Passato e Presente

Season 1, Episode 22

Episode Title: Pitigrilli, Writer and Spy

Air Date: 2017-11-09

Overview:

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".