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Sossio Arturo Giametta (20 November 1929 – 15 January 2024) was an Italian philosopher, translator and journalist.

Biography
After graduating in law, towards the end of the 1950s, Giametta met Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari. He worked with them for four years, between Florence and Weimar, on a seminal critical edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, becoming one of the greatest contributors to the dissemination of Nietzsche's thought in Italy.

He has translated all the works and most important posthumous writings of Nietzsche, of whom he is considered one of Italy's foremost experts. Additionally, he has translated nearly all of Schopenhauer's works and crucial texts by Caesar, Spinoza, Goethe, Freud, and Max Stirner.

He also wrote several novels and short stories, marked by strong philosophical and moral value. This trait led Italian writer Raffaele La Capria to describe Giametta's prose as an astonishing encounter of literature and philosophy. As a journalist and essayist, he collaborated with several Italian newspapers, including Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, and Il Giornale.

Over the years, particularly since his 'Trilogy of Essentialism' (consisting of Bue squartato, L'oro prezioso dell'essere, and Cortocircuiti), Giametta developed his own philosophical system. He described it as follows: "Essentialism [...] is a new philosophy, based exclusively on nature, understood in its two aspects, both as naturans and as naturata. Essentialism describes the human condition as determined by the combination of two heterogeneous elements: the essence of all that exists, which is divine, and the conditions of existence, which are often all too diabolical. The balancing of these two elements, different in each individual, explains the eternal reasons why one believes or disbelieves, affirms or denies life, is optimistic or pessimistic."

Sossio Giametta died on January 15, 2024, at the age of 94,. in Brussels, where he had moved in 1965 and worked for 30 years at the Council of Ministers of the European Union.

Works

 * Oltre il nichilismo: Nietzsche, Holderlin, Goethe, Tempi moderni, Napoli 1987.
 * Nietzsche il poeta, il moralista, il filosofo (preface by Claudio Magris), Garzanti, Milano 1991.
 * Palomar, Han, Candaule e altri. Scritti di critica letteraria, Palomar, Bari 1992.
 * Nietzsche e i suoi interpreti. Oltre il nichilismo, Marsilio, Venezia1995.
 * Erminio o della fede. Dialogo con Nietzsche di un suo interprete. Spirali, Milano 1997.
 * Saggi nietzschiani, La Città del Sole, Napoli 1998.
 * Hamann nel giudizio di Hegel, Goethe e Croce, Bibliopolis, Napoli 2005.
 * Tre conferenze. Il mondo, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Palomar, Bari 2005.
 * Madonna con bambina e altri racconti morali, BUR, Milano 2006.
 * Commento allo Zarathustra, Mondadori Bruno, Milano 2006.
 * Nietzsche. Il pensiero come la dinamite, BUR, Milano 2007.
 * I pazzi di Dio. Croce, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche e altri, La Città del Sole, Napoli 2008.
 * Schopenhauer e Nietzsche, Il Prato, Padova 2008.
 * Eterodossie crociane, Bibliopolis, Napoli 2009.
 * Il volo di Icaro. Elzeviri filosofici, Il Prato, Padova 2009.
 * Introduzione a Nietzsche. Opera per opera, BUR, Milano 2009.
 * Il bue squartato e altri macelli. La dolce filosofia (con Giuseppe Girgenti), Mursia, Milano 2012.
 * L'oro prezioso dell'essere. Saggi filosofici, Mursia, Milano 2013.
 * Cortocircuiti, Mursia, Milano 2014.
 * Adelphoe, Unicopli, Milano 2015.
 * Il dio lontano, Castelvecchi, Roma 2016.
 * Tre centauri, Saletta dell'Uva, Napoli 2016.
 * Ritratti di dodici filosofi, Saletta dell'Uva, Napoli 2017.
 * Una vacanza attiva, OlioOfficina, Milano 2017.
 * Grandi problemi risolti in piccoli spazi. Codicillo dell'essenzialismo (postfazione di Marco Lanterna), Bompiani, Milano 2017.
 * Colli, Montinari e Nietzsche, BookTime, Milano 2018.
 * Capricci napoletani. Pagine di diario (a cura di Marco Lanterna), OlioOfficina, Milano 2018.
 * Il colpo di timpano, Saletta dell'Uva, Napoli 2019.
 * Dio impassibile (preludio di Antonio Castronuovo), Babbomorto, Imola 2019.
 * Contromano, BookTime, Milano 2019.
 * Caleidiscopio filosofico. L'eterno ritorno nel Nietzsche di Heidegger e altri saggi. Mimesis 2022

Related entries

 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Arthur Schopenhauer
 * Giorgio Colli
 * Mazzino Montinari