by Vasco Pratolini · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804455530
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«Metello» is the novel by Vasco Pratolini, published by Mondadori in paperback (381 pages, in Italian).
Set in Florence at the end of the nineteenth century, it tells the life of Metello Salani, a young man who grows up in the working-class district of San Niccolò and returns to the city at fifteen to work as a bricklayer. Under the tutelage of an old anarchist, he learns the trade and becomes involved in union activism, meets Ersilia, suffers imprisonment, and takes part in the workers' struggles of post-unification Italy.
It is the first volume of the series «Una storia italiana», also subtitled «Una storia Italiana 1».
Vasco Pratolini was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
