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Vol. 22, No. 3 I www.niaf.org Features Events Celebrating Italy’s 150th Anniversary On March 17, 1861, Italy became one nation after almost a half century of struggle called il Risorgimento. Italy@150 celebrates Italy’s 150th anniversary through- out the United States with events that are turning 2011 into an “Italian year.” Foreword by Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, Ambassador of Italy to the United States C O N T E N T S La Dolce DC From Pond Scum to Power Crop 17 The Nation’s Capital is brush- 37 That light-green algae may ing up on its Italian this spring look like pond scum to you, O F and summer with a citywide but to California entrepreneur festival of exhibitions, theater Guido Radaelli, it's a wonder productions and activities that crop that has the potential to are just the ticket for observing power our future and feed the Italy’s 150th anniversary. world's growing population.

By Don Oldenburg By Patricia L. Beemer TABLE

History of Italian Unity Made Easier Coin of the Realm 21 Italian unification is celebrated 43 As Italy celebrates its 150th every March 17, the day in anniversary, it is fitting to 1861 when Victor Emmanuel II reflect upon the symbiotic link was proclaimed the first King between the history of the of Italy. But as simple as that nation and its first currency— crowning moment may sound, the lira. not much leading up to the By Joseph Luzzi historic day that would shape the modern nation of Italy Appreciation: Joseph R. Cerrell proves to be semplice. 47 When Joe Cerrell died in early By Roberto Severino December, the world lost more Sections than a legendary public affairs Lettere ...... 4 On Becoming Italian consultant. Joe was a powerbro- Grants ...... 10 32 An itinerant Italian American ker whose list of close friends reporter chronicles his passion- and clients read like a Who’s Ciao Italia ...... 13 ate pursuit of his Italian Who. He was also a media NIAF News ...... center heritage and dual citizenship. guru, professor, mentor, busi- On Film ...... 51 By Marco R. della Cava nessman, proud Italian Ameri- can, devoted family man, and On Sports ...... 53 so much more. Crossword ...... 55 By Don Oldenburg

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nother bone-chilling winter for many of us is year. If your appetite is calling for homemade tradi- over, and once again hope springs eternal tional Italian cuisine, try the recipes Ciao Italia Awith the return of balmy weather, blossoms columnist Mary Ann Esposito has cooked up in this and baseball. Springtime also marks the return of issue for the Feast of St. Joseph. And, we welcome NIAF’s West Coast Gala on May 19 in sunny Santa the first appearance in our pages of veteran USA Monica, Calif., an annual event of fine dining, good Today writer Marco della Cava who writes of his friends, and our shared Italian American heritage nearly lifelong and passionate pursuit of his Italian that you won’t want to miss. heritage and, in recent years, dual citizenship.

This issue of Ambassador previews the spring Looking back at 2010, NIAF is proud of its many Gala’s exciting, celebrity-filled program and its accomplishments, including taking the nationwide remarkable honorees in the NIAF News section, leading role in saving the Advance Placement Ital- along with coverage of recent NIAF events from ian Language test by issuing a $500,000 challenge Capitol Hill to Chicago and elsewhere. grant that was followed by a $250,000 gift from former member of Congress and NIAF Chairman The theme of this issue, however, is of historic Emeritus Frank J. Guarini. NIAF also fulfilled its proportions: This is the 150th Anniversary of Italy. Abruzzo Earthquake Relief initiative. We Ironically, in the same year 150 years ago when contributed to scholarships for more than 200 the United States was struggling through civil war students and provided grants to 31 deserving Ital- to remain united, Italy was struggling to become ian American cultural and academic projects. And, united. Both succeeded, attesting again to the we brought 34 students on the Ambassador Peter F. long and enduring bond between these two Secchia Voyage of Discovery Program, and spon- FROM THE NIAF CHAIRMANnations and their people. sored 52 Italian students through the NIAF Adopt- A-Student Abruzzo program. Observing Italy’s important anniversary, NIAF and the Italian American Congressional Delegation will For more than 35 years, NIAF has distinguished host a congressional reception on Capitol Hill on itself as a heritage-based organization as well as a March 17. And we’re proud to include a calendar networking resource for Italian American of all walks of “Italy@150” events, exhibitions and activities of life. No matter your field, NIAF welcomes you to throughout the United States in 2011, with a fore- join us at our wide variety of events, programs and word by Italy’s Ambassador to the United States opportunities and help support our mission of Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata. In addition, there’s an promoting Italian American heritage and culture article that makes the complicated history, person- and keeping it alive for the next generation. alities and intrigue of the Risorgimento and Italy’s unification a little easier to understand. On behalf of NIAF, I thank you for your support of our organization in 2010. Also in this issue is a gratifying story of how NIAF cultural grants helped the Italian Film Festival USA to expand from its modest beginning, from show- ing three Italian movies in St. Louis in 2005 to bringing a half dozen films to 10 U.S. cities this Jerry Colangelo, NIAF Chairman

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Detroit October 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute The Italian Genius and the American Industrial Development— January 13 – May 20, 2011 | Western Reserve University 150 years of the Italian Unity, international conference Americhe—Photographic exhibit by Francesco Nonino

