Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.
Carlo Levi in 1947 (portrait by Carl Van Vechten)
Carlo Levi in 1955. Photo by Paolo Monti (Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC).
street name sign in Erice, Sicily
Tile autographed by Carlo Levi at Alassio
Christ Stopped at Eboli is a memoir by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935–1936 to Grassano and Aliano, remote towns in Southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata. In the book he gives Aliano the invented name Gagliano.
First Edition (Italian) (publ. Einaudi)