Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He discovered that her name was Angela Mondini and that she too lived in Cremona, across the Po River from his café. Plunging wholeheartedly into the timeless rituals of Lombard courtship, Francesco promenaded beneath her window, cultivated her friends and relatives, encountered her "by chance" when she went strolling...
The Blinders. Francesco shifted his assault to her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. "I'm well off," he said. "I have a good character. Angela will be happy with me." Sadly, Angela's relatives reported: "She isn't interested. She doesn't like you." But...
For years, Francesco appeared nightly under her window, plaintively calling her name. He spent daylight hours in a nearby café, waiting for a glimpse of her. He followed her to the movies and sat behind her. His friends became worried that desperate Francesco might do something foolish, and begged...
An Italian magazine, Oggi, picked up the story of Francesco's 24 years of forlorn wooing, and sudden notoriety succeeded where all the years of defeat had not. Last week Francesco, 49, wrote a letter to the editor confessing that at long last "I have given up, because with...
The Monat family took the 11:32 p.m. Warsaw-Vienna express, sped through southern Poland and Czechoslovakia during the night, entered Austria at the tiny border town of Bernhardsthal. Since the Monats were traveling on diplomatic passports, Austrian customs of cials merely passed them by. Arriving at Vienna's...