Philadelphia Houston March 16 – June 5, 2011 | Philadelphia Museum of Art January 27 – March 30, 2011 | Texas A&M University Film Inauguration of the Exhibition--“Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion” Festival about The Risorgimento March 18 – 19, 2011 | Philadelphia Italian Consulate March, 2011 | Houston High Schools General, Oak Room Film—Un Percorso tra i Siti Italiani Patrimonio Mondiale dell'Unesco Presentation of Italian films and documentaries on the history March – April, 2011 | Italian Communities Cultural Center of Italian fashion from 1860 until the present day Cinema—“Il Gattopardo” by Luchino Visconti, with March 25, 2011 | Philosophical Society of Philadelphia introduction by Houston University Prof. A. Carrera “Unity of Italy and America: A 150-Year Bridge”— a seminar of political, historical and philosophical studies April 2, 2011 | Dallas Opera Rigoletto By Giuseppe Verdi March 27 – June, 2011 | Philadelphia Museum of Art Presentation of a series of Italian films in connection with the Los Angeles exhibition: “Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion” January 20 – March 19, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute April 1, 2011 | Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Hall in Westwood Fashion show by students of fashion schools and universities Exhibition of a charcoal sketch of Palazzo dei Congressi in Venice, —models inspired by Italian designer Capucci Travel Sketches of Italy by renowned architect Louis I. Kahn. April 5 – 7, 2011 | Philadelphia Italian Consulate General, March 7 – May 2, 2011 | IIC, Chapman University and Oak Room University Of Oklahoma “Italy’s Unity Seen by Cinema”—a presentation on Italian films Contemporary Literature with Dacia Maraini, Erri De Luca, on “Risorgimento,” in conjunction with the America-Italy Society Giuseppe Conte, Paolo Giordano E Giorgio Pressburger April 15 – 16 2011 | University Of Pennsylvania March 17, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute From The Unification of Italy to The Unity of the “Italici”— Languages of “Italicita” in the world, international conference Theatre Production about the History and Traditions of Italy organized by Fabio Finotti, director, Center for Italian Studies April 12, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute Photography – Historical Photos of Rome in 1849, by Stefano Lecchi from the Getty Research Institute San Francisco April 28 – 30, 2011 | UCLA and Italian Cultural Institute March 2 – May 29, 2011 | Cantor Museum at Symposium on Francesco De Sanctis and unified Italy Stanford University Exhibit of Tiepolo's drawings June 4, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute Art, Photography, Design – Biennial of Venice: the Italian Pavilion March 20, 2011 | Italian American Museum

in the World Presentation of Local Italian Artists Italia Unita Da Concetto A Realtà—Conference presented by

Mario Purpura (UC Berkeley), Steven Botterrill (UC Berkeley), June 15 – 30, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute Giancarlo Aquilanti (Stanford) and Massimo Mazzotti ((UC Berkeley) Literature—Itinerant reading of “I Promessi Sposi” March 23, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute 150 Years Of Italy Through Documents And Memorabilia— New Jersey From the Italian public libraries of Rome and Naples March 17, 2011 | Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ March 23 – April 14, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute “La Breccia Di Porta Pia” by Edmondo de Amicis— Portrait of a Nation—L’Italia del Risorgimento, Documentation Book presentation and celebration of Italy's unification from the California Historical Society and the Baccari Archives

June 4, 2011 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ March 29, April 5, 12 and 19, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute

“Concerto Per La Repubblica”—Verdi's repertory in Festival of Risorgimento Themed Movies celebration of the 150 years of the Italian Republic March 31, 2011 | Italian Cultural Institute The Music Of Risorgimento—Lecture and concert New York

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63522_Text_NIAF Amb17.4c3/9/1110:50AMPage17 LaDolce DC tions, theater performances and activities observing the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. From March 1 through May 30, Washington, D.C., will be celebrating its Italian connection for two full months, promoting all things Italianesque, from arts and architecture to culture and cuisine. The Nation’s Capital is brushing up on its Italian this spring with a citywide festival of exhibi- So pack your English-to-Italian dictionary (if you need it), head to D.C., and get ready to shout, “Bravissimo!” Though, try to keep it down in the museums, 150 T IS A IHAN WITH HE C LL TH ELEBRATING N By Don Oldenburg Don By T ATION HINGS A NNIVERSARY A CN ON CCENT ’ S I C TALIAN I APITOL TALY ’ S per favore ! Ambassador 17 WWW.NIAF.ORG 63522_TextX_NIAF Amb17.4c3/11/1110:22AMPage18 18 WWW.NIAF.ORG Ambassador BernardoBellotto’s paintedabout1745 havebeen in the works for years,” exhibitionsand performances val?“Some of the cornerstone art ianexhibitions or the Italian festi- beforeyou’re out of the Gallery. bookingyour Venice flights ing.It’s right there! You’ll be 1890trip to Venice. Not apaint- hisLong Island home from an ThomasMoran brought back to gondolathat American artist can’tmiss the rare 19th-century urbanenvironment. And you Venice.There's afive-part lecture lookat the tourist passion for thedocumentary film that takes a Mostafternoons, you can catch tionsof Vivaldi to gallery talks. concertsfeaturing the composi- ofrelated activities, ranging from Galleryoffers atempting menu Bellottoand Francesco Guardi. MicheleMarieschi, Bernardo Vanvitelli,Luca Carlevarijs, knownartists such as Gaspar paintingsby talented but lesser- canals,piazzas and streets are 33 anddetailed scenes of Venetian time.Alongside Canaletto’s grand withother “view painters” of the exhibitionfocuses on his rivalries finest18th-century cityscapes, the throughMay 30. Canalettoand His Rivals," open Americanshowing of "Venice: Galleryof Art’s exclusive North DC’sfestivities is the National GiovanniPaolo,”e “TheCampoSanti Butwhich came first, the Ital- seriesexploring Venice’s Asaside dish, the National Featuring21 of Canaletto's Thecenterpiece of La Dolce Photo by Rob Shelley,RobPhotoby Copyright National GalleryArt,Washingtonof ingsfrom the late Renaissance to 27.It will feature 65 master draw- 1525–1835,”May 15 through Nov. WolfgangRatjen Collection: ianMaster Drawings from the Italian-inspiredexhibition is “Ital- encesof Italy,” adds Isley. passionateart and design influ- nation’scapital, specifically the andcultural connections in the showoff the international arts WesternHemisphere. ofLeonardo’s on view in the circa1474-1478—the only work painting“Ginevra de' Benci,” Leonardoda Vinci’s magnificent withone of its greatest prizes, Gallery,make sure to spend time festival. Embassyof Italy in presenting the AmericanFoundation and the ingwith the National Italian tion.DC Destination is partner- conventionand tourism destina- Washington,D.C., as apremier leadorganization marketing Presidentof Destination DC, the saysVictoria Isley, Senior Vice “PhilipGuston, Roma” features Collectionthrough May 15. Italiais on display at The Phillips differentlight on the essence of exhibitionthat casts an entirely GiovanniBattista Piranesi. toDomenico Tintoretto and andGiovanni Domenico Tiepolo suchartists as Giulio Romano theneoclassical movement, from TheNational Gallery’s other Whileyou’re at the National Meanwhile,aground-breaking “LaDolce DC was created to CanalettoRivals”Hisand exhibition“Venice: entrancetheatthe to “TheBacinoMarco,”Sandi detailMicheleofMarieschi's photomuralafront ofin MoranThegondolaview on

