Word: carettoni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pays the doctor? Such was the damage to the Colosseum and the nearby Forum in last month's swamping rains that Gian Filippo Carettoni, Rome's superintendent of antiquities, estimates cost of the immediate restoration of the Colosseum at $430,000 and, of the crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped...
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