Evicted From Eternity_ The Restructuring of Modern Rome - Michael Herzfeld [213]
25. A famous, stereotypical account of "the Italians" is provided by Barzini (1964); for a more recent attempt to generalize about the country, but more from the perspective of its laboring classes, see Bravo 2001.
26. Loizos (1996, 56-58) points out that Margaret Thatcher's ostensible attempts to reduce the role of government in everyday life may in fact have been quite the opposite; and the parallel with Italy is striking in this respect.
27. This dismissive phrase recalls a similar expression used to express contempt for a discussion carried out by a few unimportant people, described as four cats (quattro gatti).
28. On one of the Web sites devoted to the Romanesco dialect, the Roma club flag serves as the equivalent of the national flag for the two columns comparing Romanesco with standard Italian.
29. Frosinone is a hinterland town in Lazio.
30. His choice of the term quartiere (quarter, however, shows that he did not grow up here. Technically, but importantly in Monti eyes, the districts within the Aurelian walls are classified as rioni, while only those outside the walls are quartieri.
31. See especially the description in Cellamare 2007, 69-71
32. The passage, which my friend read tome from an Italian translation, is as follows: "Cette nuit it y a eu deux assassinats. Un boucher, presque enfant, a poignard6 son rival, jeune homme de vingt-quatre ans, et fort beau, ajoute le fils de mon voisin, qui me fait ce r6cit. Mais ils etaient tons deux, ajoute-t-il, du quartier dei Monti (des Monts), ce sent des gens terribles. Notez que ce quartier est a deux pas de nous, du cote de Sainte-Marie- Majeure; a Rome, la largeur d'une place change les murs" (Stendhal n.d. b, 23, diary entry of 27 February, 1828; original emphasis). The passage also shows that in Stendhal's day the extreme fragmentation of Rome into micro-quarters was already very marked (and in fact had long been so). For an assessment of Stendhal's accuracy in reporting, see Tillett 1971, 99, 106. His information on these particular points certainly accords well, at least in a generic sense, with current memory in Rome.
33. See his engraving of a stone throwing contest between young men of the two districts, reproduced in Cascioli 1987, 219.
34. Classically, see Evans-Pritchard 1940; cf. Peters 1967.
35. See, for example, Herzfeld 1985; Papataxiarchis 2006; Salzman 1978.
36. That leader then became the king of Libya, himself eventually overthrown in a revolution that further consolidated national unity under the secular leadership of Qaddafi (Evans-Pritchard 1949; on the later developments, see Davis 1988).
37. See Niola 199.5, especially 33, 79, 111. On segmentation in the context of the European nation-state, see more generally Herzfeld 2005, 95.
38. This tendency to baronial fragmentation was accentuated anew, especially in the shaping of the city plan, in the final decades of papal rule; see Lanoue, forthcoming.
39. See, on thepalio, Handelman 199o,: 116-35; Silverman 1979. On "wars of saints," see especially Magliocco 1993; Palumbo 2003, 110-25; 2004.
40. See Niola 1995, 77-78. On the social production of scholarly purism, see especially Palumbo 2003, 250-63.
41. See Holmes 2000, 29-30; and, for an example of the ecclesiastical implications of subsidiarity in another context, that of Malta, see Ranier Fsadni, The Writings of Mgr Paul Cremona, The Times (Malta), 7 December 2006. Interestingly, Holmes (2000, 30), immediately after this discussion, invokes the concept of original sin (although more metaphorically than I do here?) as a means of exploring the tensions between multiculturalism and some of the underlying assumptions of leaders of European Union member states.
42. In a richly expressive appreciation of the then newly appointed Archbishop of Malta, the Maltese Catholic intellectual Ranier Fsadni notes the new primate's experience of subsidiarity as service in a variety of positions that do not add up