Word: chiara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naples, the Santa Chiara Church (two stars) was badly burned, but 14th-Century frescoes were discovered when the 18th-Century decorations peeled off the walls...
...wiped out or ruined. But in view of the ferocity of the Italian campaign, the damage was remarkably small. Few irreplaceable buildings were destroyed in Apulia or Calabria. Farther north the destruction was greater. Among the monuments completely demolished were: the 12th-Century cathedral at Benevento; Naples' Santa Chiara Church-the finest Gothic church in the city; the Church of the Incoronata, at Naples, which contained frescoes of the Sienese School...
With Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Francesco Pricolo, Benito Mussolini flew at once to Pisa. There, being Duce as well as padre, he marched in stately review, head high, past the pilots and ground crews of San Giusto. Then he went to Santa Chiara Hospital, and stood a long time beside the boy's body...