Word: apulia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Travail of a Prince. In their trouble they turned where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal...
When Italian antiFascists assembled in Bari on Jan. 28 to demand his abdication, the left-over Fascists and opportunists still in office in Apulia tried to stop the meeting by decreeing that visitors to Bari must have special health permits to enter the city. The meeting, held nevertheless, received its answer a few days later; the Allies turned over new and additional parts of liberated Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily, to the control of the Emanuele-Badoglio Government...
...showed that some priceless architectural monuments had already been wiped out or ruined. But in view of the ferocity of the Italian campaign, the damage was remarkably small. Few irreplaceable buildings were destroyed in Apulia or Calabria. Farther north the destruction was greater. Among the monuments completely demolished were: the 12th-Century cathedral at Benevento; Naples' Santa Chiara Church-the finest Gothic church in the city; the Church of the Incoronata, at Naples, which contained frescoes of the Sienese School...
...tennis court and an ancient castle, bougainvillea sprawled purple over faded garden walls. Carabinieri in tricorn hats, Italian sailors in blue woolens guarded the villa. By the grace of the U.S. and Britain, the King and the Marshal held power in four of the liberated provinces 'in Apulia, the heel of Italy.* Given power by the Allies, they were no more than puppets charged with the task of fashioning a government that would cause the Allies no trouble, and, incidentally, provide stability until all Italy is liberated...
...Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open to as many more men as the Allied commands cared to send across the Strait of Messina, and to enlarge their conquest the invaders had only to keep on marching...