Bread and Wine Author:Ignazio Silone, Eric Mosbacher (Translator) One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy. — Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on th... more »e brink of war.