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Joan Acocella recounts her ex-husband’s attempts to Italianize their Christmas.

It marks the beginning of the “new” city built by the fascist government in the 1920s to Italianize the otherwise Germanic-looking city.

An American Army Air Forces lieutenant gallantly saves the day, an opportunity for Tutino to Italianize "The Star Spangled Banner" just as Puccini had in "Madama Butterfly."

As had those Neapolitan tailors, she managed somehow to take English styles like a Duke jacket, a mackintosh and the convoy or duffel coat made famous by Field Marshal Montgomery and to relax and Italianize them.

But the original sin of his German origin clung to him; he was not a Reisach and could not Italianize himself.