Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Mussolini

  • Béla Bartók (1881-1945): The years in America, triumph over tragedy

    James L. FranklinGeorge DuneaChicago, Illinois, United States Black clouds of war were hanging over the world when Béla Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory (1903-1982) disembarked in New York Harbor on October 30, 1940. For the remainder of his life, Bartók would learn, as had Dante, “. . . how salt the taste of another…

  • Doctor in exile

    Constance MarkeyChicago, Illinois, United States In August of 1935, a handcuffed Dr. Carlo Levi, (1902-1975), author of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, (Christ Stopped at Eboli) arrived in the miserable southern Italian village of Gagliano (actually, Aliano).1 He knew why he was there. Indeed, under the fascist regime, he had already been arrested and…