FABIO NEGRO from “That Presepe is full of World- Famous Faces” an article sent from Rome for “La Nazione” on Dec. 27, 1983.
“The meeting between Reagan and Andropov, a discussion at the top level between the two most powerful countries in a much desired international diplomatic encounter- an event which has been proposed by many but which has never actually happened ( also because of recent news of the declining health of the Kremlin leader)-is finally taking place in Rome, in a church a few steps from Palazzo Chigi, with the blessings of Italian President Pertini!
Ofcourse, Reagan, Andropov, and Pertini, and many, many other European and world-leaders, are not really present in flesh and blood, but are simply a few of the many sculpted characters of a presepe which the sculptress, Yvonne DiPalma has prepared and presented with a Florentine Studio which designed all of the theatrical scenery...”