Word: croce
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...Monat establishes the link by printing articles by such writers as T. S. Eliot. Bertrand Russell, Joseph Schumpeter, Benedetto Croce, Arthur Koestler, Sidney Hook, Aldous Huxley and Reinhold Niebuhr. Articles, all translated into German, cover every subject, from the relationship between Christianity and Western civilization to the real place of Wall Street in the U.S. economy. 'George Orwell's biting anti-Communist satires, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, were translated into German only in the pages of Der Monat...
Died. Benedetto Croce, 86, Italy's famed historian-philosopher, longtime (since 1910) member of the Italian Senate and member (for six weeks) of the post-surrender Badoglio cabinet; in Naples. Born into a wealthy family of Aquila, he went to Rome after his parents were killed in an earthquake and began his study of philosophy. A lifelong agnostic, he believed that the supernatural is no concern of the philosopher ("Man can only know that which he has experienced"), held that philosophy is no more than a method of history. He flirted briefly with Marxism, later with Fascism, quickly rejected...
...tender-tough little story about a gang of kids who grew up, much too fast, in the dirty but lively Santa Croce quarter of Florence. Unlike most of the half-forgotten U.S. proletarian novelists of two decades ago, Pratolini knows how proletarians live, and he writes about them with a tender gravity that is unflecked by condescension or political twisting...
Like most recent Italian novels, The Naked Streets is skimpy on plot, oversimple in characterization, but redeemed by a strong feeling for the fragile emotions of adolescence. Its true hero is the Santa Croce quarter, which Novelist Pratolini describes with the affectionate accuracy of a man remembering his childhood haunts. Symbol of common miseries and memories, Santa Croce binds the characters together until the troubles of growing up descend upon them, and meanwhile, declares Valerio wistfully, "we were glad to be friends...
...years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn. Time after time the carabinieri barely missed catching him. How that could be, nobody was saying, but one Sunday morning in 1949, the parishioners of Orgosolo got a strong hint. On the whitewashed wall of the little Church of Santa Croce was a list of 36 names crudely lettered in tar and labeled: "These are the spies of Orgosolo." The names were those of Orgosolo villagers from all walks of life. They even included that of Liandru's own wife, Maddalena, who married him at the little church...