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

by Iris Origo

Book Overview

Introduction by Ted Morgan When originally released in the early 1980s, New Statesman called Origo's final book 'a sensitive and beautifully written book by a remarkable writer.' Available again in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151649898
• ISBN13: 9780151649891
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Part Great but part meandering

I found the biographies/commentaries on Salvemini and Silone to be good. And I found few other detailed sources for these two emminent men. The section on Lauro was OK and I did not read the section on Ruth Draper. The author knew each of these people personally which can be informative. THe author did not stick to chronology in writing these portraits, and I was sometimes what part of the life in question was being described - I felt she sometimes meandered. Then she would get back and track and I would be fascinated