Need to Testify Portraits of Lauro De Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, Ignazio Silone and an Essay on Biography

Iris Origo's last book, A Need to Testify, is a memoir of four friends who shared an anti-fascist commitment in Italy during World War II. Two of them, writer Lauor de Bosis & American monologist Ruth Draper, were lovers. The other two, historian Gaetano Salvemini & Ignazio Silone, journalist & author of Fontamara & Bread & Wine, lived in exile. When A Need to Testify was originally published in the early 1980s, New Statesman called it a sensitive & beautifully written book by a remarkable writer, & the New York Times felt that Origo's portrait of Silone was the best short study of that author ever written. A Need to Testify is the third in a series of new editions of significant biographical works by Iris Origo. Books & Co. & Helen Marx Books have previously published both Leopardi: A Study in Solitude & The Last Attachment to rave reviews.Origo, Iris is the author of 'Need to Testify Portraits of Lauro De Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, Ignazio Silone and an Essay on Biography' with ISBN 9781885586513 and ISBN 1885586515.