HOW DID VINCENZO BECOME JAMES? (Italian)

The article discusses the tradition followed by Italians of passing the names of their parents to their sons and daughters. It highlights how this tradition changed when Italians migrated to the U.S. and how they devised some creative strategies to honor their parents. It indicates that immigrants with parents whose names had English equivalents experienced no difficulty. It notes that those Italians with parents whose name could not be translated into English created acceptable alternatives.