Word: anticoli
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...Margutta enjoyed its golden age in the 19th century. Then the hill villages of Anticoli and Saracinesco, which have traditionally supplied artist models to the capital, still sent their handsomest daughters to Margutta studios. Fashionable painters gave parties at which young artists sipped champagne with Adelina Patti, Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. Wagner was so fascinated with Via Margutta that he considered settling down there. The Marguttiani, appalled at having their peace disturbed by "a German who writes futuristic music," were relieved when the composer abandoned the idea...
This week, political observers the world over would be watching the elections in Rome, Naples and some 2,400 municipalities in southern Italy, to see how well the Reds fare. But the conflicts and labels that agitate the rest of the world did not stir towns like Eboli and Anticoli...
Beans & Bread. Anticoli is a medieval town of 2,000, perched prettily on a hillside 40 miles east of Rome. It has a fine breeze, a good view, a Communist regime, and fresh-skinned girls whom Rome artists favor as models. But it has little work; the local wage is 65? a day. The main diet is beans and bread...
...station and let himself be arrested-to atone for his daughter's deeds and save his family's honor. His wife and his two other daughters took their cart and walked off into the countryside. In the ghetto, the arrests continued. Among the Jews seized was Lazzaro Anticoli, one of the Black Panther's childhood friends. In prison, so goes the story, he cut himself, and with his finger dipped in his own blood wrote on the wall of his cell: "My name is Lazzaro Anticoli, arrested by the Black Panther...
...mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired peasant woman of Anticoli last week, "we have no fear...