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Kcceived Mondav, S.50 p.m. N 1-:\V VOKK, Jan. 0. An Ainerieati sohlier who nnknowiug1 • liought a privelcss msiuuscript in haiy in 1943 for £2:> for two cartons of ■•ignret tes today sent it back to Ihe, •iwni'rs. The mamiscript is a copy of ; I'ot run-h 's ■■ ' Affi;a '£ copied konic. t.img j afiei-' his dcalli 4ri^37-A( 1'i't rai i-ll, great 1.1 illian poei /was blu^l:u A rezzo in 1304.; Walter Rechsteiner, aged 25, former : United States airborne Irooper, bought ; ilie manuscript from an elderly Italian who, ajijiarent lv, had stolen it from tlie Triesie Librai-y. Rechsteiner carried tio- volluni-bound voluiue in liis knap-sai-k iiuring a glider landing in Fraiu'c ui:i tl.en through tlie Baltle of tlie Bu'ge i i. the iinasion of Uurojte. Aiier hi« relurned from the war Ite took :ii> nianusi-ript to Uornell Uni- i veisiiy. v.iicre experts idenlilied it. The uni\ersitv notilted tlie Triesie' Libraiv. Rechsti'iiier today gave the manuscript to tlie vaptaiu of the Italian liner \ ulcania, who was acting as 1 agent for the lilii-ary.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 5
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