Franco Venturi : Italian Historian, Essayist and Journalist, a Scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the History of Russia, and an Anti-fascist Active in the Resistance

1914 — December 14, 1994

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An Italian historian, essayist and journalist, a scholar of the Enlightenment in Italy and of the history of Russia, and an anti-fascist active in the Resistance.

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1914

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December 14, 1994

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