Arrested in Milan in 1820 for links to the Carbonari, the poet and playwright Silvio Pellico spent ten years in Austrian prisons, first in Milan and Venice and then in the fortress of the Spielberg in Moravia. He records solitude, illness, friendships with fellow prisoners and jailers, and the slow growth of his religious faith, without bitterness toward his captors.
A gentle prison memoir that became one of the most influential books of the Italian Risorgimento. Download the free EPUB.