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71x illlliclfij" (lSSN 107').7619) JS~bylhr blicSrudics ~ Italian American Radio ...... I 0 l.nc;., PO 0.. 818, Roc:JI f\ulc. NY 1100 I. Bul<~wil fXl'l'lt\" pMd x l'lcnl Imperial Italy ...... 12 ?.ale, NY 11001. C!998 by me 1m1ie Swclcs IMJ!\11)0, Tnc. All .V•os ..,...,..J. 11x IIRiir Wfr;- is a t Letters [Ed. ~ wiU shy away from th~ smzanria oft.l~t word people with disasrrous results and his comical use of "hard-toll:." Suffice it to say that one jos~h Profari has malaprops had no end - but in the real everyday matk most ofIlK history books on Nnu l0rk ganf!tm. life of thar era we did know many immigrants of all WRONG GUY? Hotvewr. ux can apprrriateyour fond manories ofhim types that did fie his model and, of course, Chico's I recendy rc:~d volume XXVII of Tb, Italic Wly as a monbo ofyour extnuied family. Unforrrmately, piano playing always gave testimony tO the Italian's (my firsr issue) and was both pleased and disrurbed your drftnse ofth~ Mafias origins, as a S!Jmuood Fomt love: of music. As a life-long srudenr of the Marx by your article "Millennium." I was pleased that the ~pic, is no doubt 011e of tlx rrason.s the media nm Bros. I can say this: lnirially when they hie the article exposes the discrimination Italian Americans amuck at our f:Xptnse. The sadfoa thar that viewpoim vaudeville circuit Chico was known as "The Dago." have been, and continue co be. s~1bjeaed to by the i.s popular among many /talilln-Amoicam CllUStS us An agent larcr on had then1 cha ngc his name as thcir entertainment media. As one of Joseph Profaci's concern. Thanks for thr imighr.j aa with rhc harp and piano playing had roo much many grandchildren, however, I was distwbed by d~ . your reference ro him as a "hard-core criminal." I BORN AGAIN Walter Santi, Bloomington, IL have never before heard him described in that It is a privilege to be a member of lralic Srudies. manner, nor even by the FBI. By labeling him a T'vc fi nally found an organizarion which expresses HJlTING A UNGUISTIC NERVE "hard-core criminal" as you do, you perpetuate my views complercly. I used to be a member of In your mosr recenr All1ralinna section of The those same stereotypes, and also help perperuare dis [another lralia n·American organi1.acion], but found lmlic Wzyyou claim that more U.S. high school sru sension among the Italian American community. the organization ro be qu ire lacking in judgemenr, dencs srudy Larin than Italian. While your claim You also do a disservice to his nwnerous hard e.g. recogniz.iog and honoring actors who portray may be correct, iris also highly misleading. In U.S. working and law abiding descendants who are Italians in a oegarive way. I wish you the very best. coUeges and universities, according ro dam from crying so hard co casr off the chains of chis &lse Maria Powers, lindenhurst, NY various sowces, ir is Italian that is more smdied than legacy. I hope that in the furure you will be more Latin, being in 5th place among foreign languages, careful. CHICO MARX EXCUSED against Latin's still-popular 7th position. In the You also fail ro recognize that what you call the U.K 's inscirutions of higher education the position "mafia," far from having crime as irs raison d'ttrt, [Regarding the article in rhe November 1997 issue ''Hollywood vs. Ital of Italian is ac a respectable 6th place, while Latin was co a large degree a surrogare govern ment and a I rhere, curiously enough, doesn't even figure among sysrem of justice and even an ideal and way of life, ians"] beg ro differ that the top 10 languages studied! for a people who had silently and with dignity the Marx Bros. character 1n my view, the only place where Italian has endured the major portion of the last 2,500 years of Chico was a negative already become a dead language is in Thr Italic "Wzy. under rhe domination of hostile foreign govern portrayal of an Italian You use Dante's language only in tidbits here and ments. immigro.nr. Chico came there, more for effccr than our of sincere linguistic That said, all in all, your arcide was wonderful. across as a good-hearted patronage, and you usc rhe language with about the Keep up the good wor:k. but bumbling type thar same frequency as an educated Italian would use Vmcent J. Profaci, Apopka, FL was always crying co help Contim~d on page 3 1 EVER DEPENDABLE WATERPROOFING & RESTORATION CO. • Caulking • Stone Repair • Parapet Reconstruction • Lintel Replacements • Flashing • Concrete Parching • Pointing • Brick Repair • Roofing, All Phases • Waterproofing • Parapet Encapsulation • Cleaning Local Low 10 Reports & Compliance For FREE Consultation and Estimate . . . CALL 1-800-654-FLAG =:_::_: WATERPROOFING & RESTORATION 769 Elmont Road • Elmont, NY 11 003 ---___ _..___------__ .__ - ---1&1- (516) 285-8899 me criminals he was prosecuring. medical researchers, arrisrs, and jurisrs rhat are not Letters Hismrians have considered Dewey, who died in being made? 1971, an honesr, strait-laced, somber figure. Surely, l don't lose my right ro complain just Dewey's son, Thomas E. Dewey, Jr, in a lerrer because Hollywood people with Italian-American Latin! Indeed, I'm afraid rhar one mighr hear more published in Tht Ntw I'Ork 71mLS. said mar "no v-alid name!> w.tm ro h~-de bucks at rhc experue of rhe Italian on Radio Japan, than read ir in Till: Italic claim of artistic license can be invoked ro jlL~rify community's good nan1e. I don't recall ddegaring \Wty... such a malicious reinvention of a h isrorical figure, my conscience, my intelligence and my good name Cesidio Tallini, S. Aoral Park, NY particularly when a fictional character could have ro !heir mercies. [Ed. That pitct was a wak~up caU for ludimr km been created rl) fill me role." One rhing is absolutely clear. We shall never solve guagt promotion but also Ollt' ofpridt (str the fii'WJ In recent weeks, Mr. Dewey senr alerrer ro Frank me problem by pretending ir will go av... ay without fXUrpr thru folknvs). Latin is, nfur ali, an italic lon Mancuso, rhe MGM chairman, abour the depiction our doing anydling abour ir. We've done mac ever guagt! As for dropping our l~nlian section, it may of his F.nher. 'rlte response. from Mr. Mancuso's since The Godfotbtrcame our. mum ifmougb roukn art really inumttd} lawyers, said: "This film was a work of fiction, and Where has it gotten us? While African Americans ir was presented as such ro rhe public. MGM has and Hi$panics have made significant strides by FlASH.. * (Chicago 1nburr~. Octobn- 6. 1997) nor violated any legally cogni2.1ble right<; of cirher sranding up for their rights. we aU too ofren pretend A srudcm named Gail Bremner was among 240 your futher or your fumily. ~ me world will leave us alone if we just hide in our shdls. It hasn't and ir won't. Only me courage ro acr srudenrs of Larin from twelve Chicago-area schoob [ED. Manmso ruas tht Paramount Studios c!JUfwho will win us me respect rhar our rich culrure so richly and one in Springfield ... rhey countered rhe myth produced 1ht GodfoJ!Jl'r Sllga. Dtfomation, rllmic or deserves. d1ar Latin is a dc:1d language. Teachers ar me Roman personal, t'omrs wir!J t!Jt profirs.} festival estimated chat 7,000 Ulinois high school sru Michael Polelle, Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School denrs are studying latin. Classes arc even held for NO R£LIEF IN SIGHT 6rh, 7rh and 8th graders at Barrington Middle {MEDIA TIDBITS. 77Jr Nm' ~rk 77mn. \Vrdnnday. School, where 110 youngsters have d1osen Latin BREAKTHROUGH Nor>tmbn- 19. 1997} / This tuns the mponst to nlettrr stl/1 by o11r Midwesr rrp. over languages such as French and Spanish. Others Mr. Moonves ofCBS-lV said, uwe even have an Bi/J Oaf Cerro roncerni11g thf polirica/Jy incon-ea RICO believe ir will help rhem wirh language arrs ques idea in dt'Vclopmenr wirh Francis Ford Coppola. He STDtllte: /Wkm fnspirrd Crimi1111l Organivztilm.} tions on the American College 'lesr and Scholastic has a grt:at idea for a kind of Mafia soap opera." Aprimde Test. Until rhe ticle of the law is cl1anged by Congress. CBS h:~d an enormous success l'ISt SC!lSOn with every issue of rhe wc:ckly "Advance Sheers" for rhc Bremner, who may pur..uc a career in medicine. anomer Mafia miniseries, Tht Last Do11, and ir will is looking for a way ro get the edge on other students Fedeml Reporter and me Federal Supplement will bring our Tht LAst Do11ll thi~ May. contain cases discussing "RJCO,ft perperuaring in SAT scores. Mr. Moonves said he was especially pleas«! with (perhaps at a subconscious level) a link berween "I wanr ro be a veterinarian, and Larin will help rhe perfom1a11ce of &/Ia Mafia because me show's ltalo-Amerieans and organized crime. me understand medical terms, ~ he said. raring dwarfed th.1r of rhe hugely ocpensivt: rhe What might have ~urred as an ~inside joke" for :mic:tl movie, &mum Fo1'1!1Jl'r, on NBC, dmving a Congressional staffers has been enshrined as a con PRO-ASSIMILATION 14.8 raring to &ttMan's 8.3. (Each raring point rep tinuing insult ro kalo-Americans. In the future I will l wish <..--very Italian-American could read your re~nlS 980,000 homes). try ro use a more neutral phrase, such as "civil rack article, "Mi.Uenniwn; Will we Survive?" uwe had dte cheapest movie, and we won, n Mr. eteering law." However, iris "rhe American way" to discard our Moonves said. Steve P. Garmisa, Chicago, lL immigrant past. As lralians, we have much ro be Actor Roben Admiral-De Niro (he is only one proud oF, bur our Jralian-ness is only a small part of quarter lralian) claims rhar if rhe script is right - (Ed. nou: Mr. Gamtisa wrius a wukfy lAw column for what we are. lr is seldom in me forefronrofourcon hejob by tht! Chimgo Crime Commission nfirr Bi/J obsm;ed Thank you for your profo~md and thought-pro on rhe lralic Community has arrived at some new thnt their rr:cently p11blishcd Book of Crime utilized voicing article, which gor ro rhe heart of me Irali;m statistics. Afrer reviewing 21 0 more movie plots Bill American di lemma. 11wstly photos oflwlic gangrrm.} determined chat of a total of 651 movies since rhe "Chicago has always had a diverse organized Dan A. D'Amelio, Yucaipa, CA 1930's 120 (18%) have been positive. This is higher crime element. This diversity is greater than any rhan rhc 12% figure Bill arrived at in his article in similas organizations in points easr of Chicago. NO APOLOGIES our last is.suc. As Bill explains it he is finding more Apparently tl)c years of Hollywood hype and d1e (Tiu Ntw nrk Timrs, prc-Godforhtr movies. SriU. rhe overwhelmingly Octobn- 10, 1997/ majority (82%) have been gangster or buffoon glorification of me Chicago [Italian] Outfit has A new film. HoodLum, related and mey have been predomincndy of me remained in rhe minds of me general public. recendy released by GodforherCia (1972 ro present). Tite point is that we Wayne A. Johnson, Chief lnvestigawr MGM/UA, raises rhe bad more balanced media before Franky Coppola Chicago Crime Commission issue. The 111m, about and Shorty Scorsese. gangsters in Harlen1 in ERRATA the 1930's, depicrs THE RIGHT TO COMPlAIN We rhank readers Frank Longo of Sraren Thomas E. Dewey- rhe {This lettn- rVfls writtm by onr o/our Chicago mtmbm to Island, NY, and Joseph Maselli of New Orleans former Governor of New Fra Noi. ('tlmong 011/JtlvtS") a Chicagolmrd nlmir for pointing our an error in parr one of rhe York, a two-time Repub monthly. Ocrobn- 1997} ulralian-Americans In jazz" article (Vol. XXVI): lican Presidential Many of us arc frankly angry abour me commer Dominick "Nick" La Rocca was a cornetist, nor a nominet and a New York prosecutor in me 30's cial exploitation of me Ma.6a rheme. Whar abour aU clari nerisr. as a corrupt public official who accepted bribes from d1e rrue stories of the outstanding Ira! ian scientists. Please address all letters to: Letters, The Italic Way, P.O. Box 818, Floral Park, New York 11001 XXVJJI, 1998 3 ALL'I raLzana GLORIA ITALIAE • Medal of Honor recJpteor, Peter Dalessandro, 79, was also believed to be • Sonny Bono, 62, talented and versacile composer, vocalist, entre the second most decorated American preneur, and political activist died tragically in a skiing accident. veteran of the Second World War, after Bono, born of Sicilian parenrs, broke into the music business as a Audie Murphy. Among his ocller citations singer/meat delivery driver who caught the arremion of some were three Purple Hearrs, two Silver Stars, music executives. Ten of his recordings with singing parmer Cher a Bronze Star, and the French Croix de went gold. Among his hits were Needles and Pins (for the Guerrc. He was wounded and captured in Searchers), Baby Don't Go, I Got l0u Babe, and The Bent Goes On. Germany in 1944. In 1994, he was elecred co Congress as a Republican from Cali fornia where he gained the respect of his colJeagues for his prag • Richard Donopria, 90, pioneered rhe muJciple event arena in matic and satirical criticism of Congressional antics. 