In 1950, nearly half of the more than 10,000 New Yorkers living in the heart of Little Italy identified as Italian-American.
The lure of the Paris Opera drew many foreign composers to the city, including the German Meyerbeer, who contributed four blockbuster operas to the genre and is the composer with whom French grand opera is most closely identified, as well as the Italians Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi.
In September, another body was found in the same area of the canal and was later identified as the Italian national Sebastiano Magnanini.
The aid workers, identified as an Italian man and a German man, worked for Welthungerhilfe, an international aid group based in Bonn, Germany.
At one point, a dramatic rescue took place in the air above the ship, where a man, later identified as an Italian crew member, was hoisted on a stretcher into a hovering helicopter.
But they ruled that a series of objects that had been confiscated from Mr. Hecht's homes should return to their "rightful owner," which was identified as the Italian state, a decision Mr. Vannucci said he would contest.
The object is described with sufficient precision in the 1665 inventory of Cardinal Mazarin's collection to be identified as one the Italian-born minister's possessions.
The dead were identified as Maria Angeloni, a 31‐year‐old Italian, and George Tsekouris, 25, a Cypriot student.
The utility company spokesman, who asked not to be identified, as is common with Italian companies, said there were also public safety reasons for the brighter light, noting that some parts of the city were deemed to be too dark.
One apparently conclusive piece of evidence was an alleged phone conversation recorded between Rabei Osman and an Islamic sympathiser identified as Yahya, intercepted by Italian police after he returned home to Milan.
