Word: arezzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the 14th century courtroom of nearby Arezzo, Subbiano's Mayor Cerofolino was tried behind closed doors, found guilty of blackmail, coercion and moral turpitude, and sentenced to two years at hard labor and the loss of his civil rights for 20 years. "None of this," growled ex-Mayor Cerofolino, "would have happened if Nofri had stayed in the party." That night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri...
...Italian Bantamweight Mario D'Agata, a stone-deaf laundryman from Arezzo, opened a cut over the eye of Champion Robert Cohen in the third round of a match in Rome, and then kept slicing at it accurately and relentlessly. At the bell for the start of the seventh, Cohen's cut was bleeding uncontrollably, and D'Agata was new champion...
...painter and mathematician, Piero della Francesca (circa 1418-92). Legend has it that Piero was a fatherless boy who took the name of his mother Francesca. He studied at Florence, returned to Borgo San Sepolcro to get his first major commission, traveled through Italy painting in Rimini, Ferrara, Rome, Arezzo and Urbino, then settled down to spend his last 14 years in his native town compiling two mathematical treatises. Latterday Sansepolcrans prided themselves on owning three of Piero's major works, and kept alive the hope that more would one day come to light...
...selflessness triumphing over the bloody tyrant Nicolaio, and causing him to lift his siege of the city of Viterbo in a sequence filled with fire and spectacle. The picture ends with Francis and his disciples going forth separately into the world to preach peace-to Siena, Florence, Arezzo, Pisa and Spoleto...