history, and geography, Vittorio Emanuele studied at theNunziatella Military Schoolin Naples and theMilitary Academy of Modena. He then served with the Italian forces in Naples, Como, and Florence. He was also an avid numismatist.
The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro dropped out of school at age 16 to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. After working in a few Off-Off-Broadway plays, he appeared in his first film, Brian De Palma’s The Wedding Party (filmed 1963, released 1969). Therea...