A Need to Testify - Softcover

Origo, Iris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885586515 ISBN 13: 9781885586513

Publisher: Turtle Point Press, 2000

Synopsis

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

About this title

Synopsis:

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 Fontarama and Bread and Wine lived in exile. When the book 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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1885586515
• ISBN 13: 9781885586513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 379