Italy

Albums and tracks

• 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: "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.
• Questi Cazzi Di Piccioni
• This Ain't CNN: One of the languages spoken is Italian.

Concerts & other locations

• 82/07/05 Genoa Italy Stadio Ferraris
• 82/07/07 Milan Italy Parco Redecesio (Parco Redecesio)
• 82/07/08 Pistoia Italy Stadio Comunale
• 82/07/14 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
• 88/06/01 Padua Italy Palasport

Zappa associates from Italy

• Massimo Bassoli
• Tanino Liberatore
• Fabio Treves
• Francis Zappa (born in Partinicio, Sicily)

Classical composers, conductors and musicians

• Luciano Berio
• Luigi Nono
• Nino Rota
• Francesco Zappa (composer)

Rock and pop artists

• Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
• Caparezza
• Ivan Cattaneo
• PFM
• Pipco
• Fabio Treves
• Yahozna (The Italian Band)

Writers, journalists, magazines, books

• Massimo Bassoli
• Sonora (The Magazine)
• Sandro Veronesi

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

Scientists

• Ferdinando "Nando" Boero (Phialella Zappai)
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Galileo

Other

• An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa
• Banco Ambrosiano
• Count Catanti
• Salvo Cuccia
• Fellini Satyricon
• Italian Extraction
• Benito Mussolini
• My Brother Is an Italian Mother
• Pinocchio
• Pope
• Pope Paul III
• Pope Paul VI
• Torino
• Rudolph Valentino