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...Jack with a Valium temperment. Robertc Benigni starts out as a Chico Marx knock-off with a fondness for "famous American poet Bob Frost," but his character grows into the most capable and sympathetic of the trio, winning the hearts of both the audience and the beautiful Nicoletta (Nicoletta Braschi...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 10/10/1986 | See Source »

Bern relayed a story that the Germans may have found Benito Mussolini in the Braschi Fortress outside Rome. The Daily Mail said that the ex-Duce had been trans ported to the Ponza Islands, a volcanic cluster in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Ostia and Naples. War Correspondent John Steinbeck had a similar story. He had gone with an Allied landing party to Ventotene Island, one of the Ponza group. Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Escape from Ponza? | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...uncomfortable Braschi Fortress outside Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Where is Toad? | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...courtyard of Fort Braschi at dawn Ugo Traviglia was marched before a firing squad. Dramatically he begged his executioners' pardon, asked to be shot in the breast, facing the rifles with his eyes unbound. It was not granted. Ugo Traviglia was blindfolded, shot in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ugo & Camilla | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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