![]() Calasso's uncle, Tristano Codignola, was a partisan during World War II who after the war joined the political life of the new republic, and was for a while Minister of Education. Codignola created a new publishing house called La Nuova Italia, in Florence, as his friend Benedetto Croce had done in Bari with Laterza. His maternal grandfather Ernesto Codignola was a professor of philosophy at Florence University. Biography Ĭalasso was born in Florence in 1941, into a family of the Tuscan upper class, well connected with some of the great Italian intellectuals of their time. The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness. ![]() He has been called "a literary institution of one". Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. ![]() Roberto Calasso ( – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher. ![]()
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