My Prisons: a Written Account (Silvio Pellico) #406082

Ten years of high security jail were “his ascent to the Golgota”. At the foot of that mountain Pellico was a learned man, imbued with rationalistic training, that had made him atheist. In the loneliness of the captivity he had time and chance to know an alternative learning: the Bible. Here he found the answers to his deepest questions.