Emilio Lussu
Emilio Lussu (
Armungia, 4 December 1890 – 5 March 1975) was a
Sardinian and Italian writer,
anti-fascist intellectual, military officer,
partisan, and politician. He is also the author of the novel ''
One Year on the High Plateau''. Lussu was elected multiple times to Parliament, serving as a member of the
Constituent Assembly of Italy for the constituency of
Cagliari and twice as a minister. He founded the
Sardinian Action Party and co-founded the
Justice and Freedom movement. As an anti-fascist, he was assaulted, wounded, and
sent to confinement to Lipari in the
Aeolian Islands by the
Italian fascist regime as a direct decision of
Benito Mussolini. After escaping, with
Carlo Rosselli and Fausto Nitti, he spent about fourteen years as a refugee abroad. He served as an officer in World War I, where he received multiple decorations, and participated in the
Spanish Civil War as a political leader and in the Italian Resistance.
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