"If I am asked where I spend the summer, I
answer quite simply:
- I spend it in Poveromo.
But not everyone is able to deal with the implication of such a name,
and a lot of people who have a house in Poveromo prefer to say that they live in
Ronchi."
In the 1930s, Alberto Savinio, brother of the better-known De Chirico, spoke ironically
about how the holiday-maker finds it difficult to state that he's staying in a place whose
name alludes to poverty...
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