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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Ignazio Silone, 78, Italian novelist and a founding member of his country's Communist Party in 1921; in Geneva. Driven into Swiss exile by Mussolini's blackshirts for his political activities, Si-lone wrote two bitterly anti-Fascist and well-received novels, Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine (1936). Returning to Italy in 1944, he had a second fling with politics, then retired to his writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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