Augusto Monti

 ( Italian Anti-fascists ) 

Augusto Monti (29 August 1881 in Monastero Bormida – 11 July 1966 in Rome) was an Italian writer and professor.

A strenuous opposer of fascism since its beginning, Monti was imprisoned by the regime. He directed the magazine Il Baretti from 1926 when the founder and director of the magazine, Piero Gobetti, died. During post-war, he became an important representative of the world of Italian literature and pedagogy.Umberto Levra et alii, Storia di Torino, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2001, pg. 1048 He taught at Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio in Turin.Ward, David. "Primo Levi's Turin." In: Gordon, Robert S.C. (editor). The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press, 30 July 2007. , 9781139827409. CITED: p. 11. Among his students there were Cesare Pavese, Giulio Einaudi, Leone Ginzburg, Norberto Bobbio, and Massimo Mila.

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• I Sansôssí on L'Ancora settimanale di informazione Comment about Augusto Monti and first page of his novel (in original language)