1. Leone Ginzburg was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
10 Facts About Leone Ginzburg
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World War I began while the family was on vacation in Viareggio, Italy, and while his older brother and sister travelled with their mother back to Russia, Leone remained, with his governess, for the duration of the war.
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Leone Ginzburg studied at the Liceo Ginnasio Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin.
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Leone Ginzburg's classmates included such notable intellectuals as Norberto Bobbio, Piero Gobetti, Cesare Pavese, Giulio Einaudi, Massimo Mila, Vittorio Foa, Giancarlo Pajetta and Felice Balbo.
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In 1933, Leone Ginzburg co-founded, with Giulio Einaudi, the publishing house Einaudi.
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Leone Ginzburg lost his teaching position in 1934, having refused to swear an oath of allegiance imposed by the Fascist regime.
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Leone Ginzburg was arrested again in 1935 for his activities as leader of the Italian branch of Giustizia e Liberta, the Justice and Freedom Party, which Carlo Rosselli had founded in Paris in 1929.
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Somehow, Leone Ginzburg was able to continue his work as head of the Einaudi publishing house throughout the period.
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In 1943, after the Allied invasion of Sicily and the fall of Mussolini, Leone Ginzburg went to Rome, leaving his family in the Abruzzi.
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Leone Ginzburg was taken to the German section of the Regina Coeli prison.