Word: valerio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liked our quarter," begins Valerio, the studious boy who tells the story. It was, he recalls, a place where everyone scrounged for an extra lira, where the houses rotted with age and children played on the stoops of brothels; yet Valerio and his pals, fired with adolescent hope and vanity, felt that somehow they would find life brighter than their beaten-down parents had managed...
...least as strong on sentiment as she was on sex. It was all very serious, of course, but also a little comic, and Pratolini does a neat job of simultaneously pitying and teasing his adolescents. He also succeeds in capturing the look of young love. "My companion," muses Valerio, "was a girl of 16, with a crown of golden hair, a shining innocent face; she wore green wool gloves and shoes with medium heels and knitted stockings that came to the hem of her coat, where her bare knees peeked out, a little purple from the cold...
...sword of Damocles hanging over our heads," moaned natty M.S.I. Chief Prince Valerio Borghese, and that is just what it is. For the moment, the government is content to let its bright new weapon hang for all to see. It let word leak out that next month's M.S.I, national convention would be permitted but carefully watched. Borghese sent word to the faithful to avoid the Fascist salute, the Fascist hymn and similar trappings...
Their party began to go places only after it found a glamorous front man: Prince Junio Valerio Borghese, 46, who bears one of Italy's most illustrious names (Borgheses have been popes, cardinals and generals). Prince Junio is one of the few authentic Italian heroes of World War II. He commanded the two-man submarines that crept into Alexandria Harbor one dark December night in 1941, blowing up H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth and H.M.S. Valiant and for a time paralyzing the British in the Mediterranean. When the beaten Mussolini fled to north Italy and founded his short-lived Fascist republic...
...Vatican Prelates Celso Costantini of Propaganda Fide, Alfredo Ottaviani of the Holy Office, and Valerio Valeri of the State Secretariat...