{"id":4567,"date":"2021-07-31T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2021-07-31T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T15:49:34","slug":"roberto-calasso-renaissance-man-of-letters-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/roberto-calasso-renaissance-man-of-letters-dies-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the NY Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/books\/roberto-calasso-dead.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Obituaries\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Verdic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide international readership.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/08\/01\/obituaries\/01Calasso-obit1\/30Calasso1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Art of the Publisher,\u201d his reflections on his decades in publishing, Mr. Calasso was diffident about the commercial side of publishing, noting that \u201cpublishing has often shown itself to be a sure and rapid way of squandering substantial amounts of money.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me he was the greatest European publisher of his time and one of our greatest writers \u2014 an exceptionally rare combination,\u201d Mr. Osborne said. \u201cMoreover, he was a true Florentine deep down, as I always thought, embodying the urbane tolerance and refinement of that city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the NY Times: Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80 A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Verdic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide international readership. In \u201cThe Art of the Publisher,\u201d his reflections on his decades in publishing, Mr. Calasso was diffident about &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/07\/31\/roberto-calasso-renaissance-man-of-letters-dies-at-80\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2148,16,17],"tags":[3289,3501,3497,3486,3494,3490,3500,3488,3496,3492,3485,3487,3493,3495,3498,3499,3491,3489],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4567","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-obituaries","9":"category-sea-stories","10":"category-thinking-about","11":"post_tag-3289","12":"post_tag-adelphi-edizioni","13":"post_tag-ancient-human-consciousness","14":"post_tag-author","15":"post_tag-civilization","16":"post_tag-greek-mythology","17":"post_tag-ka","18":"post_tag-kafka","19":"post_tag-milan","20":"post_tag-myths","21":"post_tag-polymath","22":"post_tag-publisher","23":"post_tag-rituals","24":"post_tag-roberto-calasso","25":"post_tag-shared-stories","26":"post_tag-the-marriage-of-cadmus-and-harmony","27":"post_tag-translator","28":"post_tag-verdic-philosophy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}