1941. As the new building superintendent of rhe old Madison Square Garden, Donopria developed the techniques to convert • Claire Giannini Hoffman, 92, daughter of banking genius A.P. arenas from onesporringcvenr to another. He held this position for Giannini, founder of the Bank of America. Giannini Hoffinan 55 years until age 80. became the first woman ro serve on rhe boards of Bank of America (1949-1986) and Scars, Roebuck & Company (1963-1970). • Jean Pasqualini, 71, was born of Chinese and Corsican parenrs and suffered persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communjsrs • Joseph Alioto, 81, the dynamic mayor because he worked as a translator for foreigners. His 7-ycar impris of San Francisco during the 1960's. His onmem and the publication of his book, Prisoner ofMao, was the bold administration fostered the consrruc firsr expose' on the horrid Communist penal system. tion of over 100 high-rise buildings including the signature Transamerica • Police training specialist Livio Beccaccio, 58, was killed in a U.N. Pyramid (Transamerica was founded by helicopter crash in Bosnia during a tour to revive local police forces that ocher San Francisco giant A.P. Gian in that war-ravaged country. Prior to his death, Beccaccio was on nini) and the Embarcadero Center. His the training staff of the F BJ. Academy at Quantico, VA, where he quest for the governorship in 1969 (the provided training to 1,000 police officers per year. A very compet year PUZ() published The Godfather) was itive man with a quick sense of humor, he was once surprised by a stymied by a slanderous article in Look class of270 men who donned masks with Beccaccio's likeness. "I've Magazine linking him to La Cosa Nostra. been here 15 years," said Mr. Beccaccio without pause, "and I must Alioto sued and won $350,000 in damages, the cost of whicl1 led tell you that chis is the best-looking class that's ever come through Look to bankruptcy. He ran and won the mayorship in 1971 bm rhis academy." lost a later bid for the statehouse ro Jerry Brown. • Physicist and electronics engineer Eugene Fubini, 84. Born and • Boxing Chant pion Willi.e Pastrano, 62, who taught Mohammed educated in ltaly, Fubin.i journeyed co the United Stares with his Ali how to dance in the ring during sparring sessions, died in his facl1er who had received a reaching position in Princeton, NJ. place of birth- New Orleans. Willie's father, Frank, inspired him to Because of his ex.perrise in the new microwave technology, he was use his fisrs after a childhood bully smacked the overweight lad one employed by the American military co develop jamming operations day. Prank chealened to bear Willie up if he did not defend himsel£ against Axis radar during the Second World War. He Iacer wem on Willie's career culminated in the light-heavyweight championship ro become the Assistant Defense Secretary for research and devel in 1963. opment during the Kennedy Administration. His career then rook him to IBM where he was a group vice president. • France's master jazz violinjst, Stephane Grappelli, 89, helped co sharrer the image of jazz as exclusively American. Inspired by • Television news consultant Ron Tindiglia, 51, is widely credited American jazz greats like violinist Joe Venuti and Louis Armstrong, with helping to develop cl1e "Eyewitness News" format char is a Grappelli also studied Gypsy guirarisrs to find his niche. staple across America. He also pioneered the prototype business news format with a program called Todays Business. • Sabatino Moscati, 74, linguist, archaeologist and specialist in up the Secret Service ladder. Among his assignments over the Semitic hisrory. Professor Moscati brought the world's attention years was direct responsibility for rhe President's and First ro the Semiric influence across rhe Mediterranean including their Family's safety. Director Merlerri is a native of Pirrsburgh. significant colonial presence in Sicily, sharing t:he island with rhe Running unopposed for a second term as Mayor of Boston, native Italic people and the colonizing Greeks. Thomas Menruno can make us proud. He was the first Italian American to break the Irish lock on Boston politics. He has a • Guirarisr Tommy Tedesco, 67, king of the studio musicians was 74% approval raring. rarcd "rhe most recorded guimrist in hisrory" by Guitar Player With rhe departure of Gov. Magazine. His solo guitar is most memorable in the theme from William Weld from the Massa Bonanza, bur he also provided the music for M-..A"S*H, Batman, chusetts statehouse i11 a failed and Green Acres. Tedesco was cl1e guitarist behind major rock 'n' pursuit of an ambassadorship ro roll recordings like, MacArthur Park (Richard Harris), Strangers in Mexico, rhe Lt. Governor the Night (Sinatra), & My Baby (Ronerres), Gypsies, Tramps and assumed command. That man is Thieves (Cher), Eve of Destruction {Barry McGuire), 111u've Lost Paul Cellucci (sell-00-chee). that Lovin' Feeling (Righteous Bros.) and many, many more. One of his flrsr acts in office was ro redecorate rhe office wirh a • Giovanni Oi Chiro, 70, was a pioneer in compmer-imaging the porrrair of former governor John ccnrral nervous system, including MRl. He was born and edu Volpe, also an Italian-American. cated in Naples. moving to the Unired Stares in 1958. Down came the ponrair of noto rious former Governor James • Master jockey Eddie Arcaro, 81, won rwo Triple Crowns and Curley "rhc rascal king". The five Kentucky Derbies, rode 4,779 winners and earned some $30 lralic ride is sweeping Massachuserrs. million in purses during his career. The New York office of the FBI is now headed by career agent Lewis Dennis Scbiliro. This 48-year old Fed's appoinrmenr was • Pete Comandini, 56, pioneered film restoration techniques. well-earned. He was the undercover agcnr who penetrated the Among his credits are Gone with the Wind. Snow White and the rrash-hauling industry and helped free ir from the grip of orga Seven Dwarfi, and She WOre a Yellow Ribbon. nized crin1e. He was parr of the ream that busted the Pizza Drug Connection, the Lufrhansa Heisr, and 'leflon Don Goni. His new adversaries are rhe Russian Mob and rhe Iberian-American HIGH PLACES carrels. Two of the most sensitive posi tions in U.S. Government have LOSING VOTES been given to lralian-Americans. There was once a rime when it was jnconceivable to have a The new head of the IRS, Charles non-lralian pope. Bm since Rossotti, 56, is a management rhe elevarion of rhe Polish systems expert who headed Amer pontiff, John Paul II, the ican Management Systems, a Sacred College of Cardinals, leader in global technology. He rhe body t:har elects a new says he'll need ten years to mod pope, has been de-Jralian erniz.e and redirect the lumbering ized. During his reign Pope bureaucracy. Appointing a rech John Paul JI has appointed nical whiz to the iRS is a firsr - 106 of rhe 123 voting cardi the usual job requirement was rax nals. Of rhis roral only 23 law and accounting - and Rossoni's first challenge will be to are Italian. Although the prevenr a Year 2000 blackout in the agency's outdated computer Italians make up che largest system. single nationality it is a far Presidenr Clinron's new Direcwr of the Secret Service is Lewis cry from their dominance Merletti, an Army Special Forces veteran who worked his way over the centuries. 5 WORLD NOTES Mr. Ray pleaded guilty to the murder in CASSINI IN ORBIT 1968 bur recanted three days Iacer. He was Much controversy surrounded the suc convicted anyway and is serving a 99-year cessful Launch last October of the Cassini sentence. A former Memphis District spacecraft: ro Saturn. The fear was, and srill Anorney, John Pierotti, doesn't buy the is, that a failure of rhe launch and orbir scory. adding, "There should be a pest law could rain down to earth 72 pounds of against people who advance rhese theories HEIR TO INDIA radioactive pluronium. Although the that lead nowhere." Her name payload goc off safely, Cassini will swing by In the case of G ianni Versace, rhe mur and face have Earth in 1999, withjn 500 miles, before derer's (Andrew Cunanan) mother has appeared on the forces of rhe universe carry ir ro Saruro. defended her late son by blaming the Mob chis page a The plutonium is considered by rhe project for sening him up. The English press number of scientists to be the most dependable energy picked up on the theory publishing articles rimes as her source ro transmit signals during the eleven in The Observer, Punch Maga.zine, and The prominence year mission. (Notn bene: Enrico Fermi Tndependent that suggested Versace was grew. She is pioneered the use of atomic energy and into money laundering for the Mafia. T he Sonia Gandhi, Guglielmo Marconi developed radio trans Versace Family sued rhe three publications widow of slain mission.) and received retractions and hefty setde Indian Prime Cassini is a NASA project buL the menrs. Minister Rajiv Italian Space Agency provided a specially Such is d1e power of Hollywood images Gandhi. We designed probe rhat wiJJ be released on in rhe global village. follow her life Tiran, a moon of Sawrn. The chairman of Italy's space agency called Cassini " ... rhc because she is WOMEN OF NOTE Jralian by birth and heritage and a major link that connects this millennium to the player in the policies of a subconrinenr, the next." • The new Miss most populace (nearly a billion) democracy By the way, Cassini was named for Gian Italy is a srunning in the world. Domenico Cassini, a I 7th Century Italian beauty from Cal Called out of her seclusion by the astronomer. abria named former ruling Congress Parry, the party of Claudia Trieste. Nehru, indira Gandhi and her own late MOB JOBS? This 18-year old is husband, Mrs. Gandhi has embarked on a Thanks, in part, to the media, the presendy enrolled political campaign to win popular support legend ofLtr Cosa Nostm grows each year. It in a high school for the party. She docs so in the national has been linked to rhe assassination of Pres for science. inreresr. India has suffered [rom a prolifer idem Kennedy, the hare-br::t.ined scheme to • The first Italian ation of splinter parries - some 14 make poison Fidel Castro's cigMs, and now ir is American woman up the current ruling coalition. And being blamed for the murders of Gianni on a U.S. postage although she has refrained from seeking Versace and Martin Lurher King. stamp (32ct) is office (elections were held in February and According to Rosa Ponselle, a F.unous opera star earlier March) many crowds have hailed her as convicted King as this cenrury. Born in Connecricur of "Pri me Minister Sonia". sassin James EarJ Neapolitan parents, her calenr brought her Ofcourse, rhcre arc chose who would be Ray, a Memphis on stage wirh Caruso and a private perfor appalled by a foreigner holding such power grocer with Mafia mance for Puccini. bur we can, for now, savor the idea of an connections, Frank Italian lady ar the head of such a great Liberto, actually • Traly just may be coming LO grips wirh irs nation as India. Forza Sonin! paid someone ro -~:.;..o'·:.._-... pasc. A grandmother named Raffadla hire someone else Duelli finally reached the hearts of lraly's m kill Dr. King. polirical leadership widl her aurobiog- 6 raphy, Gmndmother, You Who Fought in the ership of Captain Cammi (Catherine) swallow at the close ofWorld War II are not Wm· (1996). lr is rhe srory of an almost 18- Granaro of Downers Grove, IL. Ovc:mll, sitting well wirh many lraliru1s today. ycar old Raffaclla who volumeered to serve lcaly's narional team placed in rhe top ten Forced by Yugoslav terror and by an Allied in Mussolini's Republican forces in 1944 co of all competing nations, rying host Japan dittttt from ancestral lands around the ciry defend Icaly from me Allied invasion. She with 10 medals. of Trieste (the Isrrian peninsula), Italian sustained injuries on rhe batdefidd at Also note, the Olympic Committee refugees were promised just compensation Anzio ru1d was evenrually taken prisoner. recencly announced rhar Torino, lcaly, will for their losses. To date, neither Slovenia or After the war she and her veteran husband host the 2006 winter games. Croatia, the new spin-offs of Yugoslavia collected the bodies of hundreds of which now possess this region, has made unknown Republican soldiers killed at TIMES AREXCHANGING good irs promise. Thousands of displaced Anzio that were improperly buried and ltaliru1s have protested rhe injustice de reinterred them in her family cemetery. • The Italians have already surpassed the manding that the l£aljan Republic block Her burning wish was ro have the lcaliru1 British in economic prowess but now these Slovenia's entry into the Europe3;n Com governmenr establish a new military ceme spunky lads wanr ro rackle, literally that is, munity chis year until accounts have been tery at Nerruno, ncar Anzio, co honor these the whole British lslGabriel RordJo and Iraly made che Miehclwgelo Signorile, have published first draft. new books condemning the revival of the reckless sex culrure among homosexuals. A • The harsh rerms new generation of gays no longer fears of surrender that AIDS and has rt:turned to the unsafe prac lcaly had to First-ever Gold In Snowboarding went to Ross Rebagllati. tices of the 60's and 70's. 7 EOzroRzaLs THE FUTURE COMES IN A SMALL runately, Hiu..oner didn't appear in drag as the Italian PACKAGE mamma, a role he created for Saturday Niu Live. Pride runs deep! Displaying a courage that has thus far eluded mosc halo Another Aurora year is under our bdr. Over 200 young American organizations, France's gendarmes rounded up sters of varying ethnic backgrounds were exposed ro Italic wiseguy·wannabe Bobby DeNiro for 16 hours of qucs· culture, many probably for the fust time in their lives. cioning concerning a sex-for-cash proscirucion ring. Bobby co Thanks the effons of Aurorn Direcror Tony De Nonno "You calkin' co me" DeNiro has vowed never to return co the and Center Coordinator John Misso our program reached land of the Bastille. Moreover, he has thcacened co return his five counties and obtained grants from rhe Italian govern· French Legion of Honor Medal (fac chance) as a political ment and the National Italian American Foundation scacemenr. (touchy rouchy) Although not formally charged Italic people arc supposedly fond of children yet how with any crimes, DeNiro was clearly ruffled by his trearmem many organi1.arions would even deal with pre-rcens? I ar the ha.nds of the Paris police. Perhaps DeNiro's many vividly remember some eleven years ago when we starred years of portraying mobsters have made him a likely cargec Aurora how we were warned rhat kids were nothing bur oflaw enforcement officials everywhere. Viv<" La Franc.