My Beloved, My Darling and My Face can both be "correct. My Italian grandparents (Nano was Sicilian and Nani Northern Italian Alps) and my mom and aunts (Albany, NY), all either from the old country or true fluent speakers and translators, always said that Cara Mia was based on three Italian dialects that used it...Sicilian, Northern Italy (near the Alps shared border.) and something they used to say that to this day at age 62, I still can't realize why, "sub-Catalan" or a term like that.