Thanks to you both, yes, Cosenza seems a very likely transliteration, I'll happily add that to my notes.

My great-grandfather was listed on the US April 1930 census, and other documents, as Frank Magnone. Frank was short for Francisco, I believe, and I was named Francis after him. He was born on 2 ...

I've been researching family history and found some paperwork for my great grandfather that lists his birth (1878) taking place in "Cuisinzin, Calabrio, Italy". He was illiterate and was not a great English speaker and I assume that the person who took down the words probably had no idea of proper ...