Word: francesco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel. Its narrator, Ugo Cardinal Galeotti, is an urbane Vatican veteran who enjoys fine wine and good company. He possesses a thoughtful spiritual vision as well, and it is through his eyes that the reader is led along on Declan Walsh's odyssey of the soul as Pope Francesco...
...Francesco Quartet--Kirkland House...
...Francesco Rosi's brilliant political thriller Illustrious Corpses, deals quite well with this rather complicated subject of Italian political turmoil. The film's theme of political assassination and a growing police state conjures up frightening Orwellian visions of Big Brother-type repression. It is even more eerily prophetic as it was made in 1975, before the Moro killing and more compelling than The Parallax View (an American film with the same theme of assassination) as it probably reflects a greater measure of reality...
Less than a month after Renato Curcio, founder of Italy's notorious Red Brigades, and 45 other defendants were brought to trial in Turin in 1976 on charges of subversion and other crimes, Genoa Chief Prosecutor Francesco Coco was gunned down. One of the defendants announced in court that the murder was committed by brigatisti, and the trial was postponed. Then, shortly before the court was to convene again a year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings...
That chilling statement at the end of the Red Brigades' "Communiqué No. 9" hit Rome like a thunderclap. Premier Giulio Andreotti interrupted a meeting with government economic experts to confer with Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga. Benigno Zaccagnini, secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, delayed a projected campaign trip for the May 14 local elections and rushed to the party headquarters in the Piazza del Gesu. In the Senate, where a debate on a bill to legalize abortion had just ended, Senators milled around in the corridors asking for the latest news. The President of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani...