WC’s classical literature professor and mentor, Dominic A. LaRusso, held that the three greatest men in Western Civilization were Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dante Alighieri and Leonardo Da Vinci. It was only natural, LaRusso (a second generation Sicilian) would say, that all three were Italian. When LaRusso learned that WC was an avowed atheist, LaRusso assigned…