Technically It could be. There is a rumor that my family is related to Giovanni Verga. He was a Sicilian Count and an author. Personally IO think if my family is related it is due to "illegitimacy" or "Slave adoption."
Family legends do make interesting stories, don’t they. I’m tenuously connected via possible ancestry to several historical figures in the United States, England and Ireland but wouldn’t claim to actually be related because it can’t be proved.
Sicilians can count? /jk
FWIW, my Italian side is from the Cilento region south of Salerno, owned olive groves that they sold to start a pharmacy in Philly 100 years ago; not a lot of Cilento types in the US. If my grandfather hadn't died right after my mother was born, I'd probably be Catholic today, but grandmom remarried a Methodist, and that's how my mother was raised.
;^) cute!