For balance of a sort, this series also features the wife's not-to-be-stopped Italian mother.

She was born to a Tunisian father and an Italian mother.

Everyone knows you never win against an Italian mother.

Maffia is mixed race, born to an Italian mother and a black father.

Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight.

"Pierre is like an Italian mother in a restaurant," says a longtime associate.

He was followed by the Italian mother and son.

He is, in short, the good son any Italian mother would like to have.

He's the son of a Spanish father and an Italian mother.

Hildebrandt was the son of an Italian mother and a German father.