La civiltà della conversazione
If you were to say where took place the ideals of the most idle, ruthless, demanding European civilization between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one might answer: in some salons of Paris, where there was the celebration of the rites, at the same time esoteric and transparent, of the conversation.
"To the Civilization of the conversation Benedetta Craveri has dedicated a loving and enjoyable book that I recommend to all those who worship The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years Later. You will find portraits of salons, of lords and ladies, gossip, epigrams, love, conspiracy, conversion, convents, fantasy romance, duels, the shadow of Versailles, Madame de La Fayette, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Diderot, and events of history, which remain gently in the background, to act as characters. On the one hand Benedetta Craveri lives, passionately, inside his book ... from the other side she is an historician, painstakingly searches in the libraries, teaches at the university, and judges"
"To the Civilization of the conversation Benedetta Craveri has dedicated a loving and enjoyable book that I recommend to all those who worship The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years Later. You will find portraits of salons, of lords and ladies, gossip, epigrams, love, conspiracy, conversion, convents, fantasy romance, duels, the shadow of Versailles, Madame de La Fayette, La Rochefoucauld, Voltaire, Diderot, and events of history, which remain gently in the background, to act as characters. On the one hand Benedetta Craveri lives, passionately, inside his book ... from the other side she is an historician, painstakingly searches in the libraries, teaches at the university, and judges"
(Pietro Citati).
Author
Benedetta Craveri
Publishing House
Year of Publication
2001
Translations
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