One of Italy's most important novelists of the 20th century.
Best known for "La storia", a novel about Rome during World War II with
many autobiographic elements. Claudia Cardinale played the protagonist "Ida" in
its movie version.
She and her husband Alberto Moravia left Rome and fled to the area of Cassino in 1944, during World War II (because her mother was Jewish, as was Alberto's father).