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ROME, March 23 -- WhenChinesePresidentXiJinpingquotedAlbertoMoraviainasignedarticleinaleadingnewspaperhere, hecastnewlightonthe 20th-centuryItalianwriterwhohada "longandintense" connectionwithChina, scholarssaid.
QuotingMoravia, XiwroteintheCorrieredellaSeraarticle: "Friendshipsarenotchosenbychance, butaccordingtothepassionsthatdominateus."
Thequotation, saidItalianscholars, fitsinwellwiththelargerpointinXi'sarticle, whichwaspublishedontheeveofhisstatevisittoItalyandfocusesonpromotingstrongertiesbetweenthetwocountries.
"MoraviahadalongandintenserelationshipwithChina," DonatelloSantarone, aprofessorofinterculturaleducationatRomaTreUniversity, toldXinhua. "OnhisfirsttriptoChina, Moraviawrote 32 articles, explainingthecomplexitiesofChinesecultureatatimewhenItaliansknewverylittleaboutthecountry."
Alltold, MoraviamadethreeimportanttripstoChinaoveraperiodof 50 years, thelastofwhichcamein 1986, justfouryearsbeforethewriter, journalistandpublicintellectualdiedinRomeattheageof 82.
AccordingtoLucaClerici, aprofessorofItalianliteraturespecializingintravelwritingattheStateUniversityofMilan, Moravia'swritingsonChinashowthathewasparticularlyentrancedbyBeijingandtheGreatWall.
ClericialsosaidMoravia'sobjectivityaboutplaceshetraveledtomadehimanespeciallycompellingstoryteller.
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