Word: fabbricottis
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Guido Murray Fabbricotti (Commendatore della Corona d'Ttalia, Centauro of the Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
...centuries, marble and Carrara have been synonymous in the hills of Italy's Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head...
Since that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...
Last week, as every week, Quarryman Guido Murray Fabbricotti, 63, dignified, solemn, rose at 4:30, went ahorseback to his quarries. The early hour results from two factors. The quarries are quick to heat, and work is hard after the 10 a. m. sun begins to burn. And Quarryman Guido Murray Fabbricotti is not wholly Latin. His indolent Italian temperament is pricked into action by the Scottish blood of his mother. Guide's father, Bernardo Fabbricotti, 64 years ago, married Helen Murray, a Scotch noblewoman of sorts. Son Guido inherited the quarries of his father and the early rising...
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