-!!! trouble and nor worth our effort ro reach them fraJian Elsewhere on the Continent the Italians are beginning co culture. Let's face it, it's easier to give an 18-year old a $500 understand chc ultimate price of bad image. Both President scholarship and wave good-bye than to entertain and teach Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Prime Minister Romano Prodi a roomfuls of 11-year olds the Italian language and history. protested Britain's "insulting" selection of the pizza as the Only our Institute ha.s accomplished this on a mass scaJe. lr national symbol of Icaly on the European Union's logo. The is a very positive achievement. unflappable Brits blamed a panel of school children for the Two hundred children today can mean 400 or 4,000 choice of national symbols and refused to change ir " .... no tomorrow. These small lives arc the furure that many of us insult of any kind was incended." Ireland's symbol is an have overlooked. They deserve more arrenrion, more emerald scar; Austria boascs musical notes, Germany has a resources, more programs. These young minds deserve more forest and others display national flags or colors. But the than lip service, mafia movies, and benign neglect. Aurora cradle of civilization must settle for a regular cheese pie. can be rhe parh to a great italic culure, one based on the pos Finally, Italian-American activists in Chicago were vindi itive and constructive clements our of enviable legacy. cated when a di~pised sports columnist was caught in lnpsw Aurora must open the minds of American youth just as linguae verbally bashing Iralian athleres ar the Olympics. The ltalir Way opens rhe minds of adults. Suppon it! The culprit, Scevc Rosenbloom, had previously wrirccn an Promote it! unflacrering scory in the Chicago Tribune about basketball coach Rick Pitino, juxtaposing a photo of the talented coach beside one of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano (murderer and A WORLD GONE MAD turncoat) alluding co a recent career move by Pitino. Scores of irate Italian-Americans picketed the Tribtm<" demanding Rosenbloom's apology - which never came. Pan co OnJy a quarcer of the way through the new year and the Nagano, japan. Rosenbloom is on the air describing an stereorypes have become even more enrrenched. Italian skier coming down che slope and crashing into a wall For his second-term inaurgural gala the Mayor of New and Iacer flown to a hospital. Asked co name the skier, York, Rudy Giuliani threw himself a party for 1,500 cele Rosenbloom could only chink of Th.. Godfather character brants that featu red his favorite movie, Tlu Godfotlm. A Luca Brasi co which the scaceside anchor responded, "Oh, month later, carrying his Mob obsession to Michigan for a you mean he sleeps wich che fishes?" This rime, there was an political fundraiser Hizzoner, broke into his now famous apology. Don Corleone routine during a speech co Middle Ameri Does anyone sec a pattern here? cans, jusc in case rhe wolverines haven't connected mobsters with Italian-Americans afrer 30 years of feature films. For- - RAI 8 FoRum op rhe PeopLe Cause for Pride by Robert Aliegrini l an1 also confident that if Americans same cannot be srud of large segments of Fam1Ly vaLues cir{f syllonymous were a lirde more Italian they would be our own countrymen. IVITIJ lrnluws nm) IT IS nwLy more passionate and more roleranr of Another paramount reason why America would benefit from an emulation of the Ital llllFON.nmnre rlwr r/Je sn()le amorous peccadillos. It is cerrrun.ly no coin cidence char the grearesr sex symbols of all ians is the lralian Dolce Vita mindseL Too cmmor he swv OF LnRtJe setJme/ITS time, from Romeo ro Valentino to Fabio, ofi:en we Americans (Americans of lralian have all been ltalian. descent included) are so focused on work OF Ol/R OIV/1 COWITI~_YOJE/1. But beyond these easily discernible iliat we neglect what is truly important in reasons why America would benefic from our lives: our friends and our family. italians Ar one point or anO£her, almost being more hilian lie several more complex have a fur greater appreciation of tl1is fact everyone who is seriously involved in ilie bur no less compelling reasons: which is reflected in everything &om ilieir Italian-American communiry has been The first of these reasons is rhat the Ital long meals and vacation schedules ro mcir queried as ro why he or she spends so much ians have a comparauvely lower incidence comparatively smaller incidence of work rjme, money and effon promoting Italian of many of the social woes char plague rclared suess. AJrhough hard work is a basic culrure and civilization. r'Or me, ilie answer America, among which are alcoholism, Iralian rrair, lralians know how ro enjoy co this question is extremely simple: I think child abuse and divorce. Can you even lheir leisure in simple ways. America would be a better place if only it imagine a nation that cherishes irs children Ooly rhe constraints of space preclude were more lrilian in character. as much as Iraly having so many incidents me from continuing ro exan1ine why While each and every American eilinic of child abuse as here? America would be a berrer place if it were group has made irs own valuable comribu As a second reason, I would submit the only a Hrde more lta.Han. Conversely, 1 musr rions to the culture of our magruficenr benefits derived from the nw-ruri.ng envi state, in all fairness, that there is jusr as country. l cannot help but believe that a ronment of the rypical Iralian family. l once much the Italians can learn and exrrapolare furrher extension of rhe values and virrut:S read an American guidebook on Italy thar from America to make Italy a berrer of iliose noble heirs of che Roman Empire stared rhar the ''definjng characteristic" of country. Foremost among mese iliillgs are a and the Renaissance would have a pro the Italian male was "an unnatural closeness greater sense of patriotism, civic pride and foundly beneficial effect on America. To to his mother." Unnatural ro whom? ecology. substantiate this seemingly chauvinistic Perhaps ro someone named Smith or Jones In the global marketplace of ideas there is claim an examination of the evidence is in bur cerrrunly to no one who bears a proud a great deal to be traded between lraly and order. lralian surname. The rrurh is that many America. T herefore, 1 hope t:bar the narional We begin with the obvious: non-Italian Americans in our country Italian-American community will emerge as If America were only a little more Italian would be far more socially well adjusted if enthusiastic brokers for all positive aspects we would all be berrer fed. Survey after they had the benefic of a close-knit lraljan of ilie magnificent Italian culture. survey now indicates chat Italian is the upbringing where the parents sacrificed world's favorire rype food. Narurally, we everything for their children's advancement would also be better dressed for Milan is and d1e bonds oflove run so deep that they rivaled. ooly by Paris as a capital of the actually appear "unnarural" ro those who Robert Allegrini fasruon world. were unfonunardy denied these bonds. In is cun·ently As a race, Americans would be more an era where even the American political Vice President musical, lese we forger iliar Iralian is ilie lefi: has admitted iliar Dan Quayle was right pro tempore of very language of music. Correspondingly, wich regard to family values, we must the !ttdic Studies we would also be more artistic: as acknowledge thar the Italians were right all Institute and UNESCO notes, more than 50 percent of along. Family values are synonymous with resides in the world's arc is found in Italy. ltilians and it is truly unforrunare that the Chicago. 9 Italian ·-an Radio WVrm, music that explain where we're going, where weve been by Bob Masullo eporting on Italian American radio always comes as a surprise to some. They find it hard to believe it exists, especially in this day and age. Yet there are Italian American radio programs on stations throughout the United States. What's more, they have been there virtually since Guglielmo Marconi invented the medium. lr is, however, unfortunately rrue, as Christopher Newton noted in the Winter 1996 issue of Italian Americana magazine, that Iralian American programs have had to work "as a minor partner in cooper ation with larger radio nerwork~; Italian Americans as an ethnic group have nor by and large gone our and acquired radio scarions and rhen with complete autonomy decided on the narure of the programming." Actually, rhe only other ethnic groups that have acquired srarions in significant numbers (ocher than WASPs, of course) are Hispanics and, ro a lesser exrcnr, African Americans. That's why there is no shorcage of Hispanic radio (and TV) in most pares of the United Stares, and African American radio has at least .1 foothold in most major metro politan markers. Ifone wonders why Italian Americans don'r ger a bener shake in the national media, this is one of d1e more important reasons why. Even at this late date our community could be well served if wearhly Italian Americans copied the Hispanic/African American models - pro John La Barca of Italian House Party. vided, of course, their l£alic consciences had been raised first. Despite the alien environment in which Italian American broad WICC (600 AM). Because of Bridgeport's geographicallocarion, the casters have had to work, they have been able to produce some radio show is able co reach nor only Connecticut's sizable Iea lie popul ation, progran1s of notable quality, many with considerable staying power but additional millions on New Yo rk's Long Island. and remarkably loyal followings. What is Italian American radio? A bridge between rwo culcurcs? An I know. I have been involved with one for 16 years: Festa ltnliana in effective means of communicating our concerns ro one another? A Sacramento, California, which airs Sundays from noon co I p.m. on way of reaching our ro other ethnic groups? A trip down an ethnic K]AY (1430 AM). memory lane? Admittedly, Sacramento does not leap to mind as a bastian of italo The truth is, it is al l of these and much more. ammCilnim; the way a San Franciso, Chicago, or, most certainly. New "In order to understand where we arc going, we have ro have a York docs. Bur Italics accounr for five pcrcenr of merropollran Sacra strong knowledge ofwhe re we came from," said La Barca, when asked memo's l.l million people - rhar's 55,000 souls, not counting to explai n his program. "My show, I hope, hel ps supply rhar knowl icalophilcs without 10 the rime ro master the ancestral tongue - Italian American Radio and inspire the rest of us. Conti!lued .from page 10 There are, however, still immigrant shows. New York and Chicago have many. Bur rhcy singing, dancing, telling jokes and recalling are nor nearly as well represented as they were plcasanr memories. Consequendy, in addi back in the '40s and '50s. At one rime, the tion to his own voice, listeners have often now sadly defunct New York station WOV heard his great aunt Mary, his mother broadcast all day, every day, in Italian. Mamie, and numerous other relatives and Ttna Conforti, to eire one host of a friends. It's also reflected in the music he present-day immigrant show, does her lt1tlin plays. Phyllis Cupparo and the author, radio hosts Ogg-i(Sundays, 10-11 a.m. on WCEV, 1450 Bur sandwiched berween rhe fun are of Festa Italians in Sacramento. AM, Chicago) entirely in lcalian. The only spoken scgmenrs designed w advance lcalic exception is when she has a non-Jralian involvment with the Italian Study Group of pride. For example, "Growing Up Italian," a speaking guest; during the 1996 presidential Troy, MI. She headed Oggi, a division of the L2-rninure recitation rhar reviews che unique campaign, for example, she interviewed borh group that specialized in the inreresrs of pleasures and pains of growing up Italian Bill Clinton and Robert Dole in English - Italian Americans in the 18- to 40-year-old American in the '40s, '50s and '60s, which he bur translated their remarks into Ttalian. bracket. recorded (with musical backing by The Cay Conforti, who has roots in Toscana and Ffsta ltaliana developed in a similar lords) and frequencly plays on his show. Campauia ("I'm a blend of i/ nord and ilsud" fashion. Borh Adamo and I were early