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection Design,Art, and Culture.” inWashington D.C.: Architecture, inthe book, “The Italian Legacy sorof architecture Luca Molinari ernsociety,” wrote Italian profes- thatlaid the foundations of West- withthe influences of aculture ianartisans in 1951. andsurfaced in pure gold by Ital- equestrianstatues cast in bronze Bridgewhere you’ll see four bold intraffic, like crossing Memorial con”).Even where you get stuck DolceVita,” not so much “Satyri- everywhereyou look (think “La isthat there are Italian influences thatFellini would’ve appreciated tothe films of Federico Fellini.” monumentsand formal gardens aspectsof Italy, from its antique “Hewas fascinated with many neverbefore displayed together. exclusiveexhibition of paintings theRome-based curator of the culture,”says Peter Benson Miller, Italianart, landscape and lifelonginterest in and respect for inItaly . . . testifies to the artist's duringhis third and final sojourn isCanaletto. ciallyif your artistic comfort zone modernnarrative painting—espe- Guston’sinnovative style of Expectto be challenged by inRome in the early 1970s. denceat the American Academy Italy-lover’stenure as artist-in-resi- ofPhilip Guston, works from this 39abstract expressionist paintings Art,Washington, AilsaMellon Bruce Fund panel,1478,c.1474onoilNational/ Gallery of LeonardoVinci,daGinevra de’Benci (detail), “America’scapital is infused Onething about Washington “Guston'sRoma series, painted 63522_Text_NIAF Amb17.4c3/9/1110:50AMPage19 © Estate of Philip Guston; image courtesy McKee Gallery, New York, NY there’s also the Holy Rosary sculpting. For a spiritual pause, created much of the exterior Italian-American stone carvers Cathedral where first-generation Wisconsin Avenue to the National of Dumbarton Oaks or head up the Italian-inspired terrace gardens cismof the Jefferson Memorial. brothers,and the Roman classi- bythe Tuscany-born Piccirilli inthe Lincoln Memorial carved Moretti,the iconic Lincoln statue Rome-basedarchitect Luigi Watergatecomplex, designed by workof Italian craftsmen at the thenorth wing of the Capitol. OldSupreme Court chamber in tion,near the entryway to the Garibaldi,hero of Italian unifica- abust of Italian patriot Giuseppe tectAndrea Palladio. ideasof Italian Renaissance archi- translatedto America through the thePantheon of ancient Rome, columnsinspired by buildings like its19th century neoclassical furtherspeaks to the influence in Brumidi.The Capitol’s exterior Italianmaster Constantino osisof George Washington” by ingthe grandeur of “The Apothe- ofthe Capitol’s rotunda display- you’llsee is the incredible dome novel”The Lost Symbol.” What you’rein the plot of Dan Brown’s forinstance, just look up, as if thetour inside the U.S. Capitol, In Georgetown, stroll through There’smore: Check out the Bythe way, you can even find Ifyou’re standing in line for ScottSuchmanWNOfor Trabocchireturns to Washington, saysIsley. “Noted chef Fabio spring”in time for La Dolce DC, is“getting Italian inspiration this iscuisine. DC’s restaurant scene cultureand the Nation’s Capital andInternational Trade Center. 4,at the Ronald Reagan Building ion,trade and design show, April ofItaly will host an Italian fash- Italian rary culture, the Embassy throughSept. 25. For contempo- RomanRepublic, June 10 centuriesbefore the rise of the cultureof the Italian peninsula Revealed,”which looks at the Etruscans:An Ancient Culture GeographicMuseum’s “The Domingo takes to the podium. with English subtitles, as Plácido opera "Don Pasquale," in Italian present Gaetano Donizetti’s comic Washington National Opera will House. Opera Center Kennedy the at 19 March through plays and sub-titles English with Italian in performed is piece master- tragic Puccini‘s Giacomo Auguin, Philippe Director Music and Domingo Plácido Director General legendary WNO’s by Butterfly.”Presented “Madama performance Opera’s WashingtonNational the miss to Youwant won’t“benvenuti.” says DC Dolce La cappuccino, Italian, 10:30 a.m., Sundays. Church, which celebrates Mass in Woodstock,NY. PrivateCollection, mountedpanel.on paper1971.onOil RomeGarden, PhilipGuston. Anotherintersection of Italian Checkout The National From May 13 to May 27, the of cup your is theater If FondamentaNuove,” paintedabout1722 Muranofromthe San MicheleSanand “SanCristoforo, Canaletto’s Italyright here in D.C.,” says Isley. aroundthe world to celebrate torsfrom around the country and visitladolcedc.org. “We invite visi- DolceDC activities and events, GregoryPeck. ringAudrey Hepburn and thefilm “Roman Holiday” star- PhillipsCollection, and aDVD of Juniper,two tickets to The dinnerfor two in its restaurant, stayfor two, athree-course Italian HolidayPackage—an overnight ingthe festival with its Roman D.C.Hotel, in West End, is salut- AndThe Fairmont Washington DolceVita Prix Fixed Menu.” that’sPaolo’s Ristorante’s $42 “La lacquered cherry duck breast, spicedporcini crusted bisteca or Avenueand smell the aroma of instance,you’re on Wisconsin Ifin the first week of May, for areserving La Dolce DC specials. inabundance, some restaurants LaDolce DC,” adds Isley. Centerdowntown in concert with Graffiatoacross from the Verizon starMike Isabella “is set to open House.And, TV’s ‘Top Chef’ all- openGalileo II near the White cameback to D.C. just last year to Celebritychef Roberto Donna servingsignature Italian dishes. Gallery’stwo Italian exhibitions, Italia”in honor of the National NationalGallery’s Garden Café alsobe chef in residence at the Fiola,in Penn Quarter. He will D.C.,to open his own restaurant, NationalOpera Washingtonthe performedby “MadamaButterfly,” Puccini’s Fora complete listing of La WhileItalian culinary arts are Ambassador

