Several manuscripts are among the cultural artifacts illegally taken from Italy that are being returned to Italy.
From a story in the Bend Bulletin...
The day an agent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stuck her foot in the doorway of his home and insisted she was coming in, Phillip Pirages knew the news wasn’t good.
His wife answered the door and called him in tears: The Italian government had identified three 13th-century choral music manuscripts Pirages was selling online as stolen, and the U.S. government was there to reclaim them.
After several unpleasant conversations, the Oregon book dealer was convinced that the manuscripts he had purchased in Europe and Ohio were stolen from Italian monasteries and churches between 1975 and 2008.
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