Old wartime buddies in the Italian underground, Subbiano's two top Communists made a fine team; tough Mayor Sabatino Cerofolino had the brawn and wily Party Secretary Italo Nofri had the brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own...
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