Nicola Chiaromonte (1905 inRapolla,Potenza – 18 January 1972 in Rome) was an Italian activist and writer. In 1934 he fled Italy for France, after opposingBenito Mussolini'sfascist government. In Paris he contributed toGiustizia e Libertà.^[1] During theSpanish Civil War, he flew inAndré Malraux's squadron, fighting against fascist supported GeneralFrancisco Franco. The character of Scali in Malraux's novelMan's Hope is based on Chiaromonte. After moving to New York in 1941, he took on an important role in the leftist anti-Stalinist intellectual scene of the period, writing forThe Nation,The New Republic,politics andPartisan Review. During theCold War, he helped found, and served as editor, for the Italian journalTempo Presente, which was published by the Congress for Cultural Freedom (an organization with silent backing of theCentral Intelligence Agency).^[2]Mary McCarthy was a close friend during his time in the US. A foreword to the 1985 edition of Chiaromonte's book of essaysThe Paradox of History (1970) was written byJoseph Frank, a notedDostoyevsky scholar.

In Italian

• La situazione drammatica (1960)
• Credere e non credere (1971)
• Scritti politici e civili (1976)
• Scritti sul teatro (1976)
• Silenzio e parole (1978)
• Il tarlo della conscienza (1992, introduction byGustaw Herling-Grudziński)
• Che cosa rimane. Taccuini 1955-1971 (1995, introduction byWojciech Karpiński)
• Fra me e te la verità, lettere a Muska (2013, afterword byWojciech Karpiński)(a collection of his letters toMelanie von Nagel, a Benedictine nun)

In English translation

• The Worm of Consciousness and Other Essays (1977)ISBN 978-0-15-698370-9
• The Paradox of History: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Others (1970)ISBN 978-0-297-00257-4

• Frances Kiernan,Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy, (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000), 754.
• Frances Stonor Saunders,The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, (New York: The New Press, 1999)

• Photographs of Nicola Chiaromonte
• Biografia
• The Nicola Chiaromonte's book collection at the Gino Bianco Library, Biblioteca Gino Bianco
• Writings by or about Nicola Chiaromonte and other materials on him, Biblioteca Gino Bianco
• Nicola Chiaromonte Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

• 1905 births
• 1972 deaths
• People from the Province of Potenza
• Action Party (Italy) politicians
• Italian activists
• Members of Giustizia e Libertà
• 20th-century Italian philosophers
• 20th-century Italian male writers
• Italian magazine editors
• Italian people of the Spanish Civil War
• People associated with Kultura (magazine)
• Foreign volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction)

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