The full correspondence between Elena Croce and Maria Zambrano has been published for the first time in Spanish in the publishing house Pre-Textos in the form of a critical edition by Elena Laurenzi, researcher of the Università del Salento and the Seminari Filosofia i Gènere—ADHUC. This epistolary is of great interest to delve into María Zambrano’s thought. Her letters constitute a true philosophical laboratory; in it we find unpublished notes on Croce, Ortega, Heidegger, on structural linguistics, on liberalism of Christian framework, and thoughts on the central themes of twentieth-century debate. The correspondence also allows an approach to the little-researched personality of Elena Croce. Her letters show her quality as fine heiress to the best memorial tradition and her lucid and passionate efforts to bring Italian culture out of its provincialism. The critical apparatus elaborates the warp of biographical, cultural, social and political experiences into which the epistolary is woven. To do this, Laurenzi reconstructs the events and processes which marked twentieth-century history (the end of the Franco dictatorship and the difficult democratic transition, the French May 68, the Arab-Israeli war, 1970s' terrorism, massification, and the cultural consumption industry) and which find a vivid reflection in the lucid and passionate considerations of the authors.
