[si-loh-nee; It. see-law-ne] 
I⋅gna⋅zio [ee-nyah-tsyaw] , (Secondo Tranquilli ), 1900–78, Italian author. |
| Si·lo·ne (sĭ-lō'nē, sē-lō'ně) Italian novelist whose best-known works, Bread and Wine (1937) and The Seed Beneath the Snow (1941), were written while he was in exile from the Fascist regime in Italy. |