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Primo Levi
(1919 - 1987 / Italy)

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Primo Levi was born in Turin in Italy in 1919, to a family of non-religious Jews with Spanish roots. Pursuing an education in chemistry, he flouted Mussolini's racial laws of 1938, which prohibited Jews from higher education. Levi received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Turin .. .. more >>

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"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need."
Primo Levi (1919-1987), Italian chemist, author. repr. In The Mirror Maker (1989). "About Gossip," La Stampa (Turin, Italy, June 24, 1986).

"The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign."
Primo Levi (1919-1987), Italian chemist, author. "Butterflies," Other People's Trades (1985, trans. 1989).

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Primo Levi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] On their wedding day, Rina’s father, Cesare Luzzati, gave Rina the apartment at Corso Re Umberto where Primo Levi was to live for almost his entire life ...
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Primo Levi
Primo Levi, born in Turin, Italy, in 1919, and trained as a chemist, was arrested during the Second World War as a member of the anti-Fascist resistance and ...
http://www.inch.com/~ari/levi1.html

Scriptorium - Primo Levi
In approaching the works of Primo Levi, it becomes clear that there were two major episodes in his life which profoundly influenced his writing. ...
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Levi Primo
Primo Levi was born in Turin into a Jewish middle-class family. .... For further reading: The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a biography by Carole Angier (2002); ...
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/primo.htm

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