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Benedetta Craveri


Born
in Rome, Italy
September 23, 1942


Benedetta Craveri, granddaughter of the noted philosopher Benedetto Croce, is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and to the italian newspaper La Repubblica.

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Amanti e regine

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“Nella vita di tutti i giorni [i francesi] hanno portato al massimo grado di perfezione quell'arte che, fra tutte, è la più utile e la più gradevole, l'art de vivre, l'arte della società e della conversazione.
- David Hume, The Philosophical Works”
Benedetta Craveri, The Age of Conversation

“Si dice che l'uomo sia un animale socievole. Stando così le cose, mi pare che un francese sia più uomo di un altro, è l'uomo per eccellenza, poichè sembra fatto unicamente per vivere in società."
- Montesquieu, Lettre Persanes”
Benedetta Craveri, The Age of Conversation

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