BREAD AND WINE ~Ignazio Silone~1937 FIRST EDITION~Italian Revolutionary Fascism
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BREAD AND WINE ~Ignazio Silone~1937 FIRST EDITION~Italian Revolutionary Fascism. Bread and Wine published in 1937 is the second novel in Ignazio Silone's celebrated Abruzzo Trilogy and is widely recognized as his masterpiece. Bread and Wine published in 1937 is the second novel in Ignazio Silone's celebrated Abruzzo Trilogy and is widely recognized as his masterpiece. The novel portrays the return of Pietro Spina to his homeland of Abruzzo after over a decade in exile. Disguised as the priest Don Paolo Spada, Spina seeks to evade capture by the fascist police and assumes the mantle of leadership for the cafoni ’s rebellion against the regime. Capturing both the intricacies and the simplicities of the human heart against the backdrop of an ordinary Italian village during the reign of Mussolini, Bread and Wine is a stirring, deeply serious novel that stands as an achievement of aesthetic maturity.
