A Bell For Adano Author:John Hersey Adano was a small Italian town, and it's heart was a 700-year old bell. Farmers set off to their fields, bakers made their bread, and the faithful went to church by it's resonant ringing. At the outbreak of the war, the Fascists took the bell to a factory in Milan to melt it down for gunds and ammunition. — When the Americans conquered Italy, it ... more »became Major Victor Joppolo's job to solve the problems of Adano. Above all he had to find a new bell in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles.« less