Nora’s family is from the walled Jewish ghetto of Padua

[professor rat]

Nora’s family is from the walled Jewish ghetto of Padua and she switched her maiden name from Almagià to Almagía, convinced that by changing the accent she was fabricating an immunity for herself! Meanwhile, her Italian husband Giusseppe had dug up texts by Proudhon, Bakunin, Malatesta, and other anarchists. 

https://anarchistnews.org/content/dark-century-elsa-morante-and-elena-ferrante