Word: levies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer day in 1935, in the little village of Gagliano, Fascist guards took the handcuffs off bullheaded Painter Carlo Levi's wrists and drove away. Levi's crime was anti-Fascist opinions. His sentence: three years' exile in southern Italy's barren, unhealthy province of Lucania...
...lodgings, shook their heads sympathetically. They pitied him for being out of civilized circulation; they and their forebears had lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...
...Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
Pigs & Guardian Angels. Exile Levi was not permitted by the local authorities to go beyond the village limits, to stay out after curfew, to speak to the few other political prisoners. But his sharp, painter's eye missed little in the shady, shadowy life of Gagliano...
...flocked to his door. In his youth he had taken a medical degree and still knew more about medicine than the aged, bored, local physician and the two half-educated druggist-sisters who filled prescriptions out of any old mixture of powders that happened to be in stock. Soon Levi had a large medical practice...