Re: Gramsci question-- "Pessimismo dell'intelletto, ottimismo della
volonta'" is a maxim of Romain Rolland, to which Gramsci often refers
on the pages of Ordine Nuovo and in the Notebooks. It appears in
Notebook 9, entry #60 as "Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo
della volonta'" (Quaderni del carcere, V. Gerratana ed., vol. II,
p.1131; see also Ibid (Quaderno 6) , p. 762 and vol. III (Quaderno
28), p. 2332.
Robert Dombroski (Department of Comparative Literature, CUNY
Graduate School)
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