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The recovered splendor of the abbey, made possible by matching donations from the World Monuments Fund and a local charitable foundation, “helps to cancel the images of tumbled stones and wounded landscape that we thought would be difficult to heal,” said the Abruzzo-born Gianni Letta, the under secretary to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who has been very involved in monitoring the reconstruction from the earthquake. Now, two years later, he said at the inauguration, “This abbey is more beautiful than when I was a boy.”