[ExI] Italy's Social Capital

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Lee:
> My embarrassment and ignorance knows no bounds. First,
> how is "Duce" pronounced?  (I'm reading a book: Mussolini's
> Italy.) Would that be (to an English only speaker) something
> like 'Eel  Doo-chay'?

Yes. 
Il = Eel, 
Duce = Doochay, 
hmmm, that 'ay' at the end of Doochay,
well, should sound like the 'e' in 'error' :-)
 
> Second, so "Dux" means leader as I learn from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dux
> How was that pronounced *by the Romans*?

Something like 'Dooks'. 

> Is it still pronounced the same way?

I think so.
 
> Also, who planted the trees?

According to this link
http://www.foroitalico.altervista.org/montegiano.htm
State's Forestal Corp (local branch) made it in 1938/9.
They also say that it was possible to read it
from Rome (it seems difficult, to me).