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I am searching for Pietro Grisafi who was working as a waiter in a restaurant in Winchester, Hampshire (England) in 1963. Any news will be greatly appreciated. It is thought that he may have gone to Canada or America as he had friends there, or perhaps returned to Sicily.
The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...