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Miracle in Milan might seem like a humorous bit of Communist propaganda, if it were not for all the supernatural. Its characters are takeoffs on a decadent capitalistic population. The rich industrialists are all bleated and jewlish, which the proletariat is grubby but unbowed, dancing around junk heaps with fixed, there fund smiles. As party line literature, it runs close in the line, until the end, when capitalism bows not to strength and indignation but to an unprepossessing miracle maker...
...probable that everyone who sees Vittorio De Sica's will reach for some symbolic meaning, but I doubt there really is one. Miracle in Milan is a modern fairy tale, no more. The evil tycoons and down trodden mass are simplifications made for the sake of fantasy rather than ideology. Its hero, a poor, virtuous boy, could easily be Jack the Giant Killer or Aladdin with a magic lamp (though in this case it is a dove...
...village secretary, also on the list, railed at the Italian mainland press for its sensational scare stories on the Orgo-solo killings. "It's high time to stop telling fairy tales. People shoot and kill in Milan too," he scolded. A bullet through the head put a stop to his complaints...
Last week the Pietà was moved to Rome's Borghese Gallery for a month's exhibit before being handed over to its new owners: Milan's city fathers, who plan to show their prized Pietà in a special room of the city's Castello Sforzesco museum. The bargain price: 135 million lira (about $216,000). The Italian government had discouraged private buyers by ruling that the Pietà could not leave the country, and by reminding that any sale to new private owners inside Italy would fee subject...
Before 1943, he was the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded...