Hurwitz, Camilla

Camillo Viglino came from a very patriarchal, upper-class family that strongly opposed his decision to volunteer for flight training. Viglino's strong religious upbringing is evidenced by his allusion to divine intervention in the daily lives of the young student pilots contained in his memoirs. Unfortunately, his career as a military pilot was a very brief one, as the reader will discover on reading his memoirs.

Viglino went on to obtain degrees in Law, Literature, and Philosophy, and became a professor at the Collegio Melleria Rosmini in Domodossola, where he had studied as a youth. He b...