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...Known. As one result of the Italian practice of "stable concubinage," the registration papers of at least a million Italian children were marked with an "N.N." (for Nemini Notus, meaning roughly "Not known to anyone") that stamped the children for life. Finally a law was passed in 1955 erasing the demeaning stamp from every bastard's official documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestic Relations: Concubinage--Italian Style | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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