Pietro Citati

Florence, 1930 – Roccamare, 2022. Italian essayist, literary critic, and biographer, renowned for his elegant style and unique perspective on world literature. A contributor to Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, he distinguished himself with works that combine scholarly rigor and poetic sensibility. Among his most notable books are ‘Tolstoy’, ‘Kafka’, ‘Goethe’, and ‘The Light of Night’, in which he explores the lives and works of great writers as if they were modern myths. His prose, luminous and attentive to spiritual nuances, established him as one of the most refined voices of 20th-century Italian criticism.