1. Vitaliano Brancati, Beautiful Antonio (London: Penguin, 2007), 186–187. The Italian publisher of the novel was the Milan-based Bompiani.
2. See Paolo Mario Sipala, Vitaliano Brancati: Introduzione c guida allo studio dell’opera brancatiana, storia e antologia della critica (Firenze: Le Monnier, 1978), 67.
3. According to Brancati, gallismo consists purporting to have an extraordinary virile potency. See Vitaliano Brancati, “Diario Romano,” in Opere: 1947–1954, ed. Leonardo Sciascia (Milano: Bompiani, 1992), 380.
4. Jacqueline Reich, Beyond the latin lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 58.
5. George L. Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 155.