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''...to neglect
your respectable engagements
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and to be here with us,
remembering and celebrating
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one of the many children
that this generous land
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gave to the world
of culture and art.
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Rodolfo Guglielmi,
a son of this land... ''
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We are at Castellaneta,
in the province of Taranto,
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where Mister Semeraro,
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vice minister
of the cultural affairs,
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is commemorating the honorable
citizen Rodolfo Guglielmi,
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son of the late Giovanni
and Gabriella Barbi,
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born here on May 6, 1895,
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who died in America
on August 15, 1926.
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''...But his persistence,
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his energetic nature,
prevailed and captured
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the attention of those who
worked in the movie industry
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then starting to come to life.
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...his path was not spread
with roses,
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but there were thorns,
and many of them.
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The Latin actors were given
the most hateful roles: