20th Century Italian Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography - Literary Criticism, Italian History - 1922 - 1945 (Fascist Era & World War II), Italy - Historical Biography, General & Miscellaneous Italian History, Radica

A Need to Testify

Name: A Need to Testify
Author: Iris Origo
ISBN: 9781885586513

by Iris Origo, Ted Morgan

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Overview

A Need to Testify continues Iris Origo's tradition of biography characterized by learning, tempered with modesty, enthusiasm, and participation in the lives of her fellow human beings. In this case, she writes about four antifascists, friends of Origo's and each other, in pre-World War II Italy, who worked tirelessly for the end of Mussolini and his government. Italian writers Lauro de Bosis, Gaetano Salvemini, and Ignazio Silone were joined by American monologist Ruth Draper in working to undermine the government. Origo, whose sympathies went out to Italy and its people, paints a warm portrait of each character and his or her struggle - in one case, to the death - against the opposition.

Synopsis

She writes of four anti-facists, friends of Origo's who worked tirelessly for the end of the Mussoulini.

About the Author, Iris Origo

Iris Origo, born in America of Anglo-Irish background, moved to Italy as a child. In 1924 she married Antonio Origo, and Italian nobleman; during the German occupation of World War II, they secretly hid Allied prisoners of war. She wrote many books of history, biography, and memoirs.