He couldn't weather the Australian weather
It is raining and cloud cover is low the afternoon I arrive at the home of Rocco Antonio Aieta and his wife Francesca in the picturesque Basilicata village of Montemurro.
Overlooking the sprawling valley below, Montemurro is one of many similar centuries-old villages along with Spinoso, Viggiano, Marsicovetere and others that dot the region. I have driven here through lush farmland that lately nestles conspicuously against land left barren by the now decades-long drilling for oil that has brought both much-needed income and yet dire ecological strain to the area.
It is raining and cloud cover is low the afternoon I arrive at the home of Rocco Antonio Aieta and his wife Francesca in the picturesque Basilicata village of Montemurro.
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