Stanislao G. Pugliese is a professor of modern European history and the Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. His book Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone won the Fraenkel Prize in London, the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the Howard Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association.
We can truly know only that which we have made: human history.