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6 unusual facts about Benedetto Croce


Cemetery of Poggioreale, Naples

Benedetto Croce, philosopher and politician (tomb in the immediate vicinity of the entrance)

Malcolm Munthe

Munthe was also instrumental in the rescue of liberal philosopher Benedetto Croce and his family, held captive in Sorrento, and their flight to Capri where his father Axel Munthe's house Villa San Michele provided shelter.

Raffaele Pettazzoni

During his clerical studies struggled against Catholic Church's monopoly on religious studies in Italy and against such anti-clerical secularist academics as Benedetto Croce who held the study of religions to be an academically lazy and uninteresting discipline.

Tercet

There has been much investigation of the possible sources of the Dantesque terzina, which Benedetto Croce characterised as "linked, enclosed, disciplined, vehement and yet calm".

Walk to Canossa

On the other side, Canossa is remembered in Italy by Benedetto Croce as the first concrete victory after the fall of the Roman Empire of the Pope, who, for the 19th-century historian, represented the Italian people, against the domination of the Germans.

World Congress of Philosophy

The second International Congress took place in Geneva in 1904; the third was in Heidelberg, 1908 (with Josiah Royce, Wilhelm Windelband and Benedetto Croce).


Hegelianism

Benedetto Croce and Étienne Vacherot were the leading Hegelians towards the end of the nineteenth century in Italy and France, respectively.

Lionello Venturi

Lionello Venturi was influenced by the idealism of Benedetto Croce as well as the writing of Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin.

Marta Traba

In 1958, she published El museo vacío, a book concerning modern art in which she adopted aesthetic notions by Benedetto Croce and Wilhelm Worringer.


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