Fondazione benedetto croce biography
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20 November 1952 - 20 November 2022: 70 years since Benedetto Croce's death
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20 November 1952 - 20 November 2022
70 years since Benedetto Croce's death
The relationship between Benedetto Croce and Luigi Einaudi, which evolved over time into a friendship, 'lasted half a century, and nothing could shake it. Certainly not the so-called theoretical dispute between liberalism and liberalism, which was not a dispute, but a discussion between two friends, each of whom appreciated the ideas developed by the other' (Roberto Einaudi, “Einaudi e Croce. Ricordi e affinità”, 2022).
This relationship is reflected in what is kept in our library: 381 books by Benedetto Croce plus 271 volumes about him. Correspondence with Luigi Einaudi is kept in the archive: 60 letters from Croce to Einaudi and 64 letters from Einaudi to Croce. A heritage that is accessible from our site, freely available in the digitised version of the volume edited by Luigi Firpo that can be found in the 'Reading of the Month' section of the Einaudi Foundation home page or by clicking here
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Library History
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Prolific writer opposed the Fascists and supported democracy
| Benedetto Croce influenced literature, philosophy and politics in his lifetime |
Croce was an idealist philosopher, historian and erudite literary scholar whose approach to literature influenced future generations of writers and literary critics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 16 times.
He became a Senator in 1910 and was Minister for Education from 1920 to 1921 in the last pre-Fascist government of the so-called Giolitti era. He is also remembered for his major contribution to the rebirth of Italian democracy after World War II.
Croce was born into a wealthy family and raised in a strict Catholic environment. However, from the age of 16 he gave up Catholicism and developed a personal philosophy of spiritual life.
In 1883, while he was still a teenager, he was on holiday with his family on the island of Ischia when an earthquake struck the town of Casamicciola Terme and destroyed the house they were staying in. His mother, father and sister were all killed, but although he was buried for