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of 63522_Text_NIAF Amb17.4c3/9/1110:54AMPage23 England, the two superpowers of the time, to time, the of superpowers two the England, against France play skillfully to him enabling Question,” “Italian the as known be to come had what table that on putting of opportunity the him gave This table. victors’ the at place a himself ensure would Empire—he Ottoman the in influence over Russia against Nassau of Duchy the and Piedmont-Sardinia France, Britain, Great of coalition a by 1856)—fought War(1853- Crimean the to contingent montese Venetoand of the Papal States. passmost of present-day Italy, with the exception of Italy,the former Kingdom of Sardinia would encom- VictorEmmanuel II was proclaimed first king of yearin which Cavour died just three months after topromote its territorial expansion. By 1861, the throughalliances and short wars of independence, hisskills to first consolidate that state and then, firstminister of the Kingdom of Sardinia, he used consummatemasters of diplomacy. When appointed politicalrealist and one of the 19th century’s most conquestof Rome. politicalprisoners, for the celebration of the 1870would Mazzini so benefit, along with other excludedhim from ageneral amnesty. Not until ofthe Two Sicilies, the Kingdom of Sardinia wassuccessfully campaigning against the Kingdom justas Mazzini was planning to join Garibaldi, who briefly led as a member of the triumvirate. lithographpublished 1861in ProclamationRomantheRepublic,of 1849, Cavour understood that by contributing a Pied- a contributing by that understood Cavour CamilloBenso, Count of Cavour, was amoderate ButPiedmontese’s enmity was enduring. In 1860, entityhad been the result of an expansionistic skepticsto surmise that the new unified geopolitical onkeeping the “II” after his name. That led many constitutional,parliamentary government, insisted newand more important political entity runby a VictorEmmanuel, despite being the sovereign of a EmmanuelII at its helm, had become areality. much“enlarged” Kingdom of Sardinia, with Victor Marcheand Umbria, and of the Two Sicilies. forPiedmont’s annexation of the Papal regions of cededSardinia and Liguria to France in exchange hadnot honored a secret treaty that would have NapoleonIII may have poisoned Cavour because he suggestsa female French agent under orders of evidenceseems to corroborate. The evidence accusationswere made that recently surfaced Piedmont.However, soon after his demise, certain contractedyears before in the rice fields of his native 1861to a severe bout of malaria that he had withthe task of seducing the French emperor. ofCastiglione, Cavour’s own cousin, he entrusted Francean envoy whose beautiful wife, the Countess III’sgoodwill toward the Italian cause, he sent to Garibaldiand Mazzini. To further secure Napoleon provinceof Savoy to France, much to the dismay of swapGaribaldi’s hometown of Nice and the Tuscanyand Romagne, Cavour did not hesitate to Austriafor the annexation to Piedmont-Sardinia of peninsula. Italian the in interests Austria’s counter By1861, aKingdom of Italy that spun out of a Cavour’sdoctors attributed his sudden death in Tosecure French military support against Ambassador 23 WWW.NIAF.ORG 63522_TextX_NIAF Amb 17.4c 3/11/11 10:23 AM Page 24

universal suffrage, a truly representative govern- ment, the issue of local autonomy, the pronounced discrepancy in the standards of living of its citizens, and the enormous economic difference between the industrialized North and the largely agrarian South. The latter, especially, led to many episodes of social unrest and, in the intervening years, prompted a painful mass migratory movement towards far-away countries and, later, internally, from the South of Italy to the North. As for the political shape and extension of Italy, it finally would be completed only after the conclu- sion of WWI (1914-1918) with the addition of Alto Adige, Trentino and Trieste. Yet, as important as all of these people, events and often controversial issues may have been, the consciousness of a common national and cultural soul that shaped the new nation went well beyond the contingent and, at the time, compelling urgency of any of the single elements that contributed to the Risorgimento. Like a mighty river growing and swelling over the A mid-19th century photograph of Giuseppe Mazzini by Domenico Lama, years out of countless drops of rain, feeding thousands an Italian patriot and pioneering photographer of rivulets, the Risorgimento ultimately coincided with a common dream whose sources lie deep in the moun- design rather than a democratic process. tains and in the past. Even today, it represents the This new state did not yet include all of Italy. The most enduring, fundamental factor on which the Papal States and the Pope’s temporal rule were national identity of the new Italy has been built. defended by a strong French military contingent. Veneto was protected by Austrian troops. However, Roberto Severino, a native of Catania, Italy, is a soon the fluid European situation presented Italy with well-known educator. He has written extensively on many the occasion to acquire them both. In 1866, rather literary and historical subjects and is a Professor Emeritus than stay neutral, Italy intervened on the side of Prus- of Italian, Georgetown University. sia in a short-lasting war against Austria (known in Italy as the Third War of Independence) and was rewarded with the annexation of Venice and Veneto. In 1870, the specter of defeat in the Franco- Prussian war forced France to recall all its troops stationed in Rome, allowing the Italian army to take over the remaining Papal territories and occupy Rome on September 20. In October of that year, the Romans voted to join the new state that now “ They created a unified nation that would finally take its rightful place among the modern nations.”

numbered some 25 million inhabitants. And, in July 1871, the city became the capital of a unified Italy. But events leading to a unified Italy had occurred in rapid succession. In just 10 years, from 1861 and 1871, three different Italian cities had been the capital of Italy: Turin (1861-65), Florence (1865-1871) and Rome (since July 8, 1871). And the key achievement of Italian unity was accomplished in only two years (1859-1861). Although exhilarating, it left many social and economic questions unsolved. Still to be dealt with were important issues such as literacy, the right to

