DENIS DIDEROT: "THE WHITE BIRD. THE KING NUDE". Written By Casalino Pierluigi

Denis Dierot was born in Langres in 1713. After attending a Jesuit college, he moved to Paris, where he studied Latin and Greek, Medicine and Music. Volcanic protagonist of  the cultural debate of French capital, fireworks actor in a season changing, and also victim of a censoring regime, from 1747 to 1765 he devoted himself to writing the Encyplopédie. He died in Paris in 1784. Among his works, ranging from fiction to theater, from philosophy to the history of art criticism (The Neveau de Rameau), The Jewels prying, The Natural Son, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master. It is inevitable that it is a moment in the history of peoples, in which spreading civilization, the principle of authority is in its true light. We realize then that the kings are men, and, once, everyone knows, the writers who say, doing nothing but embroider on a cliché, which have neither merit not demerit: they have only a little more or a little less than spirit. This "blue story" of Diderot, as they were called in France the texts of erotic or subversive, disseminated in a clandestine manner."The White Bird. The King Nude" is a "jewel" of the father of Enlightenement, an allegory extraordinary and caustic, really an enlightening and prophetic book.
Casalino Pierluigi, 9.10.2013.