Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (19 June 1926 – 14 March 1972) was an influential Italian publisher, businessman after the
Second World War. He founded a vast library of documents mainly in the history of international labor and socialist movements. He became a militant and clandestine left-wing activist during the
Years of Lead. Feltrinelli is perhaps most famous for his decision to translate and publish
Boris Pasternak's novel
Doctor Zhivago in the West after the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union. He died violently either by his own, perhaps inadvertent, hand or at the hands of a covert enemy.