Word: marcovaldi
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Soon two angry factions faced each other in the square. The coffee-house owners hastily cleared the tables. This gave watching Mayor Cavaliere Giovanni Marcovaldi, who is stone deaf, an inkling of what was going on. His paunch protruding majestically, he carried himself to the middle of the square like a ship in full sail and shouted: "Children, children, don't let's be children. You are citizens. If you have a disagreement, appoint a committee. Don't make Fiumicino the laughing stock of the countryside...