by Voltaire · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854154575
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«Candido» is Voltaire's satirical and philosophical novel in a complete edition, published by Newton Compton Editori in paperback (128 pages, in Italian).
Young Candido grows up in a castle where the optimist Pangloss assures him that everything happens for the best; when expelled, he endures wars, shipwrecks and calamities that contradict that doctrine. Candido combines irony and critique to question the origin of evil and satirize the philosophical optimism of his era, without offering a definitive answer.
Complete edition in Italian published in 2013; the original text, Candide, ou l'Optimisme, appeared in 1759. Includes introduction by Renato Minore, preface by Riccardo Campi and translation by Paola Angioletti.
For readers of eighteenth-century classics interested in satire, philosophy and literature in Italian.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
