According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Italian-American actress Bernadette Peters, who was born Bernadette Lazzara, changed her last name to avoid being typecast as women who were Italian or of Italian heritage.

Sal replies that it is his store ; he is proud of his Italian heritage and he doesn't have to feature anyone but Italians on his wall.

In 1999 Aprilia entered World Superbike Championship racing with its RSV Mille, and during 2000, Aprilia acquired Moto-Guzzi and Laverda, both historic heritage Italian marques.

The county is named in honor of Colonel Francis Vigo, of Italian heritage but a citizen of Spain due to residence in St. Louis.

The neighborhood also hosts a large Columbus Day / Italian American heritage day parade along Columbus Avenue to Aquatic Park.

Since 1898, Tontitown has held an annual grape festival in mid-August, which celebrates the harvest and the town's Italian American heritage.

Residents of the Village are mostly of Croatian and Italian heritage.

Herrin hosts the annual Herrinfesta Italiana, a Memorial Day weekend celebration of the town's Italian heritage.

Clinton hosts the annual Little Italy Festival, a four-day Labor Day Weekend celebration of the area ’ s Italian and coal mining heritage.

Luc Ferrari ( February 5, 1929-August 22, 2005 ) was of an Italian heritage but French born composer, particularly noted for his tape music.

Also located downtown are the Round Oak Restaurant, Philo's Pub, The Wounded Minnow Saloon ( named as an homage to the Heddon heritage ), Wood Fire Italian Trattoria ( featuring live jazz and blues three nights per week ), and Saylor's Pizza, which bills itself as " Home of the $ 5 Pizza ".

The National Organization of Italian American Women ( NOIAW ), founded in 1980, is an organization for women of Italian heritage committed to preserving Italian heritage, language and culture by promoting and supporting the advancement of women of Italian ancestry.

For almost 25 years, Cleveland Bishop Anthony Pilla participated in the parade and Mass to celebrate his Italian heritage.

There are also substantial populations of Irish, Italian, and Polish heritage.

Danzig was born Glenn Allen Anzalone, the third of four sons born to a Protestant family of Italian, German, and Scottish heritage in Lodi, New Jersey.

Irene was a strongwilled woman of Irish heritage, and Frank was a jovial Italian househusband who loved cooking and singing.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

Ballet flowered in Italy during the next hundred years, and about 1550 was carried to France when the Italian princess, Catherine De Medicis, married the King of France.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

The Greek alphabet, in its Euboean form, was carried over by Greek colonists to the Italian peninsula, where it gave rise to a variety of alphabets used to write the Italic languages.

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

A mummified man, determined to be 5, 000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian – Italian border in 1991.

Antonio Agliardi ( September 4, 1832 – March 19, 1915 ) was an Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal, archbishop, and papal diplomat.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

Cam., also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, ( 1386 – October 20, 1439 ) was an Italian monk and theologian, who was a prime supporter of the papal cause in the 15th century.

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

Furthermore, he was depicted upon the Italian 10, 000 Lire ( no longer in circulation ) along with a sketch of his famous Voltaic Pile.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

Amerigo Vespucci () ( March 9, 1454February 22, 1512 ) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

It is perhaps no accident that the factuality of the Italian Renaissance has been most vigorously questioned by those who are not obliged to take a professional interest in the aesthetic aspects of civilization — historians of economic and social developments, political and religious situations, and, most particularly, natural science — but only exceptionally by students of literature and hardly ever by historians of Art.

Maestro Italo Marchini questioned her about this in 2002 at the Villa in Torre del Lago and she stated that in Italian the name would be Turandotta.

The appropriateness of the Italian source material for the setting of the solemn concluding chorus " His yoke is easy " has been questioned by the music scholar Sedley Taylor, who calls it " a piece of word-painting ... grieviously out of place ", though he concedes that the four-part choral conclusion is a stroke of genius that combines beauty with dignity.

The group's patriotism had been questioned because of the Italian spelling of the name, whilst accusations were also made that they were in the pay of the Italian government.

The opposition questioned the relationship with an Italian named Valter Lavitola, a close associate of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

However, he never questioned whether or not Trentino should belong to Austria – Hungary and claimed that, in the case of a referendum, 90 % of the Trentino would nevertheless choose the popular Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria over the Italian motherland.

Modotti — who was a target of both the Mexican and Italian political police — was questioned about both crimes amidst a concerted anti-communist, anti-immigrant press campaign, that depicted " the fierce and bloody Tina Modotti " as the perpetrator.

Experts have also questioned the " patriotism " motive on the grounds that — were patriotism the true motive — Peruggia would have donated the painting to an Italian museum, rather than attempt to profit from its sale.

When questioned, Frankie responds in a male voice speaking Italian, then collapses on the bed.

A survey of troops in the forward areas and evacuation hospitals of the Fifth U. S. Army serving in the Italian campaign noted that almost all soldiers questioned in infantry, engineer, and other mobile forward units said they had lost weight since the beginning of the Italian campaign.

Tensions between CL and the Italian episcopate peaked when " Il Sabato " questioned the scientific methodology used by Bible experts in analysing the Dead Sea Scrolls ( Martini is a renowned Biblical scholar ).

The SD and the Italian RSS office, Mario Carità questioned Bartali, threatening his life.

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, head of the Italian Federation of the Greens, indicated that should the United States fail to cooperate with this investigation by allowing Lozano to be questioned, he would push for a hearing at the International Court of Justice.

Further, Republican state chairman Bob Gable questioned whether Wilkinson had helped Italian businessmen circumvent laws that made it difficult to export Italian currency by disguising real estate ventures as legitimate business transactions with Jernigan Export Timber.

Sadkovich questioned this point of view in ' Of Myths and Men ' and ' The Italian Navy ', but persistent stereotypes, including that of the incompetent Italian, are well entrenched in the literature, from Puleston's early ' The Influence of Sea Power ', to Gooch's ' Italian Military Incompetence ,' to more recent publications by Mack Smith, Knox and Sullivan.

Théophile came into contact with the epicurean ideas of the Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini ( who was accused of heresy and of practising magic, and was burned alive in Toulouse in 1619 ) which questioned the immortality of the soul.