The Poet and the Dictator
Subtitle: Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: April 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780275969646
Subjects: Biography: general; Fascism & Nazism; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Political activism; 20th century; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Italy; Europe - General; General; Military - World War II; History / Europe / General; Literary; 1901-1931; Anti-fascist movements; De Bosis, Lauro,; History; Politics and literature; United States
First sentence: By 1930, a little-known Italian poet and cultural diplomat in New York had had enough of Fascism at home and of America's then high enthusiasm for Mussolini.