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Nor were insects ignored: the habitually irritating were either Zampaglione (the Calabrian word for mosquito), or Mosca (fly), Moscone (blue-bottle fly), or some variant (including Mussolini , which, as we have seen, could be a diminutive of Giacomo ).
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.
Hanks and Hodges list no fewer than 90 Italian surname forms of Giacobo (Jacob) , for instance, and a further 76 variations of Giacomo (James) , itself a New Testament derivative of Giacobo .
It quoted Jesuit church historian Giacomo Martina, a professor at the Gregorian University in Rome, as saying that the claim was "shameful."
Escape down the little paved road south of town to the peace of the shady Romanesque and Renaissance cloisters of the 14th-century Certosa di San Giacomo, or in the direction of Via Camerelle that eventually leads to the famous Punta Tragara lookout and the Faraglioni.