Word: cellari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House chanted: "Where...
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