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...Luigi Pirandello
Italian Communist leaders in the past have made obeisances toward the church, but never to the extent that Berlinguer has His extraordinary statement was prompted by Bishop Luigi Bettazzi of Ivrea. After last year's national elections, in which the Communists increased their hold over the large city governments as well as 2,778 towns and villages, Bettazzi wrote an open letter to the secretary-general asking whether local Communist governments could be counted on to guarantee full respect for religion...
...Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, 67, who has been Paul's personal theologian since...
...electrician who worked for the union and made good money, but not good enough that he could throw it away on his son's snot-nosed college unless there was a damn good reasons. But there was a good reason. Carlo's father, a leathery-faced Sicilian immigrant named Luigi--call him Lou--wanted his son to grow up to be a cultured gentleman, to smoke cigars and read good books. Lou knew a lot about Harvard, he had seen the picture of the bell tower on the glossy catalogue cover, had read every Louis Auchincloss novel...
Japanese honor may be partially satisfied, but some Italians see the affair as an assault on their traditional humanism. Writing in Milan's Corriere della Sera, Essayist Luigi Compagnone jestingly defended the Cat and the Fox as "two small-time cheats, emeritus champions of the art of getting by," a talent that he says is attributed to the people of southern Italy. Japan, he added, is "a superindustrialized country, where the myths of superproduction have inserted themselves in the daily reality to the point of spasm. It does not know or accept anything but the frightening morality of integral efficiency...