Word: monti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alps. To the west, American Negro troops of the 92nd Division clawed their way up the southeast slopes of the Monti Pisani, overlooking Pisa. On their left, A.J.A.s (Americans of Japanese ancestry) toiled up the south west slopes. The Germans pulled out in a hurry from Pisa, where they had been ensconced for weeks in the northern section while Americans held the southern...
...heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape of a ship, and flower stalls packed with daffodils and mimosa. Sometimes Keats walked. Sometimes he puzzled over books in Italian. Sometimes he wrote to Fanny Brawne (the flirtatious girl he loved) or about her. Sometimes he talked about his unfinished work, said...
Died. Donna Erminia Monti De Bono, wife of Marshal Emilio De Bono, Fascist Party veteran; in Rome...