Figure 1.-- Rome is a very modern city complete with a subway. One did not have to go very far east from Rome to go back in time. Muc has changed in recent years. While many of the villages have much the same look as they did earlier, the peiople for the most part have entered the modern world. The gap between life styles betweem Rome and villages has significantly closed. This was not the case before World war II. A reader tells us about Pescina, a village in the mountains of central Italy. Famed French Cardinal Jule Mazarin was born there (1602). Also the Italian writer Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) was born in Pescina. We note a 1930s snapshot showing a poor mother with her children.

Rome is a very modern city complete with a subway. One did not have to go very far east from Rome to go back in time. Muc has changed in recent years. While many of the villages have much the same look as they did earlier, the people for the most part have entered the modern world. The gap between life styles betweem Rome and villages has significantly closed. This was not the case before World War II. A reader tells us about Pescina, a village in the mountains of central Italy. Famed French Cardinal Jule Mazarin was born there (1602). Also the Italian writer Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) was born in Pescina. We note a 1930s snapshot showing a poor mother with her children. Note the one boy's stocking cap. We are not sure how common that was at the time. An Italian reader tells us, "Giulio Raimondo Mazarino became French with the name of Jule Mazarin. He belonged to an aristocratic family of the Papal States. Pescina was, however, at the time part of the Kingdom of Naples. The photo shows that, at the time, for poor children, it was quite common to go unclothed in public." It is difficult to draw a dfinitive line as to central Italy. Naples is associated with southern Italy, but over time the boundaries of Naples changed. Pescina is located so that could be swescribed as part of southern central Italy or northern southern Italy.

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