Benedetta Craveri
Adele Benedetta Craveri (born September 23, 1942 in Rome ) is an Italian modern and literary historian.
Life
Benedetta Craveri is a granddaughter of Benedetto Croce . She received her Laureate Degree in Literature in Rome in 1969 (with a dissertation La formazione del gusto neoclassico e André Chénier with Giovanni Macchia), directed the cultural program of Radio Spazio Tre from 1976 to 1986 and taught French literary history and language at the University of Tuscia since 1988 in Viterbo (from 2001 as associate professor) and since 2005 full professor of French literature at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples.
It deals with French literary and cultural history of the 17th and 18th centuries and especially with the role of women (salon ladies), literary letter culture and literary communication. Among other things, she wrote a book about the Marquise du Deffand and the collar affair .
She also writes for La Repubblica, the New York Review of Books, and the Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France. Her book on salon culture won several Italian awards.
In 2017 she received the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca , in 2006 the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature française , and in 2003 the Prix Saint-Simon . In 2004 she became Officier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
Fonts
- Madame du Deffand e il suo mondo, Milan, Adelphi 1982
- French translation: Madame du Deffand et son monde, Seuil, 1986, paperback edition Points 1999
- La civiltà della conversazione, Milan, Adelphi 2001
- French translation: L'âge de la conversation, Gallimard, 2002
- Amanti e regine. Il potere delle donne, Milan: Adelphi 2005
- French edition: Reines et favorites: le pouvoir des femmes, Gallimard, 2007, folio 2009
- German edition: Queens and Mätressen, Carl Hanser 2008
- Maria Antonietta e lo scandalo della collana, Milan: Adelphi 2006
- French translation: Marie-Antoinette et le scandale du collier, Gallimard, 2008
- Gli ultimi libertini, Milan: Adelphi 2016
- French translation: Les derniers libertins, Flammarion, 2016
As editor and translator:
- André Chenier, Turin: Einaudi 1976
- Lettere di Mademoiselle Aissé a Madame ***, Milan: Adelphi 1984
- Vita privata del Maresciallo di Richelieu , Milan: Adelphi 1989
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Craveri, Benedetta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Craveri, Adele Benedetta (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian modern and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |