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Silone

American  
[si-loh-nee, see-law-ne] / sɪˈloʊ ni, siˈlɔ nɛ /

noun

  1. Ignazio Secondo Tranquilli, 1900–78, Italian author.


Silone British  
/ siˈloːne /

noun

  1. Ignazio (iɲˈɲattsjo). 1900–78, Italian writer, noted for his humanitarian socialistic novels, Fontamara (1933) and Bread and Wine (1937)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Second-year Ohio State student Abby Silone showed a group of reporters how to use the automated carriers at the Aug. 19 demonstration.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2021

A dramatic act of protest by a simple, apolitical man in an obscure place: the story could have been written by Silone or Malraux.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016

“The God That Failed,” published in 1950, compiled personal narratives by six former Communists and fellow-travellers, including André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2016

In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square.

From Time Magazine Archive

The setting is a Swiss farm near Brissago, where the novel's hero, Daniele, maintains a secret outpost for the Italian anti-Fascist underground, as Silone himself did in the '30s and early '40s.

From Time Magazine Archive

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