Benedetta Craveri
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Benedetta Craveri is a Professor of French literature. She taught for many years at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples. She is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and contributes to The New York Review of Books and to the cultural pages of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica . Her books include Madame du Deffand and Her World , Mistresses and Queens , and The Age of Conversation (available from New York Review Books). She is married to a French diplomat and in 2017 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca by l’Institut de France.