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Carlo Levi

Died in 1975

Carlo Levi (died 1975) was born in Turin on 29 November 1902 into a Jewish family. After graduating in medicine from the University of Turin in 1924, he turned to painting as a pupil of Felice Casorati and exhibited at the Venice Biennale. A member of the anti-Fascist movement Giustizia e Libertà, he was arrested in 1935 and confined in Lucania until 1936. After the war he edited the newspaper L'Italia libera in Rome, sat in the Senate from 1963 to 1972, elected as an independent on the Communist lists, and died in Rome on 4 January 1975.

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