Primo Levi

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 16, 1945, liberated by American troops of the 80th Division. Elie Wiesel (7th from the left on the middle bunk next to the vertical post) World War II Holocaust

What Is the Origin of the Term Holocaust?

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

Discover

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

What is Holy Week?

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Primo Levi: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	July 31, 1919 • Turin • Italy
Died	April 11, 1987 (aged 67) • Turin • Italy
Notable Works	“If This is a Man” • “The Periodic Table”

Giorgio Bassani

Italian author

Giovanni Guareschi

Italian journalist and novelist

Michelangelo

Italian artist

Dante

Italian poet

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian statesman and writer

Petrarch

Italian poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Leo XIII

pope

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian author

Elena Ferrante

Italian author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Aldo Rossi

Italian architect

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

Umberto Eco

Italian author and literary critic

Giacomo Leopardi

Italian poet and philosopher

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Primo Levi: Facts & Related Content

Facts

Related Biographies