And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
On 8 August 1926, in the villa of Luigi Pirandello, near Sant'Agnese, Massimo Bontempelli challenged Giuseppe Ungaretti to a duel, to resolve a controversy that arose in the Roman newspaper Il Tevere: Ungaretti was slightly wounded in the right arm and the duel ended with a reconciliation.
Looks like me trying to fly fish last weekend.
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ReplyDeleteOn 8 August 1926, in the villa of Luigi Pirandello, near Sant'Agnese, Massimo Bontempelli challenged Giuseppe Ungaretti to a duel, to resolve a controversy that arose in the Roman newspaper Il Tevere: Ungaretti was slightly wounded in the right arm and the duel ended with a reconciliation.
There was Aldo Nadi. There was Giorgio Santelli vs Contronei.
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