Benedetto Croce (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Benedetto Croce was born in the southern Italian region of Abruzzi. His family’s substantial property wealth afforded him a comfortable childhood in Naples. After his parents died in an earthquake in 1883, Croce moved to Rome to live with his uncle, Silvio Spaventa, a prominent intellectual and conservative politician. The Italy of Croce’s youth was a country struggling with all the problems attendant to a newly formed nation-state. The heroic era of the national unification movement—the Risorgimento—had ended in 1871. In the years that followed the...
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