Word: bartoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize involved in the diplomatic triumph. With top aides from the Rome embassy, she landed at Gorizia Airfield, proceeded by motorcade some 25 miles to the city of Trieste, where waiting citizens waved a welcome and tossed flowers to her. At city hall, she returned to Mayor Gianni Bartoli the 600-year-old manuscript of Italian Poet Francesco Petrarch's Africa, which had vanished from a Naples exhibition in 1940, was picked up by a U.S. soldier during World War II. Said the U.S. ambassador: "We Americans are [happy] that an infinitely more precious Italian possession, the city...