Pietro Citati è nato a Firenze nel 1930. Dopo il liceo classico D’Azeglio a Torino si è laureato in lettere alla Normale di Pisa nel 1951 e ha iniziato la sua carriera di critico letterario collaborando a riviste come Il Punto (al fianco di Pier Paolo Pasolini), L’Approdo e Paragone. Ha scritto per negli anni ’60 per Il Giorno e dal 1973 al 1988 per il Corriere della Sera. Dal 1988 è una delle firme più prestigiose del quotidiano La Repubblica. Critico, saggista, narratore, è uno dei direttori della Fondazione Lorenzo Valla che pubblica, con Mondadori, la collana Scrittori greci e latini. Ha all’attivo più di una ventina di opere, tra le quali le biografie di Goethe (1970), Tolstoj (1983), Kafka (1987) e Leopardi (2010).
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