Zappa means "hoe" in Italian, symbol of the back-breaking toil of the Sicilian peasants who had to scratch a living from the dry stony ground. Frank Zappa's father, Francis Vincent Zappa, was born on 7 May 1905 in Partinico, western Sicily, a small town of about 20,000 people. Partinico is twelve miles west of Palermo along a twisting mountain road. As area of astonishing beauty, with Greek temples, Roman bridges, Saracen mosques, Romanesque churches and cloistered monasteries set among olive groves and vineyards, it is also the Mafia heartland.
-Barry Miles, Zappa: A Biography
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