LEVI, LEONE:

By: Isidore Singer, Umberto Cassuto

Italian author and journalist; born at Nizza-Monferrato in 1823; died at Turin Nov. 8, 1876; educated at the Collegio Foà at Vercelli. Although a man of affairs and a lawyer, hestill found time to devote himself to literature, his most important work being his "Lampi della Società Contemporanea," a faithful delineation of modern life. His "Massime a Casaccio," as well as his "Il Tempio di Torino" (his last work), was published in the "Corriere Israelitico" of Triest.

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