Nicholas PatrunoNicholas Patruno is professor emeritus of Italian at Bryn Mawr College. In addition to his extensive research on Levi, women in the Holocaust, and immigration writers, he has published primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian writers, icluding Giovanni Verga, Elio Vittorini, and Eugenio Montale. He is the author of Language in Giovanni Verga's Early Novels and Understanding Primo Levi, and he has commented on Levi's life and works for NBC's Today Show. Read More Read Less