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Quatrain IX-95
Le nouveau fait conduira l'exercite,
Proche apamé jusqu'auprès du rivage:
Tendant secours de Millanoise eslite,
Duc yeux privé à Milan fer de cage.
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The new feat of arms will take the army,
On the beach near Calabria :
Looking for help from the elite of Milan
The duke dead, in Milan metal cage.
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Quatrain V-1
Avant venue de ruine Celtique,
Dedans le temple deux parlementeront.
Poignard coeur, d'un monté au coursier et pique,
Sans faire bruit le grand enterreront
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Before the defeat of the Germans,
In the temple two will argue things over
Dagger heart, of one with a pike on a charger,
Without a sound the great will be buried.
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History
In 1945, shortly before german capitulation, such a meeting occurred in the archbishopric of Milan: the last recourse of Mussolini: his old friend, cardinal Ildefonso Schuster:
[P.417] Mussolini is scared. March 13, six days after a redondant speech to the officers, his son, Vittorio leaves for Milan. He is going to meet cardinal Ildefonso Schuster [L'élite de Milan], who once compared Mussolini to roman emperors. The cardinal... receives Vittorio who hands over a document: -- Proposition of talks.--
Thus, on the 16, Mussolini leaves for Milan. He settles in the police headquarters and accepts a proposition to meet with the Resistance at the archbishpric:
Musolini has total faith in cardinal Schuster, the archbishop of Milan, and, since the Comité de Libération Nationale [National Liberation Commitee] has its seat in town, a last minute negociation is always possible...
...Mussolini arrives at the archbishopric [dedans le temple], Piazza Fontana. He is alone with the cardinal. The man of the Church gives favorable consideration to his case and the two men chat for more than an hour [deux parlementeront]
'Thus you intend to continue the war in the mountains, asks the cardinal.
'A little more and then I will surrender'.
[L'Italie de Mussolini, Max Gallo]
However, refusing an inconditional surrender, Mussolini leaves empty-handed and, accompanied by ten motor cars filled with associates and close relatives, the Duce starts off again in the night bound for his tragic destiny.