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Rome in the 1970's

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Nancy Harmon Jenkins
Jul 19, 2023
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Palazzo Taverna, entrance (back in the day anyone could walk in, no longer)

For five years in the 1970’s I lived in a palazzo, a palace, in the heart of Rome. This was the time Italians refer to as the anni di piombo, the years of lead, when right and left extremist factions did battle all over the country, years of violence, of wailing sirens in the mid…

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