Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victories in municipal elections. Such cities as Sofia and Bucharest and Belgrade have always seemed to be on the other side of the moon. But the Red Flag flies also over cities that hold the West's most poignant memories: Virgil's Mantua, Ambrose's Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...
Lieut. General Sir Richard L. McCreery's Eighth Army, working the Adriatic coast, captured Ferrara and Padua, "the city of millionaires." With the 56th (London) Division in the van they entered historic Venice. Other units sped on to block the Udine and Belluno escape routes through the Tirolean Alps...
...Germans tried only to get away. Near Ferrara they abandoned more than 1,000 fuel-starved motor vehicles and fled on foot. At other places they harnessed up horses, oxen, cows and even human beings to move heavy equipment...
Perhaps as he began his last journey, he remembered the two epitaphs he had seen at Ferrara on another journey and whose "modesty" he had found "deeply moving": Said one: Martini Luigi...