Finding freedom in internal exile
Carlo Levi – Italian socialist, painter, doctor to the poor, politician, writer, editor – is remembered chiefly for Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945), a memoir of his time as a political prisoner under Mussolini, in 1935-6, in the remote village of “Gagliano” (Aliano) in the province of Lucania (now Basilicata), southern Italy. Arrested as an … Read more