Word: mascali
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town of Mascali was practically obliterated. Burned, or buried were the fringes of Carrabba, Nunziata, Riposto...
Streams. The lava formed three main streams. One slid north-east over Nunziata, one east over Mascali to Carrabba, one southwards to Giarre and toward Catania...
...Mascali was most certainly the town which first would be obliterated. Here young peasant maids crossed themselves, paused a moment at the churches. Grandmothers, rich in ancient lore, retold tales. Enceladus, the Titan, was buried under Etna when he had dared to defy Zeus. Now and again he stirred in discomfort or anger. Hephaestus, god of fire and the metallic arts, had a smithy in Etna. He was fashioning terrible Olympian swords which his journeymen, the Cyclops, would deliver...
Clear headed peasants glanced anxiously at the sinister smoke-plume which rolled upward from Etna's crater, and darkened the sky over Mascali...
...Mascali at the time of its destruction was Signor Giovanni Giurati, Minister of Public Works. His valises packed, he was quite prepared to leave the no longer pleasant island of Sicily. But a telegram from Il Duce informed him that he must direct the work of salvage. Efficiently Signor Giurati assumed the role of St. George, valiantly and often vainly fought the dragon with dynamite...