 The senior Gramsci was a low-level official born in the small town of Gaeta, in the province of Latina (in the Central Italian region of Lazio), to a well-off family from the Southern Italian regions of Campania and Calabria and of remote Arbëreshë (Italo-Albanian) descent.Antonio Gramsci himself mistakenly believed his father's family had left Albania as recently as 1821.The Albanian origin of his father's family is attested in the surname Gramsci, an Italianized form of "Gramshi", that stems from the definite noun of the placename Gramsh, a small town in central-eastern Albania.