On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the death of the illustrious intellectual Benedetto Croce, the Italian Embassy in Spain and the Instituto Italiano de Cultura in Madrid present this evening at 6.30 p.m. at the Institute’s headquarters a new edition of the travel diary of the Iberian Peninsula, which a young Croce in his twenties wrote in 1889 on the occasion of a trip to the Iberian Peninsula with a young Neapolitan friend of his.
The travelogue represents a deepening of the ties that existed then and still exist today between Spain and Italy, as well as between Spain and Naples. To the journey of the young writer must be added the symbolic journey that this work –The Notebook– has travelled, disappearing and reappearing at different times in the life of the great thinker, to be published posthumously in Italy in 1961, revised by Fausto Nicolini, and in a Spanish version by Félix Fernández Murga in 1993.
The Italian Ambassador Riccardo Guariglia; Marta Herling, Secretary General of the Italian Institute of Historical Studies; Professor Juan Carlos Marset, Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the University of Seville, and the Director of the Italian Institute, Marialuisa Pappalardo, will take part in the event. Admission is free with reservation by writing to iicmadrid@esteri.it.
