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45. The casa e bottega arrangement see p. 45) persisted until after World War II. For a more detailed account of the relationship between the insulae and their medieval successors, see Mirri (1996, a5).
46. Aside from tactical code-switching, individual speakers exhibit idiosyncratic usages; a few retain supposedly archaic forms and at least one, a Jewish itinerant vendor, occasionally uses Hebrew-derived words characteristic of the older Jewish dialect of Rome (giudio-romanesco).
47. See Sanfilippo n.d., esp. 94-97.
48. See the reports in City (Rome), "False guide e centurioni abusive, 28 denunciati," 15 April 2005, p. 22; "Centurioni abusive al Colosseo erano assoldati dalla malavita," Repubblica, r5 April2005, p. 31 (the source of the quotation); "Colosseo, it racket dei centurioni," Il Messaggero, r5 April 200 5, P. 34.
49. The chorus is one of the highlights of Verdi's third opera, Nabucco; there have been suggestions that it should be made the official national anthem. The Northern League views it as an allegory of their own liberation from the Italian state and as a work of northern genius despite the fact that Verdi himself was a committed if somewhat unorthodox Italian nationalist. For obvious reasons, it has had resonance in Israel and even in Greece. It was probably the inspiration of the words that he set to this piece that kept Verdi inspired to work on the composition of opera at the most critical juncture in his life despite the loss of his first wife and both his children (Toye 1931, 21-25 ).
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i. Antonello Ricci 1999, 38.
2. See the lengthy and quite analytical discussion of the "geography of prostitution" showing linkages between specific national groups or countries of origin with particular districts of Rome-in "Prostituzione, linea dura con i clienti," La Repubblica, Rome section, 5 March 2000, p. III. On links between prostitution, immigration, and national identity in Sicily, see Cole and Booth 2007, 109-17.
3. See, for example, the urban planner Lidia Decandia's proposal that new ideas and forms might emerge from sites marginalized by their association with conflict (2000, 262). For a less sanguine view of conflict in determining the city's trajectory, see Bocquet 2007.
4. See especially Palumbo 2001, 33; 2003, 12-15, 47-48. To say that "conflict" marks social relations is merely to restate a local perception and to invest it with the aura of a theoretical construct. By focusing instead on the specifically conflict-laden quality of particular social relations as conveyed by the abstract Italian noun ("conflictuality" ), we can more easily avoid the assumption, common in older anthropological writings and popular with Italian civic moralists, that conflict is necessarily evil.
5. He is especially acerbic about the ways in which the bureaucratic culture of the municipal authorities tends to recast "participation" as a routine activity, and emphasizes the importance of resisting that tendency (see Scandurra 2003, 18; 2oo6).
6. Scandurra 2006, 10. See also Cellamare 2008, 84.
7. See especially Sabetti 2000, 212-38.
8. See Putnam 1993, 88); on officializing strategies, see Bourdieu 1977, 37-40. Sabetti's critique (2000) is especially