Unlike many of the older lralian American she says proudly), sees her mission as "gerri~g members of the Italian Culwral Society of shows. which were immigrant run, aimed ar the news our to Iralians, who like me, are Sacramenro, which was organized in 1981. an immigrant audience and announced in living abroad." One of the organization's goals was to make Italian, La Barca's show is done in English. Lisa Bica Grodsky's Detroit area Radio ftal Italian Amcricam a more visible parr of the Says La Barca: ''I'm second gcnerar.ion. iarlll, that aired on both WCAR and WLLZ., greater Sacramento area. What better way to Like mosr Italian Americans, English is my was an example of a later-generation show. acnieve that, we reasoned, than a radio first language. When cl1e immigranrs came Past tense is used because the show is (as chis program? By the end of 1982 we were on rhe here and had children they formed a new is written) on hlarus; the 29-year-old Bica a1r. culrure - heavily Italian influenced, of Grodsky being pregnant with her first child. Lucia Galizia, an immigrant from Napoli, course, bur different from ltalian culture. She planned to go back on the air shortly ten years ago cook over Tlu Italian Hour (I O That's what I try to present, the new culrure. after giving birth on a yet to be determined l1 a.m. Sundays on KKEY, I 150 AM, in So I do the show in English with just a lirde starion. Porrlaod, OR), a program that was fow1ded bir of spoken Italian thrown in for flavoring." "It was mainly a Top 40 show," she said. "I in L948 by Agostino Podesro (which may On Fma ltaliallll we also do mosr played a few vinrage runes, a few lralian make ir the oldest, continuously-operated announcing in English, save for when John American numbers, bur mainly, rhe songs Italian American progam in the Unired Adamo, who co-founded the show with me were ones people were currently listening ro Stares). hosts ir (every six weeks or so). He likes r~ in lraly. I cried to keep riglu on top of rhe " It's somewhere in the middle," she said. demonstrate his Italian fluency. Bur that, roo, charts. I'd read Billbottrd every week." "We aim ar both immigrants and later gener- reflects the modern Italian American com Bica Grodsky's show grew our of her munity, a few of whose members have taken Continued on page 30 The Ultimate In Propeny Protection Securil'l :J..nc• s,6111m6 ..!J,c. CHAIN LINK AND WOOD FENCES FOR HOME AND INDUSTRY Razor Ribbon Specialists 4060 Boston Road Bronx, N.Y. 10475 718-231·2938 JERRY CAPANO Fax 718-994-8404 11 Imperial Italy by john Mancini mong the many misconceptions tZbout Ancient Rome is that this smtZf4 landlocked city on seven hills, on its own, managed to conquer the western world over a period of700 years and hold it for another 500 years. Think of the population it would have Roman Empire is because as Rome made needc..>d to field coundess legions over a mil irs poliricaJ alliances rhroughour the Italian lennium. Think of the logistical nighrmare peninsula it extended Roman citizenship ro Rome would have had merely to keep irs Italic cousin~. hence, lralians became "occupied" Italy pacilled for hundreds of "Romans". Oftentimes, rhe true Romans ye<~rs while che Bower of its manhood went referred ro themselves as Qttirites. (Even about conquering rhe "world." Look no roday, the President of Italy resides on the further rhan Athens or Sparta for a perfect Quirinal Hill in Rome.) Virgil, Ita.ly's poet cr example of the limicarions of a ciry-srate. laureate about the time of Christ, put it Greater Greece was neither a true empire very simply: the Roman Empire was the nor rhe creation of one city-state. result of "the power of Roman stock allied Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near to the valor of Italy." (Sit Romana po~ns 0 East in the name of Greek culture lasted a !tala vimlte propago.) mere 30 years. Neither the Greek home Unquestionably, the Romans used their land nor Macedonia's overseas possessions remai ned united any longer than rhe ImpeRwL lraLy unltzeo The Romans divided the unified homeland lifespan of Alexander. Was it po)Sible, then, Into eleven administrative regions closely coLomes Of ITaLtans TO resembling today's twenty regions. Sicily for one city in Italy ro accomplish what rhe and Sardinia were provinces. clever Greeks had failed ro achieve? pROjeCT lTS poweR. Once unified, Imperial Italy became the Italian cousins as cannon fodder over the cuuing edge of civilization. It was a new years but eventually there was a reckoning civilization, forged from the Greek culrure and it was then chat Europe's first nation as represented in southern Italy by the Hel state was born (See lt11ly's Civil Wzron page lenic colonies (Magna Graecia, Greater 19.) Greece, as the Romans called rhose coastal Although the old Romans liked to majn enclaves in Sicily and the peninsula), the tain the legend that they were descended Etruscan cuJrure of central Italy, ~md the from Trojans, they nevertheless admined Italic culture. Here was a new combination that their wandering Trojan antecedents of values: the Greek appreciation for art intermarried with the Italic natives. Larin, and the absrract, Etruscan humanism, and rhe language of ancient Rome, is acrually rhc: hard pragmarism and sense ofjuscice of classified as an Italic language related to the the IraJic people. Imperial lraly now old languages of lazio, Umbria, Abruz7.o, brought to the world stage new virtues that Spectator and betting sports were perfected Campania, and many orher Italian regions. would facilitate empire:. Rome was more by the ancient Italians. Here, a champion Bur sharing the same blood and language tolerant and less clannish than the Hellenic charioteer Is shown on a mosaic. do not guaranree unity. Unlike the individ ciry-starc:s. In rime, it allowed assimili:nion ualistic ancient Hellenes (Greeks) these ro all. And unlike empires elsewhere ir WHO WERE THE ROMANS? italic cousins eventually shared their citi- served irs subject peoples with a viral infra The Roman Empire was, more correctly, 7.enship rights and obligations in common. structure - roads, saniracion, and social an ltalo-Roman Empire. For Rome needed Iraly became the homeland of the Romans. services - and with the rule: of law. a nation to create irs empire. Alone, the As British historian Donald Dudley pur it, In the marrer of holding together a va.~r task was beyond irs manpower and "... by the time ofAugusms mm could speak of empire that covered the area of the United resources. The reason it is called the Rome and Italy I1J a unity." States and contained some 80 million 12 inhabitants of diverse ethnic and religious Ages can be rraced ro Imperial Italy. In the backgrounds, Lnperial Italy urilized arrs, ir wa~ Classical Italy char developed colonies of lcalians ro project its power. landscape painting, satire in lirerarure and "Wherever the Roman conquers, thae he realism in sculpture. Even rhe Madonna dwells." stared Seneca, himself born in ru1d Child rherne came from pre-Christian Spain oflralic lineage. But while the Greeks Italy when the nurturing female was known planted colonies rhar mirrored rhe region as the Earth Morher. Sayings rhar we now alism of their own ciry-sraces, rhe ancient take for granted came out of rhis period: All lralian colonies were made up of assimilated roads lead UJ Rome, Rome wasn't built in a army veterans rather chan transplanted day, Beware G'reeks bearing gifts, Home sweet regions. Julius Caesar established about 30 home, Love conquers aiL Quality not quan overseas colonies utilizing 80,000 halian tity, Not worth his saLt, No sooner said then veteran families. Augusrus proudly reponed done, Head over heels, Hail and forewe/1, rhar he had founded 75 colonies around the More brawn thmz bmin, Buyer bewan:, Mediterranean. The most famous and Beware the dog. fruitful of aiJ rhe ancient Italian colonies For rhosc who srand in awe of rhe diverse was genius of Italians roday and of rhe sixry gen in Spain. Ir was a new ciry called, logi The emperor was protected by the Praeto cally enough, lralica, and ir produced rwo rian Guard made up of Italians who were at erations that were produced since the fall of of rhe Empire's greatest emperors: Trajan least six foot tall. rhe wesrern Roman Empire - generations and Hadrian. if nor lraly? Would Judeo-Christian rhar produced composers, soldiers, scien Wirh colonies such as lta1ica came morality have been disseminated so thor rists, sainrs. engineers, explorers. busi Roman law and citizenship, nor ro mention oughly were there no Pax Romana (d1e 200 nessmen, athletes, authors, singers, and rhe magnificent building programs chat years of Roman Peace)? Judaism and Chris myriad Olher skills - should acknowledge lraly was famous for. Over rhe years, these tianity would probably still be mysterious rhc reason for it. Imperial Italy, in the overseas Italians would intermarry with the eastern cults had there not been rhe free natives or inaoduce them to the advantages travd and the unifying languages (Latin and Greek) of the empire. And, would Jralian humanism have been instilled in the savage breast of western Europe without the stability of Roman government and law? The Greek stares themselves might have been obliterated by the northern barbarians if Italic legions had not defended the Danube. Historian Will Durant summed Ara Pacls Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace). The symbol of Italian unity and up Rome's (Italy's) essential accomplish The Roman Forum was the center of law dominion. Long burled, It was unearthed In and government for the western world. ment: 1938 and now stands beside the Tiber River. ·: .. having won tht· Meditemwean world she adopted its culture, gave it order, pros course of five hundred years, attracted rhe of Italic civilization. So viral were these perity, and peace for 200 years, held btlck the finest talent of three continents ro irs lralian colonies that many still survive: tide of barbarism for two centuries more, and shores. Jusr as the United Stares. a beacon for universal migration, leads Lhe world in London, Budapest, Vienna, Beirut, Seville, transmitted tl1e classic heritage to the ~st Augsburg, Lyons, Istanbul. among others. before she died " numerous fields, the ancient Italian gene Bur whar of all the little things tl1at we pool was enriched with such ethnic diver OUR DEBT TO CLASSICAL ITALY now cake for granted rhar were bequeathed sity as was nor seen in the world umil Imagine a world without Rome and you ro us by Imperial Italy: the calendar, rhe America opened irs doors. will soon grasp the legacy of Imperial lraly Roman alphaber, tripartite government, the Without Imperial Iraly the so-called ro our modern world. Were we to reverse rule of law, construction technology, ciry "Italian genius" would probably not exisr. the course of history and allow Carthage ro planning, team sporrs and sports stadiums, defeat Rome rwo millenia before Christ, THE OTHER ITALY agricultural science (lralians planted the and were we ro allow the German hordes co first vineyards in ancient Gaul), the insau This is not ro say rhar £mperial Italy overrun GauJ, Spain and Italy at rhe time of didn't have irs dark side. T he carnage of the ments of capitalism: contract law, leuers of Christ, what sore of cornerstone would arena, pervasive slavery, and often brutal credit, risk insurruKe, usury laws, stock "western civilization" have today? Whar conquests were rruly pan of the whole issues, and banking. The foundation of nation would have been rhe bearer of rhe picture of ancient Italy. Movies like Italy's economic success during rhe Middle Ben am and sciences of the fragmented Greeks, Continued on pgae 15 13 MIM81R FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS aASSOCIATION FIREQUENCH INC ... FIRE ALARM • SMOKE DETECTION SYSTEMS "EARLY DETECTION IS THE BEST PROTECTION" 11 East 26 St. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10010 TEL. (212) 966-9100 FAX (212) 966·91 04 DESMOND J. BURKE Imperial Italy They were a particularly unpopular lot especially Omtinued.from page 13 among the entrepreneurial Greeks who had previ Hur, SpartaaJS, and The Robe defined the ously colonized the Near Roman Empire for the modern public as a East. These representatives crud pagan bloc on human history. Of of Roman authority course, this poim of view served me inter taught me Greeks how tO ests of larcer day dramatists. The ancient squeeze blood from Italians were, in fact, no worse than their stones. contemporaries in Europe. Africa, or me Ofremimes, as in Gaul, Near East. Julius Caesar was considered the desire for personal hwnanc by ancicm srandards because he glory and political power refrained from murdering women and chil was the motivation. The dren duru1g his conquest of Gaul. One has great Caesar even wrote only ro read the Bible to learn how d1e his commentaries on the Israelites annihilated Canaanite popula Gallic War ro further his tions. Similarily. the Greeks raped and pil reputation and political laged each other with fierce crudty. The base, writing them in me Carthaginians practiced child sacrifice co third person to make: Roman engineers scoffed at Egyptians and Greeks for their placate their gods. The Romans acrually rhem seem unbiased. "useless" memorials. They built aqueducts and roads, Instead. lcamed crucifixion from rhe Carthaginians In some cases, Rome (This aqueduct Is In France.) and gladiatOrial combal from the Etr was invited inro a foreign somewhar amazing ro consider rhar a mere uscans. Those who would judge harshly counrry to forestall a civil war. However, 30 legions (150,000 men) were under arms ancient Italy muse place mac judgemem in once invited in, rhe Romans rarely ro defend an empire char covered three me context of the times. depaned. Such was me case in Judea. Yer, conrinenrs. They were supplememcd with The Italic people came by their empire, rhe Romans took possession of Pergamum an equal number of local auxiliaries. Nev at first, for reasons of defense. Ancient in Turkey because they were named in the ertheless, this is aboU! 55% of today's U.S. Celts once occupied nonhero Iraly and in dying ruler's wi ll in 133 B.C. Army strength. 