By Nino Pantano

To hear the Honorable Consul General of Italy Natalia Quintavalle cordially calling Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz "Marty" was music to our ears. Both Markowitz and Quintavalle, accompanied by her deputy, Lucia Pasqualini, were visiting the Enrico Caruso Museum of America for the first time on Monday, Oct. 7

The museum, located at 1942 East 19th St. between Avenues S and T, has had thousands of visitors over the last quarter century. It is the "dream come true" of Cavaliere Ufficale Aldo Mancusi. His wife Lisa allowed him to make their upstairs apartment into a shrine to the immortal Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921).

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