Word: della
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martyrs & Mistresses. Qualunquist deputies of strident Journalist Guglielmo Giannini's party shouted "Amen" and "Hooray." The Socialists cried: "Coercion . . . ecclesiastical oppression." Italy's outstanding Jewish figure, grey-bearded, shambling, 67-year-old Republican Deputy Ugo Della Seta-his whole body trembling with indignation, his-hands wildly clutching the air-shrilled: "Remember those non-Catholics who fought and died . . . who were martyred in the Ardeatine Caves! It is un-Christian to place religious minorities in a status of inferiority...
Last week he characterized himself: "I am a common man-uomo della strada. I am just another guy-uomo qualunque ... I hope a typical one. My job is not only to prevent the right and left wings from exercising undue influence on the Government, but I have to think too of the enormous masses of peasants sweating in the fields under the sun, blacksmiths beating their anvils in villages, workers, men and women everywhere who have no taste for politics and are outside parties. ... I am just a uomo della strada...
...Rome's dank Palazzo della Sapienza (Palace of Wisdom), the High Court for Punishment of Fascist Crimes weighed the fate of ailing General Mario Roatta...
Ambassador Tarchiani, 59, was once one of Italy's great journalists: managing editor of Milan's Corriere della Sera. In 1925, at the height of his career, when Mussolini muzzled the press, he went into exile. After 15 years in Paris, writing anti-Fascist pamphlets, aiding in the escape of other antiFascists from Italy, he came to the U.S. Along with Count Carlo Sforza, he was one of the first of the exiles to go back to Italy after the Allied invasion...
...risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci...