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Emilio Lussu
AuthorBooks · Second hand1890-1975
Emilio Lussu was a Sardinian and Italian writer, anti-fascist intellectual, military officer, partisan, and politician. He is also the author of the novel One Year on the High Plateau. Lussu was elected multiple times to Parliament, serving as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy for the constituency of Cagliari and twice as a minister. He founded the Sardinian Action Party and co-founded the Justice and Freedom movement. As an anti-fascist, he was assaulted, wounded, and sent to confinement to Lipari in the Aeolian Islands by the Italian fascist regime as a direct decision of Benito Mussolini. After escaping, with Carlo Rosselli and Fausto Nitti, he spent about fourteen years as a refugee abroad. He served as an officer in World War I, where he received multiple decorations, and participated in the Spanish Civil War as a political leader and in the Italian Resistance.
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About Emilio Lussu
Birth
1890
Death
1975
Emilio Lussu was a Sardinian and Italian writer, anti-fascist intellectual, military officer, partisan, and politician. He is also the author of the novel One Year on the High Plateau. Lussu was elected multiple times to Parliament, serving as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy for the constituency of Cagliari and twice as a minister. He founded the Sardinian Action Party and co-founded the Justice and Freedom movement. As an anti-fascist, he was assaulted, wounded, and sent to confinement to Lipari in the Aeolian Islands by the Italian fascist regime as a direct decision of Benito Mussolini. After escaping, with Carlo Rosselli and Fausto Nitti, he spent about fourteen years as a refugee abroad. He served as an officer in World War I, where he received multiple decorations, and participated in the Spanish Civil War as a political leader and in the Italian Resistance.
Emilio Lussu was a multifaceted figure who combined his military career with intense political and literary work.
Born in Armungia, his most notable work, Un anno sull'Altipiano, reflects his profound experience on the front lines during the war.
Throughout his life, Lussu wrote a total of 33 works exploring fundamental themes such as Italian history and politics.
He used the pseudonym Tirreno to sign some of his writings, maintaining a critical voice against fascism.
His legacy endures as an essential testimony of resistance and intellectual commitment in the 20th century.
