Word: lire
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...time Coriddi persuaded the new Christian Democratic government to put up 26 million lire to build a pipeline to Rocca Massima, whose people since the time of the Caesars had fetched water in copper vessels from three miles away in the vale of "La Femmina Morta" (the Dead Woman...
Last week Blacksmith Cianfone decided he had had enough. He had spent 30,000 lire of his own hard-earned money in fruitless visits to provincial party headquarters. In his forge he quietly burned a stack of confidential party documents. Then he summoned friend Coriddi, presented him with the party effects, including a cash book that showed a balance of 27 lire (about 4?). Coriddi agreed to offer membership in the local Christian Democratic section to the remaining 53 Communist Party members...
...months went by and the money owed by Monti on papers consigned to him mounted to 50,000 lire (about $80), party headquarters grew worried, then angry. Finally the party told him he must pay up. Ludovico ran all over town trying to borrow money; he even tried to borrow from the priest. Last week Ludovico Monti was finally expelled from the Communist Party for mishandling of funds...
...cage the blackbird sat motionless, silent and weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...
...last week the question of selling the Pieta had become a national issue. Newspapers and radio comedians took it up. Thirty-five country schoolchildren in northern Italy had contributed 500 lire (90?) "towards a national fund wherewith to purchase the Pieta." But so far the best offers were a paltry $90,000 from the Italian government, $400,000 from a Milanese industrialist who hoped to place the Pieta over Michelangelo's tomb in Florence's Church of Santa Croce, but only if he could get the statue taxfree...