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PRINCESS VIRGINIA 6 - 7
poison darts at the political classes, attracting their
dislike, when she had found out that a disused sugar
factory just a hundred and thirty-seven metres away
was to become a polluting biomass power station.
Situated near the banks of the Lamone river, and once
considered the little Versailles of Romagna, Palazzo
San Giacomo now languished after being bombed
during the last war and then plundered of its statues
and daubed with paint. What remained of the original
architectural structure and the noteworthy series
of seventeenth century mythological frescoes should
have been preserved as a testimony to consummate
skill. So it was with good reason that Virginia feared
that the noise and fine dust from the future biomass
power station would have inflicted incurable damage
not only on the monument, but also on this corner of
Paradise where one could go for walks or bicycle rides
in the shadow of history.
Venus, the goddess of beauty and love, could not allow
man to be robbed of such a treasure. Irma, unlike her
friend, was a practical forty year-old who had steeled
herself against dreaming. Was it worth it in Italy? She
believed that Princess Virginia would soon get herself
into trouble. She worried about her safety. She warned