Roberto Calasso





Roberto Calasso

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May 30, 1941 in Florence, Italy

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Roberto Calasso (born 30 May 1941 in Florence) is an Italian publisher and writer. He was born into a family of the local upper class, well connected with some of the great Italian intellectuals of their time. His maternal grandfather Giovanni Codignola was a professor of philosophy at Florence University. Codignola created a new publishing house called La Nuova Italia, in Florence, just like his friend Benedetto Croce had done in Bari with Laterza. His uncle Tristano Codignola, partigiano during the Resistenza, after the war joined the political life of the new republic, and was for a while Minister of Education. His mother Melisenda – who gave up a promising academic career to raise her three children – was a scholar of German literature,...more


Average rating: 4.14 · 838 ratings · 111 reviews · 21 distinct works
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Literature and the Gods
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Ruin of Kasch
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Tiepolo Pink
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Forty-Nine Steps
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La follia che viene dalle N...
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L'ardore
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La Folie Baudelaire
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”
Roberto Calasso

“Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”
Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods

“The gods are fugitive guests of literature. ”
Roberto Calasso

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