Word: citorio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forester, saying that he needed it for examination fees at the University of Catania. For 3,500 lire (about $6) he bought a .38 pistol and five cartridges. Then he took a train to Rome, and there rented a room in a cheap boardinghouse. He went to the Monte Citorio Palace, where Italy's Parliament meets, and asked for a visitor's card from a Sicilian delegate, Francisco Turnaturi. (Later Turnaturi denied that he knew Pallante. "When he insisted he came from Randazzo, a place where I had many votes, I did what we all might have done...
Nervous excitement had swept the floor of the Palazzo Monte Citorio as the Assembly reached the Lateran question. Nobody but Togliatti and the Communists-and they were saving their surprise-was sure how the vote would divide. In the jammed public galleries there was a solemn checkerboard of Jesuit black, Franciscan brown, Dominican white-set off by the bright springtime pinks and blues of .snappily dressed women. The heads that craned forward were alternately tonsured and gaily feather-plumed...
...Rome's sweltering Monte Citorio Palace, where the Constituent Assembly met, the three parties refused to accept De Nicola's refusal. He was the one candidate for whom Christian Democrats, Socialists and Communists had agreed to vote together. Out of 504 valid votes, De Nicola...
Romans crowded the narrow streets near Monte Citorio palace, waiting for the republic to be proclaimed. In the Hall of the She-Wolf sat the highest court's 13 justices, Premier de Gasperi and his cabinet, the chiefs of the armed forces and other notables, including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people...
...rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days the Assembly would convene in Monte Citorio palace. As its members drafted a constitution for the new Italian republic, a tapestried legend on the wall would recall Italy's last king: PHARAO SUPERBUS ASCENDERE CUPIEBAT ET IN PROFUNDUM DESCENDIT QUASI LAPIS-Haughty Pharaoh craved the heights, but fell into the depths like a stone...