The book: "Eboli - say the Lucanians among whom Levi was sent into exile by fascism - is the last village of Christians. Christian is equal to man. In the subsequent villages, ours, one does not live as Christians, but as animals." Italo Calvino says in one of the two texts that introduce this volume: "The peculiarity of Carlo Levi lies in this: that he is the witness of the presence of another time within our time, he is the ambassador of another world within our world. We can define this world as the world that lives outside our history in front of the world that lives in history. Naturally, this is an external definition, it is, let's say, the starting situation of Carlo Levi's work: the protagonist of 'Christ Stopped at Eboli' is a man engaged in history who finds himself in the heart of a sorcerous, magical South, and sees that the reasons that were at stake for him here no longer apply, other reasons are at stake, other oppositions at the same time more complex and more elementary." The author: Carlo Levi was an Italian writer, painter, and anti-fascist. Among the most significant narrators of the Italian twentieth century, he is best known for the novel Christ Stopped at Eboli, which made him one of the major spokespersons of the southern question in the post-war period.