Giuseppe De Lorenzo e il buddhismo

Giuseppe De Lorenzo was a geologist, translator of Buddhist texts and Schopenhauer, a great reader of Shakespeare and a Senator of the Kingdom. A multifaceted figure who has been discussed and even criticised, but who in fact remains of great interest both for the history of Neapolitan culture in the early 20th century and for the history of Buddhism in Italy. In 1981, the publisher Laterza republished, in an anastatic print, his "India and Ancient Buddhism", the first edition of which dates back to 1904, a Sanskritist of the value of Raniero Gnoli wrote: «Much, undoubtedly, has been done from the beginning of the century until today in the field of Buddhology, but De Lorenzo's presentation and analysis of Buddhism remains substantially accurate to this day».