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Carmine Ciampi was born on 19 May 1907 at 8:20pm in the house at Contrada Confine #19 to Pasquale Ciampi, age 48, peasant farmer and Maria Giuseppa Marone, his legitimate wife living with him in the town of Frigento.
Giving testimony are Giuseppe Melchionna, age 39, property owner, and Giovanni Capobiano, age 37, tenant farmer.
Italians have a long and deep-rooted tradition of beliefs about luck and things that give either good or bad luck. In Italy there are colloquial names for bad luck. Think of:"sfiga" or "jella" (read it as "yella), but the most scary thing for millions of Italians is "Il Malocchio", which translate ...