Word: pietropaolis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Innocenzo Pietropaoli fed himself and his wife Natalina and his daughter Maria by tilling his acre of land at Anticoli Corrado, a mountain village 35 miles north of Rome. Even in the remote and incredibly rich days of 1938, its produce (half of which went to the landlord) had to be carefully husbanded to feed the Pietropaolis...
...time the armistice sent Innocenzo home again (and cut off the allotment), the neglected farm yielded only enough for his wife and the children. They ate figs, chicory weeds, green apples, and frogs caught in the ditches. For the first time in his life, the peasant Innocenzo Pietropaoli went begging. In the fall he got a job as a harvester on another man's farm. His wife walked behind him, gleaning stray ears of wheat (eleven pounds...
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