390 BC laid seige co the young ciry of Tolerance, equaliry, and participation Rome. The Imlic people needed the Alps as RUNNING AN EMPIRE were the secrets of Rome's success. Toler a Jefc::nsivc:: line:: and che con'luest of As the Emperor Augustus observed. ir is ance for local cuscoms and religions, northern Italy becan1e a necessiry for this noc quire as difficult m conquer an empire equaliry rhrough the granring of Italic, purpose. Likewise, the Hellenic cirics of as ro maintain one. ln rhis regard, Larin, or Roman righrs despite ethnic Magna Graecia feared the coarse Romans Augusms was the superior of Alexander. background (these bestowed various and called in their Creek cou.~ins ro keep The Macedoni:m's empire only lasted some degrees of cirizenshjp in me early empire these Italic upstarts in line. A Greek king 30 years, whereas lmperiallcaly, established but were later blended inro jusr Roman cit na111ed Pyrrhus invaded Italy and thrashed by Augusrus, lasted nearly 500 years, rwo izenship). President John f. Kennedy's feb the Romans in every barcle, losing so many hundred of which are known as the Pttx bin ein Berlinerwas a conscious paraphrase men in the process that the phrase "a Romana, the Roman Peace, when me of rhe ancient Cives Romanus Sum (I am a Pyrrhic victory" can1e into our lexicon. The empire of 80 million enjoyed rcla~ive Roman Citi7£n), a phrdSe which could end result was Rome's absorption of all peace. British hisrorian Gibbon said of mis release you from jail, stop rorcure, and southern Italy. However. ir was rhe Roman peace, prevem your crucifixion. Finally. participa aumor H orace who observed mar con "![a mt111 were called to fix the period i11 tion encompassed nor only political repre quered Greece took captive her CDrUJUb'Or. In the bis10ry of the world, during which tbe sentation in the Roman Senate and other words, Greek culrure seduced the condition ofthe human rtll.:e was most happy Assembly bur economic freedom char coarse Iralians. mul prosperous, he would, without hesit4rion, eventually enriched the provinces ar the And so it wenc Lhat in her own defense nttme that which elApsed from 96 A.D. to expense of the Italian economy. Italy confromed and vanquished one 180A.D." English hisrorian Ronald Syme has sug enemy afrer anomer. Then again, the Italic Once conquered rhe subject people gested rhar England mjghr have avoided people were also a covetous lot and the came ro understand me benefits of peace rhe American revolution had it copied need for gold, silver, slaves, and markets and cooperation. Except for rhe security Iraly's inclusion of provincials in governing pressed the legions on to greater conquestS. needs of the more recalcitrant provinces, the Empire. George Washington would With the conquests came the Italian busi Italy's legions were based along me fron have been a member of Parliament, Patrick nessmen and publicans (rax collecmrs). tiers, away from the pacified core. lc is Continued on pgoe 16 & u XXVIII, 1998 15 Imperial Italy Ttberius, Nero. and Caligula. It would be equivalcm ro Conti mud.from pagt 15 relying on conremporary author Seymour Hirst to be Henry would have been rhe governor of the final word on President Virginia, and Ben Franklin a member of Kennedy. Was there a CaliguJa the Royal Academy. On rhe other hand, it among the Egyptian pharoahs, might ~d that some historians believe be or a Nero among the emperors rhis generous participation by rhe provin of China? Surely there were, ciab led ro the social and economic degra but there was no free press in dation of Italy, which in rurn caused the those civilization~. So, we coUapse of the Empire. Maybe a conqueror mustn't think the Romans can be roo generous. moraUy inferior to anyone. With the economic boom throughout Even the persecution of rhe provinces came education for rhe Christians was not a constanr masses. The Romans developed public policy of imperial administra school systems, public libraries, and profes tions. ln fact, Christianity sional cerrificacions. Believe it or not, thrived under Italic dominion. England under Roman rule had a higher As numbers go, who could say me of literacy than any British govern if more innocent Christians ment for the nexr 14 centuries! That is were murdered during the according to author T. R. Reid who quoted Roman Empire or during the historian Peter Salway. English Inquisition and Reformation? Unquestionably, Imperial ACCESSING IMPERIAL ITALY lraly established Western Civi The Baths of Caracalla In Rome became Clearly, we know more abom rhe ancienr lization - that unique blend many American train terminals. The ancient Italians con· Italians and their subjectS than any other of G reek thought. Italic quered "space" with their domes and arches. people of the distant past. More informa humanism, and Judea-Chris- tion was disseminated in chose years and things did not happen of their own accord. tian morality - in the time it ruled the more has come down to us rhan any other And because Italians colonized much of west. It inculcated a reverence for law, an ancient civili1.ations. Unformnately, the rhe western world, most of us, nor only appreciation for peace, and the concept high rare ofliteracy lhroughour the Empire roday's Iralic people, can claim a direct link that government serves the people. The gave even the gossip mongers a wide audi with Imperial Italy. Irs contributions have Romans builr roads nor monumentS, aque ence, and this before rhe invention of the touched, in one way or another, al l six ducts not pyramids. By surviving as long as priming press! Much of our "din" on inhabited cominenrs and provide us with a it did and by developing the bone and Rome and irs ruling clas.~ came from ques framework for global unity. Ave !talia sinew of a capitalist empire, Imperial Italy tionable authors like Suetonius whose Lives vctt7e!"' preserved the mechanisms that would of the 7ivelve Ctmars freely explored the energize the commerce of lhc Middle Ages private affairs of marginal emperors like (•Hail ancient Italy!) and later inspire the Renaissance. For these CHARLES RIZZO & ASSOCIATE BUILDING AND ZONING LAW CONSULTANTS ELEVEN PENNSYLVANIA PLAZA I NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10001-2091 (212) 695-5980 FAX (21 2) 695-6058 CHARLES RIZZO STUART KLEIN, ESQ. SALVATORE J. COCOLICCHIO GENERAL COUNSEL 16 Giovanni Schiavo Father ofItalian-American History by Adolfo Caso years of his life he was raised and edu // .. .IraLlan-Ame R. zcan cated in the highest Italian ideals. It pre pared him bener than rhe vast majority l)LVe oRc.;amzanons OIOn'r of immigams to preserve and nurture a pLw;l}eO the remarkable civilization that was me mckeL." Iraly. In his waning years, Giovanni Schiavo Arriving in America in 1916, he did nor hide his bitterness coward rhe arrended Johns Hopkins University. community to which he had devoted a New York University, and Columbia. Antonio Meucci, Inventor of the Tele He was awarded four scholarships by lifetime of research and study. Were it phone, a work that shows precision of not for his relentless pursuit ofhisrorical joh ns Hopkins and a Gilder fellowsh ip research and editorial courage in rrurh, rhe Italian-American past would by Columbia, the latter enabling him to bringing our the facts surrounding the be a mere confirmation of Hollywood's study international law and relarions in legitimacy of Meucci as che inventor of d isrorred images. He single-handedly Europe. the telephone; The Truth About the preserved our rich and varied berirage While in New York, and later in Mafia and Organized Crime in America, here in America and for this alont: he Texas, he authored The Italians in a work that showed how the I tali an deserves our undying gratitude. Chicago, Tbr Italians in America Before Americans are wilfully stigmatized by rhe media when, in face, they had an Born in Casrellamare (Trapani, Sicily) the Civil War. and two volumes of overall lower crime rate than rhar of in 1898, Schiavo grew up in rhe mold of ltaiian-Americrm History. His major other ethnic groups. He also completed fellow Sicilians Luigi Pirandcllo and Sal accomplishmems were ro come in the the Dictionary for Trttvelers, in eight lan vatore Quasimodo, borh Nobel Prize following works: What Crime Statistics guages, and the ltalirm-American Whos winners, bur Schiavo never received a Show About the Italians; The Scientific Who which has seen twenty editions. prize of any kind. Yet, if it weren't for Achievements of Leonardo da Vinci; his him, Americans of Italian descent masterpiece, Four Centuries of Italian Notwithstanding his love of research, would today lack rhe foundation of a American History (which went into five bound co a strong sense of personal vin great heritage. For rhe first eighteen editions while he was alive); his ground dication for his forgotten and down- breaking and controversial volume, Continued on page 21 Future Issues of The Italic IDly The Italian Monarchy - It's Past and It's Future Other Lives - Some Interesting Hobbies Italian Debt - What Italy Owes Italian-Americans ~ H xxvrn, 1998 17 ~.. w Maintenance: A.C.E.'s experienced staff has developed the "Pro Tech" preventative maintenance program to fix your elevator problems before they become problems. We'll keep your elevators in top condition with a custom1zed maintenance package that's cost effective, sate and dependable. Modernization: Cutting edge technology and customized service make A.C.E. the right company to upgrade or retrofit your current elevators and escalators. Innovative engineering and expert planning allow our dedicated staff to keep your people movers up to date and affordable. 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From rhe founding of the Eternal They formed an outer orbit around the growth of Rome, sharing in rhe Cicy on April 21st, 753 B.C., the more fu lly privileged Latin tribes. common dangers and viccories and Romans were in almosr constant playing an ever increasing role in struggle with their fellow italic people Rome very wisely allowed the vast Rome's military can1paigns. The loyal and r.he ELruscans, borh natives of the majority of the Italic people the right to and heroic participation of these Italian peninsula. They, and rhc Greek colonies keep their own constitutions and deer allies in the defensive wars against Han of the south and r.he invading CelLs of their own magistrates. They were per nibal, Greeks, Celr:s, and Germans m the norrh stood in the way of a Roman mitred co worship their own gods and the years before Christ was critical to ltaly. could enrcr inro contracts and even Rome's vicrories and Italy's survival. marry with Roman citizens. They were Wirh rhe defear of rhe invading Greek not required to pay any tribure to For years the Italian allies had strived king Pyrrhus and his mercenary army in Rome. They were, however, obligated ro to achieve equal rrearmcm and fulJ 275 B.C., the fate of rhe Hellenic supply men to rhe Roman army and Roman citizenship as a reward for their colonies in southern [raly (collectively loyalty. Roman reformers such as called Magna Craecia - Greater Greece) Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Gaius and was sealed. Rome reigned supreme in The ITaLzan aLLzes Tibcrius Gracchus and Lucius Sacurn three-quarrers of Italy. lt had established inus had held out hope for this an interlocking network of alliances in To prospect, however, each rime promises her dealings with the various Iralic p"Roveo he of reform and eager expectations ended peoples that surrounded che Greek in bitter disappointment. colonies. A small number, like some of CRUCiaL TO The con the L·tti n tribes and the Sabines who ''The beasts ofthe field and the birds of inhabited me region of Latium, around the air have their holes dnd hiding plAces; Rome, were granted full Roman citizen TinueD SURVIVaL ano but the men who fight and die for italy ship. Ochers in central and sourh Italy, enjoy only the light and the dir. ... You are including the Samnites, Aequi, Volsci qRowrh op Rome called masters ofthe world. but there is not and Umbrians, were given a sort of half a foot ofground that you can cdL/ your citizenship without me right to vote or own." -Tiberius Gracchus, 133 B.C. hold office in Rome. The submissive had r.he ducy of serving in Roman wars. Cruelly, the Roman aristocracy Greek cities of the south became allied It was an arrangement rhar was aston