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Miracle in Milan. A comic masterpiece of fantasy by Italy's Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica (TIME...
Vengeance, Fate, Evil. The betrothed of Manzoni's title are two young Italian peasants, Renzo and Lucia, who lived near Milan in the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In the very choice of such a hero & heroine, Manzoni kicked over the elegant traces that had bound Italian writers to the creaky old chariot of classicism. Free of that dead weight, his story tears off on a wild, romantic ride...
...marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover, who in turn delivers...
...Giovanni Pauletta was head of all microbiological research at Carlo Erba, Milan's big chemical-pharmaceutical company. Recognized as one of Italy's topflight microbiologists, he was one of the first to study penicillin mold in Italy, had written widely on antibiotics. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues also knew him as a dedicated and fearless experimenter who had used himself as a guinea pig hundreds of times. But the doctor never talked much about his experiments. "He was a very modest man," his colleagues said...
Miracle in Milan. A warm, richly comic fantasy by Italy's Vittorio de Sica (TIME...