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Mario E. Cosenza was an educator and scholar of the Italian Humanists. He was the first principal of Townsend Harris Hall High School and Dean of Faculty at Brooklyn College.

Early Life
Mario Emilio Benvenuto Angelo Cosenza was born in Naples, Italy on November 21, 1880 to Giuseppe Francesco Cosenza, a painter, and Emilia Cosenza, an opera singer. He and his three siblings emigrated to the United States in 1896, joining his parents, who had come to the United States four years earlier to make a new life for themselves.