Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the land that he does work, Berlingieri-like most of Italy's other larger landowners-follows an ancient ruinous practice: he raises two wheat crops in succession, and turns the produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants...
This year, as the autumn sowing season arrived, Melissa's gaunt people turned hungry eyes on one of Berlingieri's idle hilltops. One foggy morning 300 of them went up with axes and picks. The carabinieri soon arrived. In the battle that followed, three of the squatters were...
The Rape of the Land. This deep feeling for the soil is shared by many Italian landowners who work their land themselves, or treat their tenants as fellow owners. But under Italy's widespread system of absentee ownership, too many masters of the land rent it out for a...
Near Cutro, a peasant paused behind his plow and explained how the system works: "This land belongs to the heirs of the noble Filippo Albani. They live far from Calabria. Cavaliere Francesco Cosentino rents land from them. He is a wealthy gentleman who sits in an armchair in Crotone. When...
Wealthy Francesco Cosentino, in his armchair in Crotone, agreed with his tenant. "We follow a system which amounts to rape of the land. We are no careful husbandmen-not husbands but rapists."