Word: matteo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Angelo is a blond four-year-old mulatto--a present from an American G.I. to an Italian married woman. The G.I. is killed during the war and the mother dies in childbirth. Matteo, the woman's husband, returns after five years in jail to find himself the negro child's legal father...
...Matteo's initial reaction to Angelo is disgust and repulsion; he tries to prove that his wife committed adultery, and that therefore he is not legally responsible for the child. But an old cynical lawyer tells him that before God the mulatto is his equal, and before...