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(Parini, Il mezzogiorno, 250-52, da Il giorno)
Gli uomini eguali
©Edizioni Bietti 2005
 
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    Translation by
    Ken Sutherland (S.A.T.)




    Maurice Bignami

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    The Same Men
    1.
    Blue
    		 11
    2.

     
    A flag, a first of May
    Once upon a time in Bologna, there was a ghetto,
    some angry children and wretched forms of class struggle    		 15

     
    3.
     
    Pasta with beans
    Where he does military service and then leaves for Paris     		39
     
    4.

     
    Fire and flames
    Upon returning to Bologna
    he plays at Communists and ends up behind bar    		 57

     
    5.
    Green
    		 93
    6.

     
    Monsters, bedbugs and maybe chickens, too
    Why the devil behind bars is loathsome for how they make him look    		 97

     
    7.
     
    Race horses
    Whether fighting in bars has any political value    		 129
     
    8.
     
    Snap gauge
    How Spain dies and Germany snatches half of Europe    		 169

     
    9.
    Red
    		 195
    10.

         		 Tanks in the West
    Not forgetting Africa, Greece
    and the desire to have a family    		 199

     
    11.

         		 Snow
    Not forgetting, with the Don,
    the tenacity of both sides    		 227

     
    12.
         		 Between July and September
    Or rather, the joy of freedom to start over again    		 259

     
    13.
    Yellow
    		 279
    14.

         		 Down on the plains
    Being a partisan would be hard work if it weren’t for our friends    		 283

     
    15.
         		 Up in the mountains
    Incredible as it may seem    		 313
     
    16.
         		 Montefiorino
    While the Americans get involved and the Germans withstand    		 335

     
    17.
    Magenta
    		 373
    18.
         		 Mousetrap
    But victory, though earned by a few wretched souls, is all ours    		 377
     
    19.
         		 Dogs and wolves
    Prey and hunters between Modena and Bolonia    		 397
     
    20.
         		 Game over
    And they all lived happily ever after; some more, some less    		 433
     
    21.
    Cyan
    		 457

    Apendix
    Short note & Thanks 463
    Biografy of Maurice Bignami
    		 465
    Biografy of Torquato Nino Bignami
    		 471

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