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Raffaello Piccoli
1886–1933
An Italian writer, poet, and translator, he built a reputation as a lively interpreter of literature and ideas across cultures. His work moved between Italy, Australia, and Cambridge, where he became a notable teacher of Italian studies.
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Benedetto Croce: An Introduction to His Philosophy
by Raffaello Piccoli
About the author
Born in Naples in 1886, he became known as a writer, poet, translator, and literary scholar with a strong interest in English and Italian culture. His published work included studies of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Benedetto Croce, as well as essays on English and American literature and civilization.
His career took him well beyond Italy. Sources describe him teaching in Australia before going on to Cambridge, where he was appointed Professor of Italian and later became a Fellow of Magdalene College. Contemporary archival material remembers him as a stylish and cosmopolitan scholar with an unusual gift for connecting literary traditions.
He died in 1933, still relatively young, after a career that left its mark on Italian studies and on cultural exchange between Britain and Italy.