He was an Italian, from dirt-poor Emilia-Romagna, who followed his family to France to find work.
In May, the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy was shocked by two significant earthquakes, just 9 days apart.
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Mr Ponticelli was born on 7 December 1897 in Emilia Romagna, northern Italy.
Emilia-Romagna has the unique distinction of being the breadbasket of Italy, and arguably the single most important gourmet food production region in the world.
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If there is an Italian product you would go to a gourmet store to buy, there is a high likelihood it comes from Emilia-Romagna.
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Mr Veltroni was particularly shaken last week, when his party colleague in charge of the regional government in Emilia-Romagna, a bastion of the left, defected to Mr Prodi.
And finally, a regional councillor for the movement in Emilia Romagna was filmed complaining of a lack of internal democracy and depicting Mr Casaleggio as a shadowy, ruthless manipulator.
SASSUOLO, Italy The town of Sassuolo, best known for its ceramic tiles, is a place in the Emilia-Romagna region so small that the professional soccer team here can't even use its own stadium.
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The quakes were strong enough to be felt in Milan, which is about 200 kilometers 125 miles from Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, prompting schools and government buildings to be evacuated.
Run by former Australian road cycling champion Wayne Hibberd, it is modelled on Italy's cycling-specific Hotel Dory in the Emilia-Romagna region , and features the likes of bike storage, racks and tyre pumps.
The Communist Party folded at the end of the Cold War but Bersani continued his way up the ranks in the leftist parties that followed, becoming the president of the Emilia-Romagna regional council in 1993.
Vanessa's stuffed zucchini with meatballs evoked memories of how her own Italian grandmother used to cook, while my freshly made rigatoni with a white ragout of small sausage meatballs, cannellini beans and rosemary was by far the most memorable pasta experience I had in Emilia-Romagna.
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