refused to give serious consideration to states. Collectively, aU of the additions ishingly enlightened for the ancienc any proposal involving the expansion of co rhe Roman confederacy became world. The Italian allies proved co be full citizenship. Tensions increased in known as "Italian allies" or "socii Italici.,. crucial to the continued survival and 126 B.C. with the passage of a law 19 which forbade the inhabitants of me The Romans now faced a formidable Roman citizenship to all individual Iral Italian rowns ro migrate ro Rome. A coalition of kindred peoples who had ians who abandoned the revolt and pre decree of 95 B.C. even expelled all resi~ foughr side by side with rhem in many sented themselves to a Roman praeror dentS of the capital whose citizenship past wars and were a match for them in within sixty days. Finally, the Lex was merely IraLan bur nor Roman. The training, structure and discipline. Ironi Calpumia gave Roman magistrates in just claims of Rome's allies could not be calJy, the main challenge was to come the field the power ro confer citizenship denied much longer without the threat from an area which had been the mosr upon all willing recipients. of an explosive conflict. difficult for Rome ro subjugate centuries earlier; namely; the mountainous central It was this series of concessions, rather Evenrs reached a climax in 91 B.C than military might, which turned the region, whose inhabitants were the mosr during the tribuneship of Marcus Livius tide against rhc Italian allies. This tenacious fighters in the whole penin~ Drusus who gallantly rook up the cause sudden offer of citizenship and rhe suJa. The Italians were commanded by full of reform. He proposed ro divide addi~ franch ise granted the Italians their chief seasoned officers who had received their cional stare lands among the poor, ro war aims. fr proved ro be an extremely training under Gaius Marius during the restore exclusive jury rights ro rhe war against rhe Germanic Cimbri and successful policy which greatly dimin Senate, ro add 300 equites, or knights, ro Teutones. In the face of this exrreme ished the vigor of the rebellion. In fact, the Senate, and most importanrly, ro danger, the Romans acted with charac by the end of 89 B.C., the Samnires and confer full Roman citizenship upon all Lucanians stood alone their con teristic vigor. Both consuls (Republican in the freemen of Italy. Before Drusus tinued hosriliry rowards Rome. Brilliant Rome's dual p residents) rook the field could achieve the passage of his reform with five legates (generals) each, among campaigns by Sulla in Samnium suc program, he was scabbed to death by an rhem the renowned Gaius Marius and ceeded in containing this threat and unknown assassin. His murder con Cornelius Sulla. forcing the insurgents ro assume an vinced the Italians that the Roman aris~ entirely defensive strategy. In rhe end, rocracy would never peacefully consenr Nonetheless, rhe flCSr year's campaigns only the Samnires, under the leadership to share itS privileges and was the proxi~ began disastrously, wirh rhe Romans suf of the brave Pontius Telesinus (probably mare cause for the outbreak of hosrili ~ fering defeats in central Italy at the an ancestor of Pontius Pilate) fought on Lies. The Italian people would gain rheir hands of rhe Sabellians and Samnites. until meir defeat in 88 B.C. rights of equal rreatmenr as fu!J citizens Unfortunately for che lralian confed In the three years of birter civil war, only through war. eracy, although it was very strong in there were three hundred thousand casu fighting spirit, it was short on resources. The rugged people of the: highlancb of By the end of rhe year, the Romans suc altie:;, a.11J mul.h of l.t"lltnJ Italy was Jev~ central and southern Italy rose up in astared. Roman citizenship had been ceeded in stabilizing the military s i ma~ revoir, among them rhe Marsi, the cion with victories in rhe north, in Cam justly extended to me Italians at a terrible Paeligru, the Sarnnires and the Luca pania and especially against the Marsi. and unnecessary price. Rome had won nians. The Latin coloni~ of Etruria and rhe war, bur Italy had won rhe peace. The lralians' strength remained Umbria, however, refused ro join. An unbroken, however, and with rumblings Italian Confederacy was formed with its '1toly had become 11 single body politic of disconrenr among rhe loyal allies and capital at Corfinium, proudly renamed which at the end of the first century, was a depleted treasury, the Romans decided ltalica, in the modern Abruzzo. A con distinct from the rest ofthe world " that it would be wise to pursue a policy srirurion was drafred similar ro Rome's of compromise in order ro check the - Prof. Jean-Michel David (University of with a Senate of five hundred, an spread of the rebellion and ro divide Srrasbourg, France) Assembly and a magistracy under which their enemies. Towards rhe end of rhc aiJ Italians were to be citizens. A delega~ The nation~s rare of lraly was forged, year 90 B.C., the Roman Senate passed cion was prompcly scnr ro Rome co which proved by irs valor, patriotism and the Julian Law (Lex julia), by which full present their demands; however, the morale co be a force superior to any citizenship was granted to the Etruscans, Senate refused ro grant a hearing. A other scare in the world. The natural Umbrians and any other lcalians who bloody and desperate civil war soon result of this was the conrinued and dra fol~ had remained loyal. Citizenship was lowed. In Larin, ir was called Bellum matic expansion of rhe Roman Empire then offered co all Italian communities Sociale, which meanr War of the Allies and the defeat of all irs enemies over Lhe which had participated in the war (Eng. "associates") but il has been trans next rhree centuries. against Rome and agreed co lay down lated rather too literally as the Social their arms. This was supplemented by For rhe fralic people, 111 unity there War. the Lex Plautia Papiria which extended was uuly srrengrh. 20 Giovanni Schiavo Continutd ftom pagt 17 Wisconsin, and Minnesota - the poor, became rhe first saint of the trodden immigrant brethren, Giovanni largest plor of land in rhe history of the United Stares. remained active in his communicy as world acquired through a single battle; well. He was a Professor of Law and rhar Captain Giovanni Malaspina laid Giovanni Schiavo's compendium is SociaJ Science and a member of the plans for the excavation of the Panama replete with names, activities, and LegaJ Consultancy Office of Baltimore's Canal, and measured the height of stories needed ro be bercer known nor First Legislarive District. He wrote for Mounr Saint Elias in Alaska, exploring only by Italian Americans in particular che BaLtimore Sun, for The New .l'Ork the gigantic glaciers later named for bur by other Americans as well. HeraLd Tribune, for the 1tal ian-American him; that Giacomo Beltrami was among As a historiographer, Giovanni periodicals Domenica lLlustrata, and the first to explore the source of the Schiavo is to Italian-American history Atlantica Magazine. He was also the Mississippi; mar Samuel Mazzucchelli what Herodotus was ro che early Greek founder of tht> Vigo Publishing House was the real Father Kelly, the one who world, what Tacitus was ro the world of (named after Francis Joseph Vigo, founded rhe Order of the Dominican the early Romans, what Villani and whose financial and military help make Compagni were to the world of the possible the conquest of the Northwest merging Italian republics and cicy stares. Terdrory during the Revolution). As a WlnLe orheR eT1mzc gRoups Schiavo might be considered the father contribuwr co the Encyclopedia Ameri of Italian-American history, having cana, Schiavo included the roJes of OJUST ReCReaTe Then~ pasT written the only comprehensive history many Italians who participated in the of a people who have yet to appreciare building of America. wzrh lOJae]znaTzon ano rbe rich heritage of their forefathers. For instance, if it weren't for him, we bLusreR, we have achzeveo Like Christopher Columbus, who would not know that Salvatore Cata died in almost complete oblivion lano was made pilar of "Old Ironsides" wzT]J szmpLe Facrs . OuR despite his magnificent achievements, - the U.S.S. Consdcurion during the Giovanni Schiavo passed on in much war with the Barbary Pirares; rhar pR.IOe anO CJROWTh as a the same way. In the few months before Marco Da Nizza founded Phoenix, his death, Schiavo rried to place his Arizona; that Father Francesco Chino CJReaT peopLe zs onLy a research material with some midwest founded more than 30 churches and maTTeR. OF Reaoznq institution of higher learning ro be used missions in California alone on behaJf by future scholars. Luckily for the of the Spaniards; that Enrico Tonri Schzavo. Italian-Americans, he placed his coJiec explored Lake Erie, the Mississippi, and tions with Joseph Maselli, in New the Niagara region, establishing colonies Orleans, Louisiana, where they are in areas of Louisiana and Illinois on Sisters and designed Iowa's Capitol available for researchers. As of this dare, behalf of rhe French; that Filippo Building; that Eugenio - Eugene however, very lirde attention has been Mazzei was an active participant with Verromile was among the first to study given to rhar body of material. Thomas Jefferson on behalf of che the languages of the Abenaki and the Giovanni Schiavo's Four Centuries of American Revolution; char William Penobscot Indians; char if it weren't for Italian-American History should be in Paca (PAY-cah) was rhe only non Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the Metropol every library in America as well as in Anglo-Saxon to sign the Declaration of itan Museum's first director, America Independence; that Joseph Vigo (absent would not have the vast collection of every Italian-American home. While other ethnic groups must recreate rheir in the telling of the story of the North Cypriot antiquities, which achieved for past wirh imagination and bluster, we west Territory conquest) placed himself it international status; that Rear have achieved it with simple faces. Our at the service of General George Rogers Admiral Bancroft Gherardi saw service pride and growth as a great people is Clark in waging war against the British, on many warships, including the Pen wherein Vigo, by urging Clark to only a matter of reading Schiavo. sncoia and the Lanct~st~r, flagships of the launch a mid-winter attack on Fort Vin North Pacific Squadron and of the To know where you are going you cennes and by keeping the Indians European Station; and - oh, yes! of must know where you have been. neutral, contributed ro the American Maria Cabrini, who, in establishing acquisition of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, dozens of churches and hospitals for the •••• 21 The Italian Navy Today by Greg01y Carrubba Aircraft Carrier, Giuseppe Garibaldi The maritime traditions ofI taly may date to the First Punic Ular (264 - 241 B. C.) when the Romans and their Italian allies first created a navy ofmulti-o ared warships to destroy Carthaginian seapower and wrest Sicily and Sardinia from that African state. Their first naval victory was offM ilazzo, Sicily, about 260 BC. And, of course, rhe Venetian Empire was of radar and fuel, and in spice of faulty Black seas. built upon seapower lasting from rhe Middle German codes char were cracked by the Beyond a purely military scope, rhe Ages through the Renaissance. Brirish Ultra code-breakers, rhe Iralian Navy Italian navy has readily participated in From irs origins as rhe Regia Marina successfully contested the Mediterranean peacekeeping and humanitarian missions (Royal Iralian Navy) in 1861, and wirh the Sea, supplying Iralo-Gcrman forces in Africa across the world. Notable relief operations exception of the years immediately fol for three years until the Americans can1e to have included assisting earmquake victims lowing World War II, the Italian navy has Britain's aid. in Morocco (1960) and Beliu: ( 1968), as consistently ranked among the Top Ten of After the creation of NATO in 1949, the well as rhe dispatching of rhe cruisers Vit the world's largest and best equipped forces. severe posr~war military limitation~ imposed torio Veneto and Andrea Doria and rhe trans ln siu:, it ranks slightly smaller d1an Britain's on Italy by d1e United Nations were gradu port ship Stromboli co rhe Sourh China Sea bur larger than Germany's with 67 ships and ally relaxed, and me Italian Navy, in a State in 1979 to rescue Viernamese refugees. 