Word: trinita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' undiminished self-assurance was perhaps best illustrated by an election-day incident. In the Piazza della Trinita de' Monti, a Communist pollwatcher protested against a reproduction of Leonardo's Last Supper on the walls of the voting room. This picture, he said, was a violation of the rule against electoral propaganda at the polls. The picture was removed...
...suffering was unbearable. "He 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...