Clementius Stupnagel di Montefalcone: the saga of a smart artist (smartast)

Chapter 2
CSM’s father was not present at his mariage nor at the birth of his son. The reason for this is that he wasn’t in Coney Island, but somewhere in Italy. The di Montefalcone’s were an old banking family, apparently since the times of the Etruscan invasion. CSM’s father had a love affaire with Mussolini and went back to the home town (Poggibonsi) of his ancestors as soon as the Duce granted Italian citizenship to all those who emigrated to America and wanted back.
Then, perhaps because of the war, track was lost of this man until he resurfaced in 1946, as pennyless as before. In the meantime, CSM’s mother moved from Coney Island to Queens, and then to the Bronx, near Van Cortland Park.
Her appartment in the Bronx was too small to house CSM’s father too so they all moved to Brooklyn, in a small house on a side street off Flatbush avenue. CSM resented the intrusion of his father into the cocoon his mother had built around himself. Mrs. di Montefalcone née Stupnagnel was a quite religious (catholic) character of Austrian descent. She was born and brought up in Klagenfurt where her father made wooden skis.