Word: alimonti
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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With liberation, Arsolians trustfully hoped for better times. Local Communist Boss Fabio Alimonti went to Rome. Dressed in his best shiny black suit, he faced Rome's prefect. Said he: "You take our water for your benefit and spill what you don't need. The people of Arsoli cannot be left to die. Find a pump to bring life back to our hills...
When the prefect remarked that Alimonti used language far above his station, that his was no peasant's talk, Alimonti replied: "I could throttle my mother for having given birth to a clever son. I wish I were like other Arsolians who are ready to go down before your force. I cannot. I see things as they are. My fire won't let me sleep nor eat nor laugh till I see justice done." When Alimonti returned to Arsoli he believed that he had won his point. To the peasants crowding round him in the shadow...
After months went by and nothing happened, angry Alimonti sat down at his rough desk. In fine handwriting for which, too, he curses his mother, he wrote a letter to the highest authority, the republic's then President Enrico de Nicola: "Now that we have a republic and that the people reign . . .", and he explained Arsoli's case: "Please see that something is done for this starving population." Punctilious, prompt and useless was De Nicola's reply. It ran: "Your request has been passed on to competent Roman municipal authorities." That was the end of that...
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