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The Redeemed: Intellectuals Who Gained a Second Life (1938-1948)

In the years immediately following the Second World War, Carlo Muscetta—one of the founders of the publishing house of Einaudi—would recall that, on account of his years spent as a Blackshirt, Velio Spano had rechristened him a "redeemed" Fascist.¹ A scholar of Italian literature, a "critical Marxist"—for that is how Spano liked to define himself—the teacher of Avellino had, from the second half of the 1930s on, taken part in the Littoriali, the regime's cultural festivals, contributed to numerous periodicals including Oggi, La Ruota, and Primato, and, while not yet in his thirties, been admitted into the pantheon of the...