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“Burn!” Was produced in the late 1960’s starring Marlon Brando and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.  There are several themes in this film that distinguish it from others related to slavery. Pontecorvo weaves together a struggle for freedom, the last throes of the colonialist era

The Italian City-State of Milan was predominantly ruled by the Visconti family. Similar to the de Medici’s of Florence, the Visconti’s rarely if ever held high office within the oligarchical representative system of Milan, which they ironically called “communes”.  The Visconti family maintained enormous