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By Marco R. della Cava

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That’s the question, isn’t it? Am I Italian? In spirit, unquestionably and irrevocably. Legally? It was time. actor and neo-realist director Vittorio de Sica, work- ing as his co-star in a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie of Paul Gallico’s “The Small Miracle.” The casting was pure serendipity; it was a rainy day, my mother noticed an open call for young actors. Three script-readings later, I was on location in Assisi playing the orphan Peppino to his Father D’Amico, the last acting role in de Sica’s storied cinematic career. So you could say I moved to Italy. The author and his father, Ralph Della Cava, in 2007, in Afragola, Italy, But, really, Italy moved into me. Ralph’s grandfather’s hometown. The ensuing decades stateside found me unny story. The year is 1997, and I have just consciously seeking out ways to hang onto the Ital- helped open USA Today’s first European ian me. In our New Jersey living room, I’d tune to Fbureau in London. There’s a small party at the fuzzy UHF channels on our black-and-white TV just home of a colleague. His wife strolls up, introduces to watch weekly Italian soccer highlights. I studied herself, and after a few minutes of conversation French, mainly because it made me feel closer to exclaims, “You know, you speak such good English.” Italy. And when my mother brought over a visiting Well, yes. That is what one learns growing up on Italian family one day, I was thrilled to learn they the Upper West Side of Manhattan. But my name— had two boys and planned to stay in New York for a lilting, vowel-packed and impossibly Italian— few years. One of those two boys is among my clos- confused her. And, to be honest, me too. est friends to this day, and our commitment to stay- I am proudly American—the third generation ing in touch is a big reason I am still fluent in the of della Cavas to be born on these shores. But I lived language of Dante. A quick note on my mother, in Italy as a kid, and that experience proved so Olha: She is Ukrainian, and she came to this coun- profound and downright personality altering that, try in 1949. Technically, that makes me more decades later, I would be moved to become a dual Ukrainian than Italian. But while I can understand citizen. Last year, after much multi-generational, that language and have lived in Kiev, I have always bureaucratic hoop-jumping, I received my Italian felt more Italian. To her credit, my mother has citizenship. But for me, that aubergine-colored pass- never taken me to task for that, and has always port staring at me from the bottom drawer of my encouraged my passion for il bel paese. bureau isn’t simply an Italian passport. It is truly a Italy even played a big role in my professional passport into another me. A different me. Certainly awakening. I was awarded a fellowship at college that no better or worse than the American version, but granted me a summer to travel around the peninsula nevertheless a me that now has a home. and chronicle those wanderings. That lit the journal- Although I grew up in New York, fate and my istic fuse that still burns brightly in me. In just over father’s job as a university professor and researcher two decades of reporting for USA Today, I’ve covered took our family of five to Rome in 1971. I was nine, wars, awards shows and earthquakes. But arguably few and would spend the next two years morphing into assignments were as personally thrilling as the ones I not just an Italian, but a true denizen of the Eternal got to do in Italy, from chronicles of Ferraris racing in City. For a while, I didn’t speak Italian, but rather the Mille Miglia road race to the election of a new spat out words almost exclusively in romanaccio slang. pope. I will confess to some glee whenever I told Ital- Not long ago, my mother unearthed an audio ian interview subjects that I was reporting for USA cassette of me telling jokes in Italian. When I Today. Their faces betrayed complete confusion, explained the punch lines in English, you could “Ma, non ho capito, non sei italiano?” barely understand me so heavy was the accent. My immersion was total. Friends made sure I knew all the appropriate curse words and exclama- tions of joy so we could verbally stone or praise our favored soccer teams. I attended a local public school named after Italy’s fabled patriot, Giuseppe Mazzini, and got hammered across the knuckles with a ruler just like the other kids. I joined a den of the Lupetti, Italy’s equivalent of the Cub Scouts, which somehow managed to mix a passion for daily prayer with a commitment to off-beat sketch comedy and the occasional track-and-field competi- Close up of the author’s great-grandfather’s name as inscribed in the tion. I even spent four weeks with the late legendary records of the town of Afragola, Italy. WWW.NIAF.ORG Ambassador 33 63522_Text_NIAF Amb 17.4c 3/9/11 10:57 AM Page 34

