My mother Clare Royce Spaventa (Clare Royce Spaventa) has passed away at the age of 87. She is an economist. She worked at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome and then at Cambridge University. As a researcher.When marriage brings a new life ItalyFor the benefit of the family, she chose to pay less attention to her promising career.
Claire is very smart and is one of the few women of her generation admitted to Cambridge, where she studied economics (1952-55). She went on to Stanford University, then worked for FAO in Rome around 1958 before returning to Cambridge as a researcher.It was this second time there, through Amartya SenLater, she met Luigi Spaventa, who is also an economist. In 1962, they hurriedly decided to get married-there was no Internet at the time, making phone calls and traveling very expensive.
But getting married meant moving to Rome and adapting to the rather closed society at the time. In fact, my grandmother and grandfather agreed that this combination is a very stupid idea when exchanging letters in French. The two cultures are so far apart that love alone cannot bridge it. They said that this marriