Norberto Bobbio, the greatest Italian political philosopher of the twentieth century, is dead: the Guardian’s obituary by Richard Bellamy is here, the AP obituary is in lots of places, among them here, and as far as I can tell the other papers haven’t yet caught up.
January 13, 2004
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