That’s the question, isn’t it? Am I Italian? In spirit, unquestionably and irrevocably. Legally? It was time. My father, Ralph, is to be credited with any official tether I now have to Italy. In 2005, after retiring from Queens College as a professor of Latin American history, he began to collect the documents necessary to apply for citizenship through his late grandfather. Raffaele Delle Cave—at the time, the family name was the plural of what it would become—was a lighthouse keeper overseeing the busy Port of Naples. Seeking the new start that enticed all immigrants, he booked passage aboard the S.S. Citta’ di Napoli and pulled up at Ellis Island on Aug. 26, 1903. He soon made the Bronx home and had nine children. One of them, Salvatore, became my father’s father. My father, Ralph, The author’s father, Ralph Della Cava (left), searching for genealogical was the family’s anglicized tribute to Raffaele. documents in the town hall of Afragola, Italy, with Eduoardo Maiello, One interesting twist of fate gave Ralph the retired director of the records office. green light to pursue his Italian citizenship: Raffaele worthy of Detective Columbo and included visits to became a naturalized American citizen in 1925, well musty parishes and calls to aging records keepers. after his children were born. Had Raffaele sought The search for his parents’ marriage certificate liter- this status before the birth of his son Salvatore, his ally solved a family mystery. The Della Cava kids grandson Ralph would have been legally ineligible grew up without seeing official wedding photos of for Italian citizenship. their parents, though a pewter jewelry box resting in The documents my father had to procure were a dresser drawer featured scenes from Niagara Falls. standard items—certificates of birth, marriage and The suspicion that Salvatore and Florence eloped death. But finding some of them provided a hunt was confirmed when, seven decades later, their son tracked down a marriage certificate issued by the town clerk of Pound Ridge, N.Y., a burgh that had Vintage photo of the author’s great-grandfather, Raffaele Delle Cave, never been mentioned in the Della Cava home. then 21, as a private in the Italian Army, with his sister Filomena. In February, 2006, my father submitted his paper- work to the Italian consulate in New York. And he waited. A year passed and still no word. In the spring of 2007, I met up with my father in Naples. We took a public bus about 10 miles inland to the town of Afragola, Raffaele’s hometown. There, we met with Edoardo Maiello, a longtime official in the city’s records office, or anagrafe, who proved instrumental in navigating the maze of public records. More than a decade earlier, Ralph and Signor Maiello had become friends when my father visited the anagrafe out of simple curiosity about his family’s roots, never thinking that one day the evidence of those roots would plant him in that same soil. But a full year after that Neapolitan jaunt, my father was still waiting. Then, in April, 2008, he received a postcard from Afragola urging him to vote in the upcoming presidential elections. Could it be? My father called the consulate. He was indeed a citi- zen and had been since a month after he applied in 2006. Given the large numbers of applications for citizenship (appointments in most Italian consulates now are booked a year in advance), he was supposed to call to check on his status. A simple misunder- standing. But perhaps finding out by postcard from your hometown is the way it really should be after all. My own route to citizenship was comparatively simple. As I sat with my father, his brother Neil, and Neil’s son, Neil Jr., in the ornate offices of the Italian Consulate in San Francisco, the official opposite us looked at the stack of documents we’d prepared and Raffaele Della Cava (seated), who changed his name from delle Cave in shrugged. Then she smiled: “Fratello del cittadino, the 1910s in the Bronx, with sons: Louis on knee and (l to r) Antonio, Albert and Salvatore. figlio del cittadino, nipote del cittadino, molto semplice.” WWW.NIAF.ORG 34 Ambassador 63522_Text_NIAF Amb 17.4c 3/9/11 10:57 AM Page 35

I asked my father what his motivation was for starting this Italian citizenship quest. He thought about it, then answered simply, “I did it for you kids, really . . . Brother, son and nephew of a citizen, simple. And it was. Months later we were invited back to pay for our passports. Perhaps it hadn’t hurt that in that wonderfully small world way, the official overseeing our paperwork not only knew of Afragola, her brother had been born there. Over the past year or two, my sisters Mirka and The author and his family, left to right, Sebastian, 6, Marco, Courtney and Nicholas, 9. Didi have received their Italian citizenship. And I’m Indeed, to be a part of a people that established the in the process of applying on behalf of my pre-teen Foro Romano, created La Commedia dell’Arte and boys, Nicholas and Sebastian, and perhaps later my nurtured the Oscar-winning wit of Roberto Benigni is wife, Courtney. For the boys, perhaps more than for something to blush over. That said, it will take a lot less the rest of us adults, there is an emotional as well as to make me proud. Like walking through customs at practical benefit to being Italian, should they wish to Leonardo da Vinci Airport, hearing the officer ask study or work there when they grow up. For these “Italiano?” and me answering quietly, “Si.” young Americans, their Italian passports will literally be doors they can walk through which, ultimately, will Marco R. della Cava lives in San Francisco and writes only reflect well on a United States that is determined about popular culture for USA TODAY. to be a force in this increasingly borderless world. I asked my father what his motivation was for The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), starting this Italian citizenship quest. He thought in conjunction with the Embassy of Italy, offers a about it, then answered simply, “I did it for you kids, free, online Italian Citizenship Questionnaire to really . . . I guess I feel like I gave you back the facilitate your research and pursuit of Italian citizen- heritage of your great-grandparents and a piece of ship. Visit http://www.niaf.org/citizenship. one of the greatest cultures humanity has shared in.”

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From Pond Scum to Guido Radaelli is Harnessing the Power Power Crop of Photosynthesis from Algae That May One Day Feed and Fuel the World By Patricia L. Beemer

That light-green algae may look Of course, the three are not the further straining limited supplies. like pond scum to you, but to first to suggest using algae to “Producing biofuels with tradi- Guido Radaelli, it’s a wonder crop create biofuels. The idea has tional crops would just increase that has the potential to power our been around for decades but has the problem which is already future and feed the world’s grow- always faltered on the issue of there.” ing population—all while using mass production. In the mean- Like fresh water, he continues, minimal resources and having a time, more traditional crops, such “fertile land is actually very negative carbon footprint. as soy, canola, corn and sugar limited, unless you start chopping Radaelli’s company, Aurora cane, have been turned to this down rainforests in Africa or the Algae, grows optimized strains of use. However, the scientific Far East. So it means that we have marine algae on non-arable land, community has come to view to meet the global food demand using little more than seawater, these alternate fuel sources as a and the global feedstock demand sunlight and industrial carbon dead end, given the rapid growth with the existing fertile land. So if dioxide emissions. At a time of the world’s population and the you want to make biofuels, the when “sustainability” is a buzz- finite availability of fresh water only way to do it is to not use word, Aurora Algae’s technology and fertile land. fertile land. And, of course, our is in the early stages of yielding “Growing crops [for fuel] with technology utilizes desert-like an extraordinarily versatile crop fresh water is not a sustainable land—so, land that cannot be in an exceptionally environmen- solution. There’s simply not used for anything else.” tally-friendly way. enough fresh water for everyone The clean-tech startup has Aurora was co-founded in 50 years from now,” says Radaelli, recently begun operations in a 2006 by Radaelli, Matt Caspari explaining that as people in demonstration plant in Karratha, and Bertrand Vick, who joined developing nations start eating a small town on Western forces as graduate students at the more meat, more fresh water will Australia’s Northwest Shelf, University of California, Berkeley. be consumed in its production, two hours north of Perth.

