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...Tooling toward Rome, a truck driver from the town of Poggibonsi suddenly realizes he has forgotten his driver's license. Che male fortuna, it's in his pants pocket at home. So he whirls the truck around and heads back. When he rings the doorbell, his wife leans out the window. "What's wrong, mio caro?" she asks sweetly. "I forgot my license." "Wait, I'll throw it down to you," she chirps. Back on the road to Rome, the truck driver is stopped by the police for a routine check. The driver's license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: A Matter of Blood | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...their right the French troops won Poggibonsi (pronounced Poe-je-bon-see), junction of five important roads, out flanked the German defenders and battered toward Florence, 22 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: To The Line | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Near Poggibonsi the French also captured, virtually unharmed, one of the delights of medievalists - the town of San Gimignano "of the beautiful towers." The allied Control Commission had proclaimed the town a protected monument "of the first artistic and historical importance"; it was carefully outflanked and spared direct assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: To The Line | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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