“If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say:”
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Ignazio Silone
Secondino Tranquilli, best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone, was an Italian politician and writer. He became famous during World War II for his anti-fascist novels. Considered among the most well-known and read Italian intellectuals in Europe and in the world, his most famous novel, Fontamara, became emblematic for its denunciation of the condition of poverty, injustice, and social oppression…
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culture · Italian politician and writer (1900–1978) · politician · journalist · novelist · playwright · writer · also Ignazio Silone, Secondino Tranquilli, Secondo Tranquilli, Silone
Born 1 May 1900 · Died 22 August 1978 · Q168431
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Ansa: Pescina celebra Ignazio Silone a 125 anni dalla nascita
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2022· 2 entries
The Atlantic: Ignazio Silone: A Study in Integrity
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affaritaliani: 1° maggio, Ignazio Silone i ‘cafoni’ e la dignità del lavoro
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2021· 1 entry
Il Messaggero: Pescina, seconda inaugurazione della Casa museo di Ignazio Silone
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2018· 1 entry
Fanpage.it: 40 anni fa moriva Ignazio Silone: la storia senza tempo di Fontamara e quel Nobel mancato
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2017· 1 entry
Il Messaggero: Ignazio Silone e Gramsci nel tritacarne dei revisionisti
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2016· 1 entry
Corriere della Sera: Terremoto della Marsica: così Ignazio Silone raccontò il sisma del 1915
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2015· 1 entry
"I don't think there is much uncertainty anymore about the relationships that Secondino Tranquilli (better known as Ignazio Silone) had with the Italian state police in the early years of the fascist regime
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2003· 1 entry
Elizabeth Leake put forward the thesis, based on the work of Biocca and Canali, that Silone would have invented his own image, his identity, and life, accusing him of having been a false-socialist spy for the police and
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2001· 1 entry
The New Criterion: The exemplar: Ignazio Silone
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1978· 2 entries
Died 1978-08-22.
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“Faszyzm był kontrrewolucją skierowaną przeciwko rewolucji, która nigdy nie nastąpiła.”
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1973).
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1971).
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Was awarded the prestigious Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
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1969· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (1969).
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Awarded Jerusalem Prize (1969).
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Silone was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, which goes to writers who deal with the theme of individual freedom and society
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Premio Campiello (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
With the discovery that the journal received secret funds from the United States Central Intelligence Agency, Silone resigned and devoted all his energies to writing novels and autobiographical essays
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1951· 1 entry
The PSU merged with Giuseppe Saragat's Italian Socialist Workers' Party (Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani, PSLI) to form the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, PSDI)
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1948· 1 entry
Silone was a founder of the breakaway Union of Socialists (Unione dei Socialisti, UdS), succeeding Ivan Matteo Lombardo as the party's leader in June 1949
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1946· 1 entry
Became a contributor to Rosso e Nero, a magazine started and edited by Alberto Giovannini
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1945· 1 entry
“The Fascism of tomorrow will never say”
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1944· 1 entry
And two years later he was elected as a PSI deputy
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1928· 1 entry
For being a member of the PCd'I and died in prison in 1931 as a result of the severe beatings he received
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1927· 1 entry
On a mission to the Soviet Union and settled in Switzerland in 1930
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1921· 1 entry
And became one of its covert leaders during the Italian fascist regime
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1917· 1 entry
Silone joined the Young Socialists group of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI), rising to be their leader
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1911· 1 entry
And he lost many of his family members, including his mother, Marianna Delli Quadri, in the 1915 Avezzano earthquake
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-05-01.
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