Word: vallombrosa
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...letter came from him; after two years, word reached Alba that he was dead. "I thought I would go mad," she says. Instead, she went to Florence and joined a strict cloistered order, the Benedictines of Vallombrosa. After a seven-year novitiate, she took her "perpetual" vows in 1950. The same year, she had a visit from a thin man who had suffered much-Rinaldo...
Sirs: Allow me to reply to L. de Vallombrosa & Evelyne Greig (TIME'S Letters, Dec. 16). I am a French Republican & that means, for the Republic. My politics are those of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Clemenceau, Poincaire & Doumergue. As a Republican I denounce your Croix de Feu & all other parties of the Right. France has soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies...
...Italian and German as compared with the despondent, anxious and embittered attitude of their own countrymen. But they refuse to be identified with "fascism" in the generally accepted meaning of that word since they are opposed to many of the fascist principles, beginning with the totalitarian state. . . . L. DE VALLOMBROSA Paris, France...
...Scroll of history is replete with stories that stir the heart and fire the naggination. Sagas of the rise and fall of nations like the total annihilation of Carthage in a single month, or the great movement that started from the cave of Vallombrosa to carry out its dream and build, after ten centuries, the world-wide Spanish Empire, are truly Homeric in their subject matter. But few tales are more magnificent than that of the phenix of a free united Italy, rising from the ashes of the fires of revolution that had swept the peninsula so long...
UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS-Anonymous - Lippincott - ($4.50). Degrees of anonymity are as thick as the classic leaves that strewed the brooks in Vallombrosa. Some authors veil their names for a variety of excellent reasons, among which is, probably the most frequent, the desire to increase a book's circulation by preying on the public curiosity. Other authors have less excellent motives, and sometimes don the domino of anonymity solely for protection...
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