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31. This is an elaboration of the point made by Nelken (2004, 20).
32. This is an important dimension of what I have called "social poetics"; see Herzfeld 2005, 21-26, 169, 171.
33. See below, pp. 199-212.
34. This is the correct rendition of the name of the coin in Romanesco. The Italianized spelling is quattrino. Readers may be reminded of the notorious tag about the Venetian Republic, "prima veneziani e poi cristiani" (First Venetians and only after that Christians). There is, however, an important difference: whereas the Venetian saying can be read as either boastfully independent or morally regretful about a deficient relationship with the dominant religion, the Roman proverb explicitly attacks the religious authority as failing to live up to its own standards.
3.5. Some of the power of surviving conflicts lies in their great age. Thus, notably, Palumbo (2003) has traced centuries of conflict through the shaping of historiography as well as of the landscape in a Sicilian town, where modern political life, now attached to national electoral processes, nevertheless continues to reproduce fissures dating back to interparish rivalries and the struggles of princes and their followers in the high Renaissance.
36. Rutelli, once a conspicuous critic of clerical corruption, ran as a member of the Green (environmental) party; once elected, however, he implemented some neoliberal policies and also muted his former anticlericalism. For a frontal attack on his earlier inconsistencies, see Bruto 1997. On the jubilee, see Berdini 2000, 89-104.
37. The city authorities easily breach the walls of proprietors' resistance through a provision that requires that about 40 percent of the costs of restoration be undertaken from public monies.
38. The usual phrase is "of seven generations" (de sette generazioni); since her greatgrandmother had already been entitled to that description, however, this restorer took great pride in being able to extend her pedigree even further back. Romans of fewer than seven generations' presence in the city are considered still to be Romans "by adoption," although this distinction appears to be quite imprecisely applied.
39. See, for example, Rosenau 1943, 228.
40. See, for example, Plesset 2006, 31-33.
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i. In one instance, for example, he sold a necklace valued at 8oo,00o lire for 300,000.
2. Fiducia, which can also have the more general moral sense of "trust" in English, is disproportionately underreported in the available ethnographies of Italian society; but see Pardo 1996, 88; Suputtamongkol 2007, 203. Cf. Putnam's ideal-typical representation of "trust" in the Italian context (2003, 167-71); it is not clear that this corresponds to local understandings of fiducia.
3. And I found myself wondering whether the jeweler claimed this as a different event somewhere near the sea as a way of not admitting that it happened in Monti!
4. Haney (1922, 95-96) notes that such social proximity was the basis of all significant economic relations in medieval Europe and suggests that this is what made usury between close associates especially disgusting.
5. For the involvement of the Sicilian mafia, see especially the parliamentary inquiry to be found at Verbale seduta no. 15, PP. 537-538 (http://clarence.dada.net/contents/societa/memoria/antimafia/violanteo i /index.html). I am grateful to Bernardino Palumbo for bringing this useful resource to my attention. Although the family in question figures in the inquiry, it is not specifically mentioned as being involved in racketeering in Rome-but my sources were unusually specific in this case.
6. This I obviously cannot do, but the documentation is specific and entirely persuasive.
7. This, as Augusto Ferraiuolo (2000, 48) points out in his rich analysis of historical texts, "reveals ... the modalities of social control operated by the Church through the instrument of the confession."
8. Actually this case returned to public view, although the prosecution never succeeded in making its case. La Repubblica ran the following articles