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“The Book of All Books” is one of the last in a series of studies of myth by Roberto Calasso, who died in Milan this past July, at the age of
Roberto Calasso, the Italian publisher, translator and writer whose wide-ranging works explored the evolution and mysteries of human consciousness....
Roberto Calasso
Italian writer and publisher (1941–2021)
Roberto Calasso (30 May 1941 – 28 July 2021) was an Italian writer and publisher.[2] Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek.
He also studied Sanskrit.[3] He has been called "a literary institution of one".[3] The fundamental thematic concept of his œuvre is the relationship between myth and the emergence of modern consciousness.[4]
Early life
Calasso was born in Florence in 1941, into a family of the Tuscan upper class, well connected with some of the great Italian intellectuals of their time.
His maternal grandfather Ernesto Codignola was a professor of philosophy at Florence University. Codignola created a new publishing house called La Nuova Italia, in Florence, as his friend Benedetto Croce had done in Bari with Laterza.
Calasso's uncle, Tristano Codignola, was a partisan during World War II who after