Word: pozzuoli
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...Romilda's mother refused to let her go on the ground that Rudolph Valentino had reportedly been poisoned and that was a portent of what a good Italian could expect in America. So Romilda began living with Scicolone instead, and ended up by returning to her native Pozzuoli with a baby daughter...
...Pozzuoli, on the Bay of Naples, has been described in a travel book as "perhaps the most squalid city in Italy." The most squalid city in Italy has music in its streets, cluttered pink and white buildings, seagulls screaming overhead, a bright blue waterfront, a Roman amphitheater where Gennaro-patron saint of Naples-achieved his exaltation simply because a pride of lions refused to eat him. It now has a municipal slogan: "What a woman we have exported." Romilda's health was poor, and her breasts went dry. Little Sofia-the ph was inserted later because it seems more...
Generazione Bruciata. In the early days, before World War II, Romilda helped support her daughters by giving piano lessons in Pozzuoli and playing in local cafés. Sophia's grandfather-who now at 78 struts about town in the warmth of his magic celebrity-was then a cannon maker at the local arms factory. In the four-room family flat, nine people slept in one bedroom; Sophia shared a bed with her grandmother, grandfather and an aunt...
...piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...