42,000 acrive men. Naval caders are rrained of ambiguity since the 1943 Armistice, was Thar same year, rhc lralian Navy at the Naval Academy in Livorno permirred to rebuild irselr under a three responded co United Nations' peacekeeping (Leghorn), founded in 1881. poim mission sratemem. Irs purposes, (I) co efforts in che Middle Ease by assisting in the During rhe First World War, the Italian provide surveillance over irs national rerri evacuation of civilians from Beirut and Navy pioneered the small offensive craft rory, {2) ro protect Italian interests abroad raking parr in mine sweeping operations in technology such as PT (Patrol-Torpedo) and to contribute to international security rhc Gulf of Aqaba (the Red Sea). Boars and E (Explosive)-Boars. Newsreels of in times of crisis, and (3) to defend Italy and Twenty ships of ilie 18ili Italian Naval the rime captured the sinking and capsizing, irs al lies against foreign aggression, have Group were senr ro the Persian Gulf to safe with all hands aboard, of rhe Austrian bat remained unaltered as ir conrioues co rescore guard commercial shipping upon eruprion tleship Viribus Unitis by a daring Italian PT irs srrengrh and prestige. of rhe lraq-Lran conflict in 1987-88, and boar. Under irs NATO obligations of the pose~ rwo years Iacer, the 20th Naval Group The Second World War was me &girr war decades, the Italian navy's primary focus patrolled rhe Gulf ro help enforce the Marimt's greatest challenge. Despite a deficit was ro help keep the USSR's Mediterranean United Nations-imposed rrade embargo on fleet in check. Though the Iraq. Italian frigates and minesweepers were Soviet threat dissolved in also inregrared inro rhe mulri-narional ilie early 1990's, the lralian forces of ilie subsequenr Desert Shield and navy continues ro rake the Desen Storm operations. commanding role 10 The 1992-95 peacekeeping efforts in NATO's NAYSOUTH Somalia, Iraly's former African colony, arm, responsible for the developed into rhe lralian Navy's largest and protection of shipping, longest overseas mission since rhe Second communications and all World War. This was soon fo!Jowed up by oilier Western interests in extensive patrolling of the Adriatic during the Mediterranean and ilie Bosnia and Albania peacekeeping mis sions under NATO and the United Narions, Cruiser, Vinorio Veneto 22 The Italic Way respectively. Among the Jcalian Navy's special purpose sccrions is rhe 1,400-man San Marco Battalion. Created in 191 7, rhis superbly-trained marine landing unit won universal anemion and praise for irs excellent perfor mance as pan of the multi-narional peacekeeping force in Lebanon from 1982 ro 1984. Composing another group of elite specialists are the lncursori Subac quei ("underwater attackers"), expert frogmen with an extensive range of supplementary training in such varied areas as survival, weapons, hand-to-hand combat and even mountain climbing. With irs primary wartime purposes of atLacking ships at anchorage and performing sub l>Urface reconnaissance, this unir is rhe direct descendenr of rhe famous Tenth Light Flotilla which wreaked so much havoc on Allied ships in rhe Mediterranean and Black Sea during World War [1. Frigate, Lupo Although clearly capable of an offensive mission, lraly sees irs navy in a humanirarian and peacekeeping role. A~ such, ir projects rhe nation's global presence. (Foomote: lronic.1lly, ir was fear of t:he Italian Navy that led the United Scares to embark upon irs modern fleer-building in the early 1890's. Ar the rime of t:he mass lynching of Tralians in New Orleans by a mob (1891 ), Italy had a fleer of 22 modern seed ships, including dread noughts and cruisers. In che tense international aftermath of rhe lynching, some American newspapers and lobbyists fanned the fear of foreign navies to push rhe United Srares inro a naval armaments race. Ar the rime, the United Stares Navy had only one steel bardcship. Had rhe Unired Scares nor used Italy as a prerexr, a modern navy might have been delayed for years and imperialist adventures like the Spanish Americ.1n War might never have taken place.) 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Reid paid our wOJu) mapa w1nc1J stucco, terracotta, terrazzo, cement, aque ancestors the best compliment in this duct, dome, and arch pay homage to one senrence: "The enduring Roman ORI')l11aLLy was all oLo haly's design and engineering skills over influence is reflected pervasively in con rhe cemuries. temporary language, literature, legal ARaHlC woRO (mu' aFalJ = In the sciences the Italians have passed codes, governmen t, architecrure, medi pROTI!CTl011) useu TO on their invaluable achievements wirh cine, sporrs, an s, engi neering, ere." such words as volts, galvanize, lava, Every word in that sentence is derived oesc](zke slmkeoown volcano, zero (deri ved from an Arabic from Larin except the word "rhe". kanozrs m Src1Ly. word) malaria ("bad air"), quarantine (a The rragic death of Lady Diana last 40-day isolation period), and fallopian summer brought home another fu.cct of all Latin or Italian words which have tubes (from scientist Gabriele Fallopio). the Ltalic conrriburion to our vocabulary retained their meanings. There are many more anatomical nan1es - paparazzi - a word introduced ro us derived from rhe lralian scienrisrs who through the movie La Dolce Vita (The identified them but r will spare you the Sweet Life). Paparazzo was a character in derails. that movie, an annoying photographer Of course, the world of food most who represented the worst in tabloid definitely has an Italian imprint. Italians journalism. Indeed, there are numerous have had the most fun in rhis area. such words we take for granted rhat have Unlike, say, the Chinese, who idemify been borrowed from Italian. Some have food names with the grand scheme of retained their original meaning and the universe Harmonious Family, others have been misused to fill gaps in Dragon Shrimp, etc., Iralians loved to the English language. nickname their favo rite dishes The best applied Italian words can be metaphorically: spaghetti (lirrle strings), found in the realm of music under linguine (lircle tongues), vermicelli (liccle standably because music, as we know it, worms), polio scarp,zriello (shoemaker's is predominantly an Italic development. chicken). Farm crops such as broccoli Do re me, adagio, stanza, a capella, and zucchini were developed by Italians. allegro, solo, piano, opera, tempo, aria, And let's not forget char "baloney" is Italian anatomists first identified many parts falsetto, arpeggio, primadonna, ballerina, of the body. The fallopian tubes were named speUed bologna after irs city of origin. staccato, cello, violin, trombone, tuba are after Gabriele Falloplo, who also Invented Dining a/ .fresco sipping a martini or the first condom (cloth) around 1547. 25 eating tutti fomi ice cream all nave an inro a generic word for criminal gangs ~·;~ / ~:I ~r •.. ·' Iralian origin. (Martini & Rossi Ver throughout the world. Unfortunately, .... . • BOLOCi\.\ mouth was a favorite ingredient in an rhe lralian sound of the word retajns a "" ' , • 1 ,', ' .~ : ~ ~ ~ \J I • I , 1. Englishman's gin cocktail.) negative connotation coward Italic Few question the spelling of " baloney." people. Likewise, fascisrn is an alternate Tnere are many Iralian words rhar socio-economic form of government pepper our vocabulary and sometimes (between capitalism and communjsm) Romance came to be used to describe have surpnsmg ongms: vendetta pur into practice, bur wa~ Still evolving, icalianization. A more proper description (revenge), fiasco (a straw-covered borcle), in Italy by the political thinkers Mus of our neighbors to the sourh would be imbroglio (a mess), pistol (tne first solini, Gentile, and D'Annunzio. Over Ibero-Americans since the Portuguese handgun named after its cicy of origin, the years this term has been used ro and Spanish colonists hailed from the Pistoia), motto (a word or saying), ballot describe Hitler's racist National Socialism Iberian peninsula. Likewise, Latinos (from pal/one, the black and wrute balls and many other governmenrs rhar need would more accurately be called His used in voting. eg., to black ball some only be called dlcrarorshlps. Macchi.avel panics or mestizos (In face, Hispanics cel one), cameo (the snell brooches from linn has come down to us as an amoral ebrate the mix of Iberian and indian Naples), regatta (boat race), Monticello political philosophy, yet Niccolo Macchi races on our ColUlllbus Day as El Dia de {little hill, Jefferson's home), confetti avelli's theories and observations on rhe Ia Razn - The Day of rhe [New] Race). (sugar-coated almonds), studio, inferno ancient Roman political system are a cor Supporting this argument is rhe newly (heU), credenza (side table), infantry ( nerstone of republicanism in the United instituted !hero-American Summit infante = yourh), colonel(" colonello", an States. Adams, Jefferson, Madison and which is attended by all the nations of old Italian military rank is pronounced, Franklin all srudied Macchiavelli. Central and South America as well as oddly enough, "kernel" in English), their rwo mother countries Spain and influenza, ghetto ( an island in rhe Venice On a grander scale, rhe word l.atin as in PorrugaJ. Finally, someone down there is lagoon), and Romeo (to describe a lover). Larin America or Latino is a perfect getting the point! example of excessive license. In its pure Bur rhcrc are some Italian words that form a Larin is someone who comes from Maybe we cannot change the way have been misused extensively. Take, for rhe region of Latium (Lazio) around Italian is misused bur we can take example the word mafia which originally Rome. Because of Lhe Roman Empire, immense pride in the magnificent influ was an old Arabic word (mr/afoh = pro when Italic civilization was introduced ence our ancestors have had on the lan tection) used to describe shakedown inro Europe. the words Larin and guages of the world. bandits in Sicily. Mafia has 110w evolved r------, I I ! 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After more than 60 years of interna Norrhern League (/.£gn Nord)in the fall tional obscurity, the Italians arc finally of 1996, rhc normally fractious Italians flexing their diplomaric muscles and rallied ro rhe cause of unity in unchar beginning ro live up to rhe standards of acteristic fasruon. their ancient forebears. Modern Italy's Luciano Violante, the Prcsidcnc of the re-emergence as a major player in world Chamber of Deputies, w:u. unequ1vocal affairs has been a long rime coming. As in scaring char Iraly would usc any rhe world's fifth mosr powerful indus means possible, including force, if faced trial democracy, Italy i~ poised co wirh ourrighr secession. Gianfranco assume irs rightful place among rhe Fini, head of rhe right-wing All~tmuz nation!-. Nnzionok (National Alliance), joined Italian president Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Is the first Italian head of state to journey to his leftist colleague in sternly rebuking Ethiopia since the 1930's. Bossi. Speaking ex cnthl'drn, and as a son ITaLy wzLL no LongeR of Piemonre and Calabria, rhe President bial rainy day. Italy's official household of Iraly, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, under savings rare averaged I 7.3% in the la.~t scored rhe indivisibility of che Italian decade-more than triple the U.S. rare seRve as an Republic as written in Article Five of the and well above Japan's 14.9% and Italian Constitution. Prime Minister Germany's 12.5%. As of rhe laresr rhree AmeRican Romano Prodi scorned :my questions of months up ro November 1997, Italy's national unity as unfit for discussion. COP (Cross Domestic Product) rose Even Pope John Paul II inveighed 6.7%. That of the United States for the appenoage oR againsr the sneertng Leghisti (i.e., l..c<\guc ~arne period increased by 3.6o/o. Italian members) who seek to de.\troy haly's high school smdenrs routinely omper NATO's seRviLe ancienr parrimony. Ironically, ir was the f<>rm rhcir American counterparts in Pontifex Ma.ximus, a Pole, who ddivercd math and science. Yet Italian unemploy the most eloquent expression of the ment, panicularly in the sourh, runs Italian people's common two-thou!