Word: galletti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World War II, and from one poor woman came a single copper coin. Sculptor Guido Galletti, 61, labored for nearly a year to model and cast a figure eight feet tall to stand on a pedestal ten feet high...
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