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Mimo Lella is Pino’s outgoing and competitive younger brother. Shortly after the Allies begin bombing Milan, Mimo is sent to live with Father Re at Casa Alpina. After the Lellas’ home is destroyed, Pino is sent to live with his brother, and before long, both of them lead escort missions to help Jewish people escape to Switzerland. Although Pino eventually leaves Casa Alpina, Mimo stays and continues undertaking escort missions. Later, after Pino becomes Leyers’s driver, Mimo returns to Milan and tells his brother that he’s joining the partisans. Immediately afterwards, Mimo notices that Pino is carrying a swastika armband, so he screams at him and calls him a traitor. For much of the second half of the novel, Mimo and Pino don’t talk to one another because Pino cannot tell his younger brother that he is working as a spy. Eventually, however, Mimo learns the truth and apologizes to his brother for the way he acted. By this time, Mimo has made a name for himself in the partisan army; his lack of fear and dedication to the cause end up serving him well.
Mimo Lella Quotes in Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Beneath a Scarlet Sky quotes below are all either spoken by Mimo Lella or refer to Mimo Lella. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
“I am going to meet a beautiful girl today,” Pino said, wagging his finger at the scarlet, threatening sky. “And we are going to fall in mad, tragic love and go on grand adventures with music and food and wine and intrigue every day, all day long.”
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Chapter 2
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The screen froze in close-up on Astaire and Hayworth dancing cheek to cheek, their lips and smiles to the panicking crowd.
As the film melted up on the screen, antiaircraft guns cracked outside the theater, and the first unseen Allied bombers cleared their bays, releasing an overture of fire and destruction that played down on Milan.
Chapter 3
Quotes
Pino had never seen dead people before, and began to cry himself. Nothing will ever be the same. The teenager could feel that as plain as the hornets still buzzing and the explosions still ringing in his ears. Nothing will ever be the same.
Chapter 11
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They lost sight of Mrs. Napolitano and the others almost immediately, but they could hear her playing beautifully, with passion, each note carrying through the thin, crisp, alpine air. They reached the tree line and put on their skis as she took the tempo up again, casting forth the melody of the triumphant aria like some radio wave that hit Pino in his heart and vibrated in his soul.
Chapter 12
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But he felt good about it, elated actually. Fooling the Nazis like that made him feel empowered. In his own way, he was fighting back. They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance. Italy was not German. Italy could never be German.
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Mimo Lella Quotes in Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Beneath a Scarlet Sky quotes below are all either spoken by Mimo Lella or refer to Mimo Lella. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
“I am going to meet a beautiful girl today,” Pino said, wagging his finger at the scarlet, threatening sky. “And we are going to fall in mad, tragic love and go on grand adventures with music and food and wine and intrigue every day, all day long.”
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Page Number and Citation:
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Chapter 2
Quotes
The screen froze in close-up on Astaire and Hayworth dancing cheek to cheek, their lips and smiles to the panicking crowd.
As the film melted up on the screen, antiaircraft guns cracked outside the theater, and the first unseen Allied bombers cleared their bays, releasing an overture of fire and destruction that played down on Milan.
Chapter 3
Quotes
Pino had never seen dead people before, and began to cry himself. Nothing will ever be the same. The teenager could feel that as plain as the hornets still buzzing and the explosions still ringing in his ears. Nothing will ever be the same.
Chapter 11
Quotes
They lost sight of Mrs. Napolitano and the others almost immediately, but they could hear her playing beautifully, with passion, each note carrying through the thin, crisp, alpine air. They reached the tree line and put on their skis as she took the tempo up again, casting forth the melody of the triumphant aria like some radio wave that hit Pino in his heart and vibrated in his soul.
Chapter 12
Quotes
But he felt good about it, elated actually. Fooling the Nazis like that made him feel empowered. In his own way, he was fighting back. They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance. Italy was not German. Italy could never be German.
