Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Extent and Medium
[23] p.
Envelope 6/76 ; microfilm reel 061 ; Frames 1558 - 1593
Scope and Content
"Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman after the Second World War. He founded a vast library of documents mainly in the history of international labor and socialist movements. He became a militant and clandestine left-wing activist during the Years of Lead. Feltrinelli is perhaps most famous for his decision to translate and publish Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago in the West after the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union. He died violently either by his own, perhaps inadvertent, hand or at the hands of a covert enemy."--wikipedia.
Newspaper clippings
Note(s)
Detailed dates of material: 1972
People
- Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo, 1926-1972
Subjects
- activists--Italy--20th century
- Publishers--Italy--20th century
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