Story of My Death - Paperback

by Lauro de Bosis (Author), Ruth Draper (Translator)

"We are going to Rome to scatter these words of liberty far and wide, words which for seven years have been forbidden like a crime. And with reason, for if they had been allowed, they would have shaken the Fascist tyranny to its foundations within a few hours."

In 1931 the Italian poet Lauro de Bosis flew over Rome in a small plane in order to scatter anti-Fascist pamphlets from the sky. He did not survive the journey, but in Story of My Death he left behind a remarkable testament: a denunciation of Mussolini's regime and a refusal, even in the face of death, to abandon the cause of liberty.

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Author Biography

Lauro de Bosis (1901-31) was an Italian poet and political activist. The author of the acclaimed play Icaro, he devoted himself in 1930 to campaigning against Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime.