Passato e Presente — Season 1, Episode 22: Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

Episode synopsis

Episode dedicated to Dino Segre, also known as "Pitigrilli": one of Turin's most read writers who, in 1930s, became a spy for OVRA (the Fascist regime's political police), although he himself often had problems with the regime, that considered him "immoral" and his novels "not very Italian".

About Passato e Presente

Program about historical dissemination, presented by Paolo Mieli. Each episode sees a historian interacting with the presenter and three young university students.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1The Defeat of the Dardanelles
• E2Nicolaj II, the Last Tsar
• E3The Trains of the Sun: Italy's Internal Migration in the 1950s
• E4Duce and America
• E5Charlemagne
• E6Caporetto: Before the Battle
• E7Battle Name: Lenin
• E8Italian Prisoners of the Allies
• E9Discord's Final: 1976 Davis Cup in Chile
• E10Caporetto: the Battle
• E11Tucci, Duce's Explorer
• E12Anne Frank, a Denied Memory