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- Creator
- Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952
- Call number
- MssCol 693
- Physical description
- .21 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Transcript and translation of interview with Benedetto Croce, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
This holograph manuscript, written in Italian, is the transcript of an interview of Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce. In it he describes leaving his home in Sorrento, Italy in 1943, to avoid being seized by the Germans as a hostage. He discusses the effect of Fascism on Italy and the history of his own struggle against it; the true meaning of liberalism, and its possible future after World War II; and other matters. A typed English translation of the interview by Croce's daughter Elena is included
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- Fascism -- Italy
- Liberalism
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy -- Sorrento
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Italian
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328