The pilot facility at Vero Beach, Fla., where Aurora proved its algae harvesting technology on a small scale. 63522_Text_NIAF Amb17.4c3/9/1110:58AMPage38 38 WWW.NIAF.ORG Ambassador studentin Berkeley’s biology BertrandVick, then a doctoral students.They teamed up with Radaelliand Matt Caspari were HaasSchool of Business, where Universityof California Berkeley’s BusinessPlan Competition at the anentry in the 2006 Berkeley ingplants. region’smany natural gas-process- carbondioxide (CO2) from the avirtually inexhaustible supply of limitlessseawater, cheap land and malrainfall, abundant sunshine, growalgae on a large scale: mini- exactlywhat Aurora needs to enterprise.Nevertheless, it offers venuefor any sort of agricultural glance,would seem an unlikely depositsof natural gas and, at first WestShelf is famous for its huge commercialproduction.” thereare much better for the Australiabecause conditions sowe decided to go all the way to “Floridais not ideal to scale up, realistic conditions. nology on a very small scale with in which Aurora proved its tech- pilot project in Vero Beach, Fla., This follows a successful three-year Alamedalabs Petridishgrowing select Aurora’salgae at A selection of Aurora’s optimized strains of algae AuroraAlgae had its genesis as Aridand barren, the North “Unfortunately,”says Radaelli, growthrate. AnastasiosMelis to double algae’s methoddeveloped by Professor growth.They came upon a showedpromise in accelerating technologiesto see if any of them toinvestigate Berkeley-patented Radaelli,Caspari and Vick began morecostly production is. longerthey take to grow, the isthe plants’ rate of growth; the tousing algae to produce biofuels seemedlike anatural fit for him. sustainablebiofuel sources thoseindustries, so developing consultingto worldwide clients in processingtechnologies as well as petrochemical-and natural-gas- spentseven years developing minimalwaste. Radaelli had renewableresources and creating productsand services using tech”—industriesproducing inthe field of so-called “clean thatsector,” he says. dramaticinnovation going on in wholelot of research and mature, very and there wasn’t a conductorbusiness was actually exponential growth were behind it. that high technology’s years of California, though, he realized high-tech field. Once he arrived in planned to seek his fortune in the cooperation with MIT, he’d researching semiconductors in Milano and, for a year thereafter, engineering at Politecnico di While earning his MS degree in proximity to the Silicon Valley. his MBA at Berkeley because of its producebiofuels from algae. tocreate a practical means to produceenergy, and they set out biologyand biotechnology to interestin applying cutting-edge Thethree found they shared an area,”Radaelli says of his partners. thehottest space in the clean-tech calledbio-energy space; that was lookingfor new ideas in the so- department.“They were both The new trend was in the field of so-called “clean tech” “clean so-called of field the in was trend new The renewable resources and creating minimal waste. . . . waste. minimal creating and resourcesrenewable —industries producing products and services using services and products producing —industries Oneof the greatest challenges Thenew trend, he found, was “Iunderstood that the semi- Radaelli had chosen to pursue culturesare dilute, very which presentsits own challenges. Algae algaeare grown, harvesting injectedinto them. Once the andmixed to how CO2 is growingponds are constructed uniqueefficiencies, from how the opedproduction processes with algaethat we utilize.” producesthe unique strain of tionprocess. And so that process,so there is an optimiza- cellsthat are better suited for our strainof algae . . . we select the purposes.Even within the certain oneswe think are better for our selectthe algae; we isolate the organisms.Instead, he says, “We doesnot use genetically modified emphasizesthat the company so-called“super algae.” Radaelli itused biotechnology to create a cienciesin algae production. First, waysto achieve extraordinary effi- notreally practical.” canonly live in the lab, which is whichis amicroorganism that idea...insidea‘model organism,’ “wasthat he demonstrated his “Theproblem,” says Radaelli, ideato do so didn’t pan out. Asit turned out, Professor Melis’ bleto double algae’s productivity. toprove that it was, in fact, possi- elswas created in Alameda, Calif. bythe end of 2006, Aurora Biofu- fundthe initial startup phase and, Partnersand Noventi, united to mentPartners, Gabriel Venture venturecapital firms, Oak Invest- talcommunity. Before long, three fromSilicon Valley’s venture capi- importantly,a lot of attention onlya $30,000 prize but, more competition—whichbrought not impressed,and the trio won the production.The judges were wouldgrow algae for biofuel proposalto start a company that PlanCompetition with their enteredUC Berkeley’s Business sor,licensed his technology, and Additionally,Aurora devel- Aurorawas able to find its own Thecompany’s first task was Thetrio met with the profes- 63522_Text_NIAF Amb 17.4c 3/9/11 10:58 AM Page 39

Guido Radaelli at Aurora’s headquarters in Alameda, Calif.

requires that any harvesting Along the way, it became clear lenge that is practically universal to process must be capable of sepa- that Aurora’s algae could be used startup companies, Radaelli rating single cells from the water. to produce a range of valuable explains, “We want to be as prof- Rather than employing the tradi- products beyond biofuels. It itable as possible in the shortest tional method of centrifuging the yields a high-potency Omega-3 term, and we [will be able to] water out of the culture, Aurora oil, an attractive alternative to fish make biodiesel profitably, but only on a very large scale. “The other big challenge, of course, is to build a company “In order to get there, we need and get total support through the industry, a lot of capital and a lot of time. By simply adding new products to prove that our products are really what we say they are . . .” our portfolio, we can boost the economics of our process and get looked to the wastewater industry oils for nutritional supplements to profitability in a much tighter for new ideas. It developed its and pharmaceuticals. It also time frame, which also would be a own proprietary technology, contains a high-quality, allergen- great stepping stone into the which extracts the algae with a free protein, which can be added biofuel-centric production.” minimum consumption of chemi- to food and used in nutritional Today, Radaelli is Aurora’s cals and power. supplements. The remaining vice president for engineering. Once Aurora had developed algae mass becomes a nutritious, He sets the course of the its algae strains and its produc- protein-rich feed for fish and company’s proprietary technol- tion and harvesting processes, it animals. These products—partic- ogy and oversees its implementa- raised a second round of venture ularly the Omega-3 oil—show tion through the design, procure- capital and set up a pilot plant in great promise for bringing ment and construction of Vero Beach, Fla. Over three years, Aurora to profitability far more facilities, from the lab to large- it proved the viability of Aurora’s quickly than biofuels alone. scale production. Caspari is the technology on a small scale. Last For this reason, Aurora decided company’s managing director year, the company secured a third in 2010 to expand its portfolio to and oversees the company’s round of venture capital that include these products, and it Australian operations. Vick is the allowed it to build its facility in changed its name accordingly to company’s chief scientific officer. Australia and begin production. Aurora Algae. Describing a chal- The company has dozens of WWW.NIAF.ORG Ambassador 39 63522_Text_NIAF Amb 17.4c 3/9/11 11:00 AM Page 40

