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Hawk-nosed Gaetano Marzotto, Count of Valdagno and Castelvecchio, scion of a long line of Italian textile men, hopped into his Lancia one day in 1949 and headed south through the boot of Italy for a vacation. When night fell, the count stopped at one bug-ridden hotel after another, looking for a place to sleep, but found them all booked solid. Marzotto finally slept in his car, woke up rumpled and resolved. He dashed back to Rome, called on President Einaudi and Premier de Gasperi, and asked: "Do you realize how much good tourist money Italy is losing...
...looked for a while as though his blooming artistic career might be cut cruelly short. His father, a poor tenant farmer, could not afford the $235, for tuition and expenses, to send Severino to art school in nearby Urbino (where Raphael was born in 1483). Rome Art Dealer Gaetano Chiurazzi, informed of Severino's plight, offered his gallery for a show of Severino's drawings plus a sampling of the most distinguished works of the Severino School, all proceeds to go to the artists to "study and grow...
...lone Italian admitted making more than $320,000. His stated income: $704,000. "Which millionaire was it who told the truth?" asked one Milan newspaper, amid a nationwide chorus of cynical snorts and chuckles. With the persistence of Diogenes, newsmen finally identified the tower of honesty as Textile Manufacturer Gaetano Marzotto. Rome's // Tempo facetiously urged that statues "be erected to him and piazzas named in his honor...
...wrote Archbishop Gaetano Pollio, a slim, scholastic man with a black goatee. He saw the danger coming, but he would not leave his see of Kaifeng, in Honan. Nor would he have any truck with the bogus Catholic Church which the Communists were trying to set up. He prayed, he waited, he stayed...
...affairs of the Chinese government." The "people" were "demanding" his expulsion. It might not be long before Nuncio Riberi was escorted to the border, to join the swelling crowd of missionary priests and nuns being exiled by way of Hong Kong. Most notable recent exile was Bishop Gaetano Mignani, vicar apostolic of Kian in Kiangsi, deported for allowing the publication of two pamphlets exposing the government drive...