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Philosophical Haiku

Benedetto Croce (1866-1952)

by Terence Green

The artist’s passion
Lyricism of the mind.
Unique creation.

Benedetto Croce was the greatest Italian philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. Orphaned in his late teens after his wealthy parents were killed in an earthquake, Croce studied in Rome before entering a life of intense intellectual labour, the fortune he inherited buying him the freedom to do so.

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