Hidden for decades, deep beneath Milan’s Central Train Station, behind a rusted locked gate and piles of rubble, a vast, subterranean railyard lay undisturbed for decades after World War II. Originally used for mail wagons, railcars would be loaded with mail and other cargo on the tracks below and then

A number of people have commented to us that it would have been ideal to stream the book launch event for Rossella Levi’s “No Act of Betrayal” at the Biblioteca Marucelliana.  We agree, but the venue could not support it technically and streaming from a cell phone was less than

Thanks to La Nazione, one of the oldest and most respected regional newspapers in Italy, for covering the book launch event for our translation of  Rossella Levi’s No Act of Betrayal last week at Biblioteca Marucelliana. Under the headline “The Story of the Florentine Resistance Told in English,” the story

Johanna Bishop translated Rossella Levi’s “No Act of Betrayal” for us at Gidari Publishing, making Rossella’s words sing in English. But it was Johanna’s reading of Renato Levi’s words from the book at the 19 October 2023 event at Biblioteca Marucelliana that gave life to him for the audience. Here

Before a capacity Italian and English-speaking audience in Biblioteca Marucelliana in Florence, Italy, Rossella Levi read select passages from her book No Act of Betrayal in Italian. Then, Johanna Bishop, who translated the work, read the passages in English. It didn’t matter who spoke in what language, the emotion and

Since we started this project on the Florentine Resistance and the Nazi raid on Radio CORA – the clandestine Resistance radio operation in Florence feeding valuable intelligence to the Allies as they moved north from Rome – a number of people have commented that they did not know the full