The Author: Frank Rosengarten is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Italian from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in French from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. In addition to more than sixty articles, essays, and book reviews, Rosengarten is author of Vasco Pratolini: The Development of a Social Novelist; The Italian Anti-Fascist Press (1919-1945); and Silvio Trentin: Dall¿interventismo alla Resistenza. He is the editor of Antonio Gramsci ¿ Letters from Prison, 2 vols., and a co-editor of New Studies in the Politics and Culture of U.S. Communism.