was a model mother. Mascagni was always affectionate with and grateful to her.
HIS SONS
 Mascagni had a very strong sense of family. He was a very apprehensive husband and a loving father with his three children, Domenico or Mimì, Edoardo or Dino and Emilia or Emy and then, again, with his grandchildren Piermarcello (Bubi), Pietro (Pierino) and Maria Teresa (Mitì). Lina was also very affectionate and attentive to their well-being.
He once confided to a friend “My children and my grandchildren will never have to face difficulties or misery”.
.jpg "EMY_(LA_FIGLIA)") Mascagni had a more open relationship with his daughter Emy. When they were apart he wrote her very often, telling her about everyone and everything. The family questions, friends, work.
The correspondence which began in 1901, goes up to the year of Mascagni’s death in 1943. In these letters we find paternal tenderness for his daughter and the desire Mascagni had to open up to a friend in difficult moments. We can also see the protective attitude of a father when he knows his daughter is suffering. Mascagni ebbe un particolare affetto per il primo nipotino del quale si occupò con tenerezza per tutta la vita..
 Emy diverrà scrittrice. In un suo libro "S'inginocchi la più piccina" racconta l'incontro umano e artistico tra il padre e Gabriele D'Annunzio, al tempo della realizzazione dell'opera Parisina.
Si sposerà con il musicista e direttore d'orchestra Guido Farinelli con cui avrà un figlio Piermarcello (Bubi). Il matrimonio durò solo due anni e Emy crebbe il piccolo inieme ai genitori. Mascagni ebbe un particolare affetto per il primo nipotino del quale si occupò con tenerezza per tutta la vita.
Mascagni con Emy
 Edoardo (Dino) was born in 1891. He got married with Gisella. Whey had once daughter: Lina ( the same name of grandmother). He was very troubled and died early in the 1936.
 Domenico(Mimì) The elder brother, Domenico (Mimì) become a layer. He was a protective consultant of his father. He got married with Gemma and had two child: Pietro (Pierino) and Maria Teresa (Mimì).
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Dino canottiere sui fossi a LIVORNO
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Mascagni e il piccolo Bubi
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A Portrait 