>and high. The national average for the year culrure. \econd quarrcr of 1997 remains a stub born 12.8%. Stili, the Bank of Italy Italy is a prosperous paradox. The Ironically, this new Italian resolve may repons rhar the average family income average Italian earns more chan rhe have been sparked by the ranrings of a in the Mezzogiorno {Italy's south) is average Briton. lraly boasts the world's madman. $19.500. England's average family highest household savings rare and one income stands ar $18,700. Per capira Faced with the;: se;:vere secessionist of Europe's most impressive growrh COP in the province of Brescia is threat of Umbcno Bossi and his upstart races. Italians truly save for rhe prover- Continu~d on pttgr 28 27 Italy's Global Role company {Sara). In Per Capita Income addition co its stare-of Continued ftom page 27 South of Italy - United Kingdom the art facilities and reliance on perfor 25r~====------, $33,000, far above rhe average in mance-related bonuses, Switzerland, Germany or the U.S. Melfi's Sara worker our What's more, Mayor Antonio Bassolino performs the average of Naples has outperformed New York European worker by Ciry's Rudy Giuliani by rescori ng turning our 79 cars per Naples to a gem of the Mediterranean. year as opposed to rhe Crime has decreased by 25%, rourism conrinenr's average of has increased 40% and the srreers sport below 50. At Fiat's sophisticated cafes and chic cenrers of Melfi plant, efficiency fashion. Mosdy gone are the servile is truly job #1. signposts of the Spanish Bourbon occu pation: laundry sprouting from bal The lira's 25% depre conjes and chaotic street scenes. Naples' ciation in 1994 made Teauo San Carlo is Italy's largest opera Italian goods more house. Further ro the south, there are competitive 111 the indications that new enterprises are global marketplace, cre U.K. South of Italy being formed daily. According to New ating a favorable $18,700 $19,500 Yo rk Governor George Pataki, who balance of trade. In American newspapers like to call southern Italy "hard journeyed to his maternal grand facr, Italy has a bigger scrabble."' The figures don't quite bear that out. Free health mother's ancestral home, rhe region of trade surplus {$37.5 care and university education are also part of the "hard· Calabria is "flourishing." As a resuJr the billion) relative ro GOP scrabble" existence. Governor signed important trade and than Switzerland, The lralians have come a long way technology agreements with the region. Canada, France, Germany and Japan. For all their vaunted Anglo-Saxon ulrra since the humbling days of Paisan, Open All across the board, Italy's vibranr capiralism, the United Stares and City and The Bicycle Thief, when a pros economy is humming. Oliverri has shed Britain report record trade deficits. And trate Italy was reduced to a vassal srate, irs bulky mainframe idenriry and is Italy's bloated budget deficit, once a partly dependent on Marshall Plan aid diversifying inro cellular relephones. national embarassmenr, has been more and immigrant care packages. In return, Benetron and Versace lead the world of than halved by Prime Minister Prodi. as a stawart panner in rhe anci-Sovier fashion in sales as well as sryle. Fiat and lraly has now qualified for the opening alliance, Italy permitted an unfettered Pi relli are prospering after years in the round of the common European cur American military presence on its soil. red. And Parmalat is rapidly becoming rency. Adroit political maneuvering and Naples anchored the S.ixth Fleet; U.S. ''rhe Coca Cola of milk," conquering curs i11 the overextended public sector airbases dotted the country; and company after company in South by the Prodi government enabled the Crotone (in Calabria) welcomed Uncle America. Upstart Aprilia, a small Italians to bring their deficit to well Sam's missiles when the Spanish said motorcyde and scooter concern, has within d1e draconian Maastricht guide "Yankee go home.'' doubled sales and ourput berween 1992 lines without resorting to the creacive Yec, rhe resilience of the Italian spirit and 1994. In Calabria, the city of Gioia accounting techniques that were eventually produced an economic Tauro has emerged as the hub of sea adopted by the Germans and the miracle. The Kingdom of italy became container technology. lt is rapidly French. And, contrary to conventional the Italian Republic in 1946 and the becoming one of the Mediterranean's wisdom, Italy is one of the world's low nation's corporations blazed new traiJs vibrant and modern crossroads of com crime nations. According ro rhe French inro the global markets. Italian diplo merce. Ministry of lnrerior, Eurostat and macy followed. However, at least ten Typical of the new Italian initiatives is interpol statistics ( 1994), there were 40 American presidents continued to see Fiat's innovative Melfi plant, which is crimes per l ,000 population in Italy. Iraly as a jumble of polirical parries located approximately 500 kilometers Sweden, Britain, the Netherlands, without any international significance. east of Naples. This factory is known as Germany, France and Poland all Like most of irs European allies, the reported greater nwnbers of crimes. rhe Advanced Technology Automobile Cominued on page 29 ~~ 28 TIJe Italic Way t\!' · ~ \~yt:~.~ the world Italy's ability co carry our pean peacekeeping force under the ltalys Global Role peacekeeping missions. U.N. ro occupy Italy's former Balkan Continued ftom page 28 colony and restore order. This they did Italy's second opportunity in peace with great alacrity if little fanfare. In keeping came in 1992 in Somalia. United States held Italy in low esteem. accomplishjng rheir first solo military Then came Lebanon in I 982. George Herbert WaLker Bush had lefr mission since World War II, the Italians Somalia for BiU Clinton to tidy up. And sene a signal to Washington, London, The israeli invasion of fragmented whar had begun as a humanitarian Paris and Bonn. Iraly will no longer Lebanon led to a civil war rhar rhreat mission degenerated into a desert serve as an American appendage or ened thousands of innocent people in debacle for the Americans. Ironically, NATO's servile junior parrner. rhe Beirut area. The United Stares orga U.S. generals openly scorned 1calian nized a humanitarian expedition uti commanders for daring to negotiate Italy steadfastly opposes the U.S. pro lizing military unirs from rhe U.S., with Somalia's warlords. Though posal granting permanent sears to France, Britain, and lcaly. This was the Somalia had long been an Italian Germany and Japan. N he fifth largest first such operation rhe lralian armed colony, the Americans were filled with contributor co the United Nacions and a forces participated in since the Second military hubris. After a number of peacekeeper par excellence, Italy C A Great People Cannot Thrive on a Shoestring. We operate the Institute on a shoestring budget. But we think you will agree that few other organiza tions can match the scope or quality of our programs: video productions (Project Italia), youth education (Aurora), and of course, The Italic Way. Surprisingly, we have never received a major donation, bequest, or endowment. Imagine the potential if just one benefactor provided the Institute with a significant gift! Tax deductible! But, truly, any donation would help us in our much-needed work. Italic Studies Institute PO Box 818 Floral Park, NY 11001 (5 16) 488-7400 • Fax (5 16) 488-4889 29 recording artists shy away from such mare ALBANY (NY) Italian American Radio rial. A piry. Wouldn't you like to hear • Sunday (10 -II a.m.). WABY, 1400 AM and 94.5 FM, Rlcordi Iralinni Continu~d from p11g~ I I Madonna do Ct' Ia luna mnz' omnr~ p<.-c don't aim at a puticular age group. I have • Sunday (2-3 p.m.), WEEF. I 430 AM. Dommira .of rastt!$, and hopefully, reach a very young kids listening to me and their grear o:um Imume d.ivers1fied audience. grandparentl.. I rry ro play things that pi~ • Sunday (1-2 p.m.), WEEF. 1430 AM, L'Eco d'J Iralian American radio reaches out co the flllia everybody. although I don't play a grear deal public ~d presen~ Italic culture in an enjoy • Sunday-Friday (4-5 p.m.), WEEF, 1430 AM, of Italian hard rock." able, pamles.o. way. lr is a medium that has Radio Fiol't Similar views are held by Giuseppe Cicala. grear poremial for reaching the dormanr • Saturday (9:30-10 a.m.), WSBC. 1240 AM, an archirecr from a Sicilian hamlet ncar members of our communi[)' while anrncting Mdltinllln lralimuz Messina. He has hcen hosting ltalitm Melody • Saturday (II a.m.-noon) and Sunday (12:30-2 people from ocher backgrounds. Hour (3--4 p.m. Sundays on WFAX, 1220 p.m.), WJJG, 1530 AM, TIJc IBC Show Most lralian American radio programs AM, in Washington, DC) for 40 years. • Monday-Friday ( I 1:30 a.m.-I p.m.), WF.EF, come about through sheer force of will. "I do rhc show as bilingually as possible,'' 1430 AM, Italian Mcwdi~ Someone has an idea chen he M:lls a radio said Cicala, who sees his program as a catalyst • Monday-Friday (1 :30-2:30 p.rn.) ~nd Saturday station and a few sponsors on it. Occasion for the DC Italian communiry. "] rry ro (8:30-9:30 a.m.), WEEF, 1430 AM, Italian ally, however, they come about through good Radio Tlmurr prcsenr people from borh rhe official lralian furrune. Charlie Pisaruro's show, V!A (111e • Monday-Friday (3-4 p.m.), WEEF. 1400 AM. world and the local Jralian American com Voice of Italian Americans) on WALE in Fokwll' Ilalinno munity, and use wh1ch ever language they Providence, RJ, (990 AM, 10 - II a.m. KENOSHA (Wl) prefer during inrervicws. After the interview Sundays), is an example of the latter. The • Sunday, (noon-2 p.m.), WRJN, 1400 AM, [.a I'll sum up what th<.'Y ~id m the other fan~ \t&ce d'Jralia station owner wanred .10 Italian show. So he guage for the monolingual listeners. asked a friend ro find someone. The friend NEW YORK "Since we are in the nation's capital we get :ecommendcd Pis.1ruro, a well known lawyer • Sunday (10 a.m.-5 p.m.), 93.5 FM, Progmmma a lot of important vi\itors from Italy but we Cii1JJ m rhe area. VIA has been on the air for rhrec also have an active lralian-AmericaJl commu • Sunday (noon-4 p.m.), WLIM 1580 AM. Wla years. nity. They all have access to my microphone. SatJ01111 Show If you have access to an Italian American We make rhe inrerviews brief- rhree to five • Thursday (5-6:30 p.m.),WHPC, 90.5 FM, radio program, supporc ir. That means nor minures-and spot rhem in lx:twecn a lot of Profomi d'ltnlia only listening ro it but rclling others about • Saturday (I 0 a.m.-I 2 noon), WHRU, 88.7 FM, good lralian mtL~ic." the show, advertising on it if you have a busi Souvmir D'Jralia ~herher ain~ed ar immigranrs or larer gen ness (or encouraging ochers ro advertise on ir • Saturday (noon-2 p.m.). WHRU, 88.7 foM, erauons all lmltan American radio progranlS if you don't), parroniz.ing the businesses cl1ar Ciao Ira/in h:we one thing in common - recorded do advertise, and frequently calling and/or • Monday-Friday (9- 10 a.m.), WNYK, 105.9 music. It is rhe backbone of mosr, although FM, Ira/ian Sup~r Network writing the s1ation on which it airs ro say even the mosr music-filled shows also include something positive about "the Iralian show." PITTSBURGH some news of rhc local lralian community, • Sunday {1 1 a.m.-noon) and Monday-Wed Also, get ro know rhe people who wo1 k on news from lraly. and imcrviews. nCS{lay (4-5 p.m.), WEDO, 810 AM. Radio such shows. Call up while Lhey're on chc air When J host Ftstn !ttlliann I rry m mix ir Italia ro request a rune or make a dedication. Let up. playing some old music by rhe likes of PORTLAND (OR) rh~m know you appreciate what they're Carlo Buri, Claudio Villa or Sergio Bruni; a • Sunday (10-11 a.m.), KKEY, 1150 AM, 71,r domg for the Italic community. few selections from the '60s and '70s by stars Italian Hour After all, working on an lralian American such as A1 Bano, Domenico Modugno and PROVIDENCE, (Rl} radio program is a labor of love. The main • Sunday (10 - II a.m.), WAL£ 990 AM, IliA ~igliola Cinqueni, ro the latest hies by. for "pay" for chose who do is audience enthu 111SnlJ1ce, Jovanorri. Andrea BoceUi or Eros 11le Yvke vf llllli.ul f.JJ•c• iu..L\ siasm. Rarnazzorri. I also play some Italian-Amer ROCHESTER (NY) • Sunday (9 a.m.-noon), \Y!\Y/WG, 1460 AM, ican numbers by arrisrs such as Lou Monre The italic ~)was able ro find our about the Caros~Uo Italiano Connie Francis or Don C'.omell, which ar~ following Italian American radio programs. SACRAMENTO extremely popular wirh middle-aged lis We know there are many more; please inform • Sunday (noon-1 p.m.), KJAY, 1430 AM, Fata teners. Italian Ametican mu~ic in which Managing Ediror John Mancini (c/o nu· !IAiiatuz lyri~ arc partially in Italian, partially in Italic Way, P.O. Box 818, FlorJI Park, NY WASHINGTON, DC English, UJlfonunatcly arc a bit dared since L100 l, or FAX 516--488-4889) if you know • Sunday (3-4 p.m.). WFAX, 1220 AM. /rali1111 the current crop of Italian American of any. We'll lise them in a fururc issue. 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Although Italy boasts a lower inAarion rate than Germany, a higher GNP than Brirain and a lower unemployment level chan France, the European Mon etary Union had actively discouraged Italian participation in the opening round of the Euro currency. The Dutch and the Germans were Italy's most vocal opponents (Britain is nor even in the mix). Despite such setbacks, the Italians perse vered and won. Thanks to Romano Prodi's dogged commit menr to the Euro, lraly's deficit was reduced to within 3% of irs budget, bettering both Germany and France and falling within the harsh guidelines stipulated by the Italophobic mar tinets in rhe Bundesbank! .. Reported to police t1995 Sources ~ French Ministry of Interior; Eurostat; Interpol Italy's openness, allegiance to democratic values and respect for inrernacionaJ law arc viewed as signs of weakness rather than underlying strengths. .As the tangmtopoli ("Kickback tributor to the international manned mission ro Mars. The City") rrials demonstrated, political reform is serious business Italian space agency, l'Agmzia spa.ziak italiana (Asi) specializes in Italy. How many countries would dismantle their entire in telecommunications, robot technology and the construe political system, abolish cainred parties, and indict powerful cion of asrronaurs' living modules. estabushment figures in the cause of justice? How many Italophiles cannot help bur be swept up by Italy's bold bid nations would lay their souls bare, warrs and all, to achieve for world leadership in commerce, poucics and science. It is honcscy in government? Nor many. In this regard, Italy leads only fitting that as we enter the new millennium, the "New the world. Rome" be accorded its righrful place in the pantheon of As a role model for democratic governmenr, the Italian nanons. Republic has few equals. In irs abilicy to confronr corruption, in irs voter participation, and in irs standards of social respon sibilicy it is probably our superior. And now the Italians are ready co tread where no man has Family Savings as a gone before. 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