patents filed for its innovations in spare time. science and engineering, and it When he is home in Oakland, has approximately 70 employees. Calif., he likes motorcycling with Together with an executive his wife, Federica Sarti, who is team brought in by the company’s pursuing a PhD in molecular investors, the trio faces the chal- biology at UC Berkeley. “Califor- lenges of scaling up Aurora’s nia’s coast, of course, is an ideal production to commercial levels scenario for road trips,” he says. in the new facility in Australia. While he rides a Honda, her “The other big challenge, of wheels reflect a fitting apprecia- course, is to build a company and tion for Italian engineering and get total support through the design. “She has a Ducati.” industry, prove that our products are really what we say they are and Patricia L. Beemer is a freelance get sales contracts,” says Radaelli. writer living in Orange County, Calif. Getting the Australian facility She has profiled scientists, business running leaves Radaelli with little leaders and athletes for Ambassador. Guido Radaelli inspects one of the elements of his proprietary engineering process.

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A P P R E C I AT I O N :

Joseph R.Cerrell

By Don Oldenburg

There was the time when Joe Cerrell was driving John F. Kennedy through Los Ange- les, maybe 1960, before the Democratic National Conven- tion that nominated JFK. Just the two of them, no Secret Service, no police escort, nobody recognizing the young and charismatic U.S. sena- tor—or Joe, for that matter. Kennedy turned to Joe and said he wants to go to Mass. Joe steered into the first Catholic Church he sees. When the offering plate came around, Joe put in $5 and passed it to Kennedy, who hesitated and said, “Joe, I don’t have any money. Put some money in the plate.”

Those were days when Joe was young and cash-strapped. He

pulled out $5 and Kennedy whispered, “That won’t do, Joe, put in T at least a twenty.” Joe reaches deeper for his only $20 bill and said, h a b “That’s a lot of money, senator.” Years later, Joe’s favorite part of

the story was that Kennedy never paid him back. JFK owed Joe. When Joseph R. Cerrell died on Dec. 3, 2010, at the age

of 75, with his loving family by his side, so many people, like Kennedy, one way or another, owed Joe. WWW.NIAF.ORG

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On Thinner Ice

NHL All-Star Mike Modano Skates into the Twilight of His Career with Plenty of Puck By Wayne Randazzo

One of the greatest Ameri- Minnesota with the NHL Wild, point lead over Nashville and a can-born skaters of all-time retire, or go home to play for the 10-point advantage over the could be in his final season on Red Wings. When Modano defending champions in Chicago. the ice. Mike Modano, the signed with Detroit, head coach Detroit currently has the second- former number one overall Mike Babcock envisioned him as best record in the Western draft pick of the Minnesota the center of his third line with Conference with Dallas in third. North Stars in 1988, was skating Dan Cleary and Jiri Hudler. If both squads continue to along with the Detroit Red Babcock's dreams turned into a march toward the postseason, the S P O R T S Wings this season after his long- reality almost as soon as Modano potential for Modano to face the time ties with the North Stars

(since 1993 the Dallas Stars) ON were cut last summer. Unfortunately for Modano, a freak accident in November may sideline him until the playoffs. He severed a tendon and suffered nerve damage in his right hand after a skate cut his wrist. “If there's a silver lining, it's that it happened in November, but when you're feeling good and healthy, you just want to continue going and playing,” Modano says. “Now it's just a matter of building up the strength again.” Modano doesn't expect to lose any long-term functionality to the wrist or hand. He's hopeful for a March return. He considered not even playing this season. After being told that he wouldn't be returning to the Stars, the only franchise he's ever known, retire- Mike Modano in 2006 during his Dallas Stars days on the ice against his current team, the Detroit Red Wings. NIAF honored Modano at its 2010 Texas Gala. ment didn't seem that far away. At 40, Modano has played well touched the ice. On just his Stars in the playoffs is a real possi- past most hockey players, but he's second shift of the first period in bility. Dallas still holds a lot of never been like most hockey play- his first game, Modano took a respect for Modano. Notorious ers. He was only the second pass from Cleary and slid a wris- NHL trash-talker Steve Ott calls American to be drafted with the ter past Anaheim goalie Jonas Modano “a brother.” But Modano first overall pick after Brian Hiller for his first goal with the isn't caught up in the hypotheti- Lawton turned the trick Red Wings. cal scenario, he just wants to play. in 1983. Only four men have Modano didn't play particu- “It's been tough to just sit and done so since. larly well after that. It took him watch,” Modano says. “The Modano is also the all-time several games to net his second process of healing can be long goal-scoring and points leader goal. But just before the injury, and drawn out, but I can't wait to among American-born players his game began to improve. get back out there.” and the last active NHL player to “I was physically feeling great at have suited up for the North the time,” Modano says. “I was Wayne Randazzo is the editor of Stars, a team that ceased to exist getting much more comfortable in Red, White & Green, the official after moving to Dallas and the situation here, and I was glad publication of the National Italian becoming the Stars following the to have an opportunity to play.” American Sports Hall of Fame. 1992-93 season. Since Modano's absence, the He's also the play-by-play voice of the A native of Livonia, Mich., Red Wings have begun to pull AA Mobile BayBears Baseball Club Modano had three choices last away in the NHL's Central Divi- and a freelance sports anchor for

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