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Directed by BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI Screenplay by BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, EDOARDO DE GREGORI and MARILU PAVOLINI...
...Major William Holohan, American OSS officer (TIME, Aug. 27). In the northeast, around Udine in the province of Friuli, the Communist Garibaldi brigade and the non-Communist Osoppo brigade had been fighting as one division. The Osoppos were commanded by a tough regular army officer named Francesco de Gregori, whose nom de guerre was Bolla ("Bubble"). In the autumn of 1944 Bolla discovered that the Garibaldis were playing footie with Yugoslav Communists, and were more interested in grabbing chunks of Italian territory for Tito than fighting the common enemy. When Bella's division commander, a Communist, ordered the division...
...Really Safe Place." Devout Orvietan women began to show alarm. They were further stirred up when Mayor Gregori enlarged upon the dangers of travel, how shaking might crack the reliquary's enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori...
...halls of the ancient Town Council, Mayor Gregori was heard to say that 35 Popes had come to Orvieto to see the corporal. Now it was the corporal, Christ's blood, that was going to a Pope in Rome. "Yes," said Mayor Gregori, "everything is more democratic today. We can only rejoice at that...
...Mayor Gregori of Orvieto was not present...