Year 2001The castles included in Abruzzo are l' Aquila, Celano, Gagliano Aterno, Pettorano sul Gizio and Capestrano.
4 May/maggio 2001
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Sulmona - Solemn funeral for Cosimo the tramp / Funerali in cattedrale per Cosimo il barbone, by Sante Iavarone
Yesterday at 19.00 in Saint Giles, Edinburgh, la great ceremony to say farewell to the gentleman tramp from Sulmona. Cosimo Presutti was known and respected by everybody. The BBC yesterday aired a special on his story. To the funeral also city mayor Eric Millighan. Cosimo Presutti was killed by a pirate driver. His body will be transferred to Italy and buried in the family chapel.
4 May/maggio 2001
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A writer and his roots / Lo scrittore e la forza, by Enno Flaiano
Late writer, journalist and script-writer Ennio Flaiano speaks, in a letter dated 1971, to publisher Scarpitti of his ties to his native land, where he was born in 1910. The whole letter is reproduced in the article.
4 May/maggio 2001
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Flaiano's relationship with Abruzzo / Il rapporto conflittuale tra l'autore e l'Abruzzo, by Paolo Di Vincenzo
Flaiano's relationship with Abruzzo was greatly contradictory. He lived in Pescara only a few years , in 1920 was in school in Rome, in 1942 his only daughter was born: Luisa. the baby was infected with acute encephalithic disease, and lived in a clinic until gher death in 1992.
His widow, Rosetta Rota, spoke for the first time on 19 November 2000 of his relationship with pescara and Abruzzo.