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...Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies...
Twist in Moscow. One day, a fellow prisoner from Mongolia approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy...
...Pietro Leoni's ordeal ended because of one of those sudden, capricious twists with which Moscow pushes people toward death or away from it. As part of their approaching peace offensive, the Russians decided last April to send Prisoner Leoni home. Since then, he has had a reunion with his 84-year-old mother, his four brothers and sisters. He has been caught up in radio broadcasts, interviews, medical examinations. His missionary spirit is undimmed. Said Father Leoni last week: "Naturally, I am happy to be back in my dear, free Italy, but I do not regret the terrible...