Iris Origo's last book, "A Need to Testify", is a memoir of four
friends who shared an
anti-fascist commitment in Italy during World War II. Two of them, writer Lauor de Bosis and
American monologist Ruth Draper, were lovers. The other two,
historian Gaetano
Salvemini and
Ignazio Silone, journalist and author of "Fontamara" and "Bread and Wine", lived in exile. When "A Need to Testify" was originally published in the early 1980s, "New Statesman" called it "a sensitive and beautifully written book by a remarkable writer," and the "New York Times" felt that Origo's portrait of Silone was the best short study of that author ever written. "A Need to Testify" is the third in a series of new editions of significant biographical works by Iris Origo. Books & Co. and Helen Marx Books have previously published both "Leopardi: A Study in Solitude" and "The Last Attachment" to rave reivews.
By Iris Origo. Introduction by Ted Morgan.
7.75 x 5 in..
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