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an evocatively frozen-in-time city , ratifying its ultimate economic and cultural rebirth after its dark and disgraced past .
In 1945 , with the publishing of “ Le Christ s ' est arrêté à Éboli ” by Carlo Levi , public opinion was wildly outraged by the third world situation of southern Italy ’ s farmers , especially for the twenty thousand inhabitants of Matera who were living in caves without windows , in which large
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