This year marks the 70th anniversary of the passing of Benedetto Croce. On this occasion, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to present the Italian translation of Fabio F. Rizi’s seminal work, Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism, and the webinar:
Benedetto Croce: From Anti-Fascism to the Birth of the Italian Republic
Thursday, February 24 | 12:30PM EST
ZOOM Webinar | Free Event | Registration Required
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Originally published by the University of Toronto Press, Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism is now available in Italian, published by Rubbettino, with the contribution of the Fondazione Brigata Maiella. Rizi’s volume, hailed as groundbreaking work when first published, provides a detailed analysis of the political life of one of the most important Italian philosophers, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), from the beginning of the XX century to the birth of the Italian Republic. Rizi’s original research, based on Croce’s political and private life, demonstrates that Croce’s anti-fascism was active and not passive, as some historians have maintained. Through a vast range of resources such as the private edition of Croce’s diaries, the Taccuini di Lavoro police documents, and archival materials – Fabio Rizi brings to light a portrait of the great Italian intellectual both new and engaging, clarifying misunderstandings concerning Croce’s involvement in Italy’s political history, and his opposition to Fascism up until his death.
The presentation will include contributions by Dr. Fabio F. Rizi, Prof. Stanislao Pugliese, (Hofstra University), Prof. Robert Ventresca (Western University), Prof. Nicola Mattoscio and Dr. Alessandra De Nicola (Fondazione Brigata Maiella), Dr. Marta Herling (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Naples), and Dr. Maria Laura Mosco (translator).
PROF. STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE
Stanislao G. Pugliese is Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at Hofstra University and a former research fellow at the Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza in Naples. A specialist on modern Italy, the anti-fascist Resistance and Italian Jews, Dr. Pugliese is the author, editor or translator of fifteen books on Italian and Italian American history, including Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile and Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone. With William Connell, he edited The Routledge History of Italian Americans, translated and published by Mondadori as Storia degli italoamericani. He is currently writing a new book tentatively titled Dancing on a Volcano in Naples: Scenes from the Siren City.
PROF. ROBERT VENTRESCA
Robert Ventresca is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and serves on the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He has published widely on topics related to European history, the Holocaust, and the history of Fascism. His work contributes to a growing comparative scholarship on the role that religion and religious institutions play in conflict and post-conflict transition, reconstruction and reconciliation. Professor Ventresca is currently writing a new book for Cambridge University Press on the Vatican and the Holocaust, to be based on newly released documentation from the Vatican archives.
DR. FABIO RIZI
Fabio Fernando Rizi received his Ph.D. from York University. He was President of the Dante Society of Toronto for several years and worked for the Toronto Public Library until his retirement. He has published extensively on Benedetto Croce. His latest books are Benedetto Croce and the Birth of the Italian Republic, (University of Toronto Press), and Politica e Cultura sotto il fascismo nel carteggio tra Croce e Laterza, dal 1925 al 1943 (Franco Cesati Editore), and wrote the “Antifascismo” entry for the Lessico Crociano.