L'Italia Libera
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L'Italia Libera (meaning Free Italy in English) was the newspaper of the Italian anti-fascist organization and political party Partito d'Azione (abbrev: Pd'A) (Action Party).
History and profile
[edit]L'Italia Libera was founded in July 1942. The first issue of the paper appeared in January 1943.[1] It was published by the Action Party.[2] The paper was published on a press in the basement of premises at Via Basento 55, in Rome, until it was raided in November 1943.[3] Leone Ginzburg was the editor until his arrest (and subsequent murder) in 1943. Carlo Levi served as the editor-in-chief of the paper between 1945 and 1946.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Norman Kogan (June 1953). "The Italian Action Party and the Institutional Question". The Western Political Quarterly. 6 (2): 279. doi:10.2307/442162.
- ^ Stanislao G. Pugliese (17 December 2004). The Legacy of Primo Levi. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4039-8159-2.
- ^ (in Italian) Short biography of Leone Ginzburg, Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia (ANPI), Retrieved 30 October 2010.
- ^ Gaetana Marrone; Paolo Puppa, eds. (26 December 2006). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Routledge. p. 1037. ISBN 978-1-135-45530-9.
External links
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