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A gift for the new president

29/01/2009

An Italian footwear craftsman has spoken of the roundabout route he has taken towards becoming a shoe supplier to the new US president, Barack Obama.Adriano Stefanelli, whose workshop is in Novara in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, has been the papal shoemaker since 2003, creating the now-famous red leather slippers that won Pope Benedict ...

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