Rossellini anti-hero (appropriate, given that his daughter Isabella was an early muse for the boys). Then there was a baroque passage of moirés, velvets, and frog closings that could have stepped straight out of Visconti's The Leopard, the movie that was an early education for Domenico and Stefano in the essential truth that life's aristocrats don't need to rely on wealth for their bearing. And then—up and out of nowhere—dear old Rocky Balboa, the Italian Stallion, the newest star in ...