"In July 1883 the philosopher Benedetto Croce was vacationing with his family in Casamicciola, Ischia. He was a boy of seventeen. He was at the dinner table with mom, his sister and father and was about to take place. Suddenly, as a lightweight, he saw his father waving and immediately sank to the floor, while his sister jumped up toward the roof. Terrified, she tried with her eyes and her mother joined her on the balcony, from which rushed along. Fainted and was buried up to his neck in rubble. For several hours the father spoke to him before disappearing. Said, "who offer to save you a hundred thousand lire." Benedict will be the only survivor of his family massacred by the earthquake " (Roberto Saviano, Come away with me , Feltrinelli, 2011 - p. 7)..
was not the first time Roberto Saviano recounted this episode in the life of Benedetto Croce, had already done on April 14, 2009 the Republic, and of course during a monologue aired on Raitre ( The earthquake in L'Aquila ), then collected in the volume of the Press, and always giving the father of the philosopher, the only sentence on March 8 he was challenged by Marta Herling, nephew of Benedetto Croce, with a letter to the Corriere del Mezzogiorno :
"Where the author of 'Gomorra' has drawn the reconstruction of that tragedy? From his mind as a prophet of the past and future, a writer whose fame earned with his debut, was dragged by the wave of media and publishing market, which is not allowed to verify the correspondence between words and deeds, or teach the history, including the story, the narrative of events, and sources, the documents that are a direct witness. [...] Where Saviano has overheard the story it tells in the incipit of his monologue? Certainly not from reading the text of his main character because the surviving text that has been handed down intact without another word of comment or explanation, in our memories and family in the biographies of the philosopher, who reported to illustrate the tragic page of life his and his loved ones " .
And here is the lady to follow up on the events of July 1883 taken from "Memories of my life (Italian Institute for Historical Studies, 1966), in which undoubtedly there is no trace of THAT ' "offered one hundred thousand pounds to those who saves you' . So Saviano tells bales? No, far from it.
The April 13, 1950 was also released on Today a long interview with the philosopher, collected by Ugo Pirro, who wrote:
"in the disaster remained buried even the Cross family, including Frank. The mother and sister Mary were swallowed up by rubble, but the father died after long suffering waiting in vain for help, a step away from Benedict that stuck because nothing could be done with the whole body from the rubble of the house. The youth was extracted with a shattered leg and an injured arm. Benedict was among the latest casualties to be transported to Naples, its terms do not raise excessive worries. A reporter, turning lanes between hospitals in Naples, interviewed him and so he reported what the young man told Cross that terrible night: "Yesterday was also transported to the eldest son of Naples Comm. Cross, and he is severely wounded in the leg and arm. Died on comm. Cross, his wife and a daughter. The young survivor of this very rich family Foggia, established over many years in Naples, retains a clear memory of what happened. His mother and sister disappeared into the vortex of the collapse, nor heard any of their voice. He who was seated at a table together with his father fell. The father was covered everything from the rubble, but he spoke from half past nine on Saturday until eleven o'clock am the following Sunday. Frank was buried up to their necks in the stones, however, had his head out of them. The boy was lifted from the ruins around noon, shortly before his father had stopped talking. It is said that with great common sense would say to a child 'to sell a hundred thousand lire Who will save you '"" .
the publication of the interview did not raise objections to the philosopher, but his nephew has to say well 61 years later.
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