L’attrito della vita/ Lorenza Foschini

Genius and unruliness, charm and political commitment, nonconformity and existential angst. Renato Caccioppoli was all this and much more, and recounting it is Lorenza Foschini in "The Friction of Life. Investigation of Renato Caccioppoli, Neapolitan mathematician" (Theseus' Ship). The journalist and writer traces his life and history up to that May 8, 1959, when Caccioppoli, a mathematical genius, prodigious pianist, highly educated polyglot and great storyteller, took his own life by shooting himself, in Naples, in his home in Palazzo Cellammare. Thus emerges from the book not only his figure as an intellectual, also celebrated by André Gide, Pablo Neruda, Eduardo De Filippo, Benedetto Croce, Alberto Moravia and Elsa Morante, but above all the image of a man who was not stereotyped and in some ways unprecedented. The author, at the invitation of Idrusa bookstore, is a guest of the "Agostiniani Libri" review organized by the Department of Culture. Mauro Bortone and Antonio Leaci will dialogue with her.

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