Word: garibaldis
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...autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...
...authority to join the Atlantic pact (he had still to win Senate approval). Togliatti bawled: "You will have to reckon with the Italian people!" Fellow Traveler Nenni echoed: "The fight has just begun!" Government supporters triumphantly sang the national anthem-"Brothers of Italy ... of Italy awakened." Marxists responded with Garibaldi's defiant old war chant-"Foreigners, get out of Italy...
Within days of liberation, partisans of the vicinity were first paraded, armed, with music and flags, before Allied officers, in each provincial capital and sizable town. At the end of the parade route were placed several empty army trucks, and some spielers who continuously plugged the example of Garibaldi in discarding his gun and returning to the plow when his work as a soldier was done...
...Reds were replying, to Christians who would listen, that they were not atheists at all. They had all but dropped the hammer & sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...
Miracles were being reported all over Italy. Despite discouragement by Church authorities, 60,000 pilgrims poured into Assisi to be cured by the "breathing" Madonna atop the cathedral. Communists, scenting propaganda, countered with reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...