Italy,1945: Carlo Levi  published his book "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli), a memoir of his time spent in exile because of his anti-fascist activity (1935 to 1936), in the remote and poor south Italian province of Lucania. 
Two thousand years after the Emperor Augustus banished poet Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) into exile, on the Black Sea, Benito Mussolini, "Founder of the Empire" repeated an emperor’s praxis of sending poets into exile. It appealed so much to his vanity to imitate a Roman Emperor.