Silone,
Ignazio (born Secondo Tranquilli) 1900-78; It. writer
See Silone in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(sĭ-lōˈnē, sē-lōˈnĕ), Ignazio 1900-1978.
Italian novelist whose best-known works, Bread and Wine (1937) and The Seed Beneath the Snow (1941), were written while he was in exile from the Fascist regime in Italy.