Italy
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Italy is a country in southern Europe. Frank Zappa's father, Francis Zappa, was born in Sicily.
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Frank Zappa concerts in Italy
- 71/11/17 Italy
- 71/12/03 Milan Italy
- 73/08/29 Milan Italy
- 73/08/30 Bologna Italy Stadio Communale
- 73/08/31 Rome Italy Palasport
- 73/09/01 Verona Italy
- 74/09/06 Rome Italy
- 74/09/07 Udine Italy Palazzo della Sport
- 74/09/08 Bologna Italy Stadio Comunale
- 74/09/09 Milan Italy Velodromo Vigorelli
- 74/09/10 Palermo SICILY Italy
- 80/07/ SICILY Italy
- 82/07/02 Turin Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/03 Bolzano Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/04 Bologna Italy Quartiere Fieristico
- 82/07/05 Genoa Italy Stadio Ferraris
- 82/07/07 Milan Italy Parco Redecesio (Parco Redecesio)
- 82/07/08 Pistoia Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/08 Pistoia Italy Stadio Comunale
- 82/07/09 Rome Italy Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio
- 82/07/12 Naples Italy Stadio San Paolo
- 82/07/14 Palermo Italy Stadio Comunale La Favorita (subject of the documentary Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily)
- 84/10/08 Milan Italy Palazzo Dello Sport, San Siro
- 84/10/09 Genoa Italy Palasport
- 84/10/10 Bologna Italy Teatro Tenda Parco Nord
- 84/10/11 Venice Italy
- 84/10/12 Viareggio Italy Bussola Domani
- 84/10/13 Padua Italy Palazzo dello Sport, San Lazzaro
- 84/10/14-16 Rome Italy Teatro Tenda Pianeta
- 88/05/30 Udine Italy Palasport Primo Carnera
- 88/06/01 Padua Italy Palasport
- 88/06/02 Milan Italy Palatrussardi
- 88/06/03 Turin Italy Palasport
- 88/06/05 Modena Italy Palasport
- 88/06/06 Florence Italy Palasport
- 88/06/07 Rome Italy PalaEur
- 88/06/09 Genoa Italy Palasport
References to Italy in Frank Zappa's work
- In Frank Zappa's list with influences, printed in the sleeve of Freak Out!, composer Luigi Nono is mentioned.
- On the cover of We're Only In It For The Money, Pope Paul III and Ginevra de Benci can be seen.
- Roy Estrada played the Pope on the album Ahead Of Their Time.
- Billy The Mountain: "He's just a crazy Italian who drove a red car (...) or if he has a son named Pinocchio, or what?".
- The Legend Of Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus & the Grand Wazoo: The liner notes state that Uncle Meat has "a life-size, minutely detailed, historically inacurrate, somewhat perverted illusionary replica of Ancient Rome, or something". Cleetus is also an emperor who puts his prisoners on display in an arena. A side character is named Ben-Hur Barret, after the novel and film Ben-Hur, which is also sent in ancient Roman times.
- The line "Dominus vobiscum et cum spiritu tuo" in Father O'Blivion and The Mammy Nuns is Latin.
- Alpha Romeo is one of the constellations on the back cover of One Size Fits All.
- Florentine Pogen: "She was the daughter of a Florentine pogen".
- Dancin' Fool and Stick It Out: "Wait a minute, I've got it! You're Italian!"
- Pope John Paul II can be seen on the back cover of The Man From Utopia, which also depicts the group's concert in Palermo, Sicily.
- Pinocchio's Furniture
- Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (The Track)
- The Pope, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benito Mussolini and Galileo are characters in Dio Fa (which also mentions Torino).
- Questi Cazzi Di Piccioni
- This Ain't CNN: One of the languages spoken is Italian.
- People from Italian Extraction are conceptual continuity in Zappa's work.
Zappa associates from Italy
- Massimo Bassoli
- Giuseppe Franco (born in Calabria, later moved to the US)
- Tanino Liberatore
- Fabio Treves
- Francis Zappa (born in Partinicio, Sicily)
Classical composers, conductors and musicians
Rock and pop artists
Italian Zappa cover bands
Writers, journalists, magazines, books
Visual artists
- Leonardo Da Vinci (his Ginevra de Benci can be seen on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money)
- Tanino Liberatore
