Word: croce
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...armchair, thinking. Occasionally Neapolitans see him out strolling, passing dilapidated palaces and ancient churches, to his favorite bookshop on the Via Foria for a bout of friendly dickering. But last week Neapolitans were troubled: out of the palazzo had come the news that Philosopher Benedetto Croce was gravely...
...newspapers carried the alarm: the old philosopher had collapsed. His daughter had rushed to his bedside, and so had such friends as Alessandro Casati, a leader of the Liberal Party, and Enrico de Nicola, ex-President of the republic. For two days Italians waited, then breathed with relief. Philosopher Croce had called for his manuscripts, said he wanted to get back to work. Though his doctors insisted that he keep on resting, they thought that for the present the danger was over...
...Single Glance. Thus, this week, Benedetto Croce approached his 84th birthday -an age, as he put it, "when a man's life seems a past that he can survey at a single glance." As scholars all over the world well knew, that glance included much...
Long before Italians ever heard the name of Benito Mussolini, they had begun to know Benedetto Croce. He was the wealthy aristocrat with the bristly hair who was to become not only Italy's most noted 20th Century philosopher, but a senator and a cabinet minister as well...
...established itself, he turned his back on Rome. In Naples, he edited a scholarly anti-Fascist magazine called La Critica, defied the government with his book History as the Story of Liberty. Once a band of young Black Shirts threatened to storm his home, fled when confronted by Signora Croce. Beyond that, the Fascists never dared to molest the Croces. "There is one man in all Italy whom I fear," Mussolini once remarked-"Croce. And I fear him because I do not understand...