Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli Knight Grand Cross OMRI Italian pronunciation: ; 22 April 1909 – 22 July 2001 was an Italian journalist, historian and writer. He was one of the 50 World Press Freedom Heroes according to the International Press Institute. Initially an admirer of Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship and a fascist supporter, at the end of the
Natalia Ginzburg Italian: , German: ; née Levi; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991, was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also
Beppe Fenoglio Italian pronunciation: born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922 in Alba (CN) – 18 February 1963 in Turin was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the Italian resistance movement, both largely inspired by his own personal experiences in them; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle
Oriana Fallaci Italian: ; 29 June 1929 – 15 September 2006 was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her “long, aggressive and revealing interviews” with many world leaders during the
Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola Italian: ; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974, better known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher, poet, painter, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, esotericist, and occultist. He has been described as a “fascist intellectual”, a “radical traditionalist”, “antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular”, and as having been “the leading philosopher of Europe’s neofascist movement”. Evola is popular in fringe circles, largely because of his metaphysical,
Umberto Eco OMRI 5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016 was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory, and Foucault’s Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes. Eco wrote
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda Italian pronunciation: , Sardinian: ; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936, also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda, was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 “for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general”. She
Enrico “Erri” De Luca born 20 May 1950, Naples is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of Corriere della Sera as “the writer of the decade”. He is also known for his opposition to the Lyon-Turin high speed train line, and is being sued for having called for its sabotage. On
Benedetto Croce KOCI, COSML Italian: ; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952 was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade and had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, including both Marxist Antonio Gramsci and fascist Giovanni Gentile. Croce was President of PEN International, the worldwide writers’ association, from 1949 until 1952.
Carlo Cassola 1917 – 1987 was an influential Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film of the same name by Luigi Comencini in 1963. Bibliography[edit] From the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC: L’amore tanto per fare (1981) Gli anni passano (1982) L’antagonista (1976) An arid heart Translated by William Weaver.