Florence's stately Parco delle Cascine (Park of the Farmsteads) is full of quiet, ponderous chestnut trees and brooding live oaKs beneath which the members of the city's best society used to walk on Sunday afternoons, exchanging courtly salutes and smiling at one another's poodles. With their customary sense of historic irony, Italy's Communists last week chose this park for the biggest, gaudiest clambake that Dante's city had seen in many a year.
Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press....
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