The Two Italies of Fiorello La Guardia: From Foggia to Fiume
Two Italies meet in the blood of New York’s legendary mayor: the Catholic South of his bandmaster father from Foggia, and the Jewish Adriatic of his mother, born in Fiume.
Two Italies meet in the blood of New York’s legendary mayor: the Catholic South of his bandmaster father from Foggia, and the Jewish Adriatic of his mother, born in Fiume.
In 2023 Sylvester Stallone raised his grandfather’s barber-shop key on a town-hall balcony in Puglia. Behind the actor lies a Puglian line documented, generation by generation, in the Italian archives — from Gioia del Colle and Palo del Colle back more than two centuries.
Behind the most famous American voice of the twentieth century lie two Italian towns — Lercara Friddi in Sicily and Rossi di Lumarzo in Liguria — and a paper trail that leads straight back to them.