The Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, composed in a Fascist prison cell in the late 1920's and early 1930's, have now come to enjoy an immense popularity and widespread diffusion on an international scale. As Joseph Buttigieg writes, 'Few twentieth century works have elicited as much widespread interest or have had as great an impact on so many diverse field of study as the Quaderni del carcere'.1 In a similar vein, Fabio Frosini has spoken...