Word: fontamara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days the two friends debated what to do. One of the men, Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread and Wine, world-famed novels that incarnated both the plight of humble Italians and the soul of man under tyranny...