Word: ludovico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, 85, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, hereditary "Marshal of the Conclave" at which Popes are elected, dabbler in science (he was an expert on marine worms); of angina pectoris; in Rome...
Knife-nosed Ludovico Monti was a dedicated man. The most energetic news vendor in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence, he had been offered the local agency for many daily papers. But, with the support of his pretty wife Armida, Monti was determined to sell only Unita, the Communist paper which commanded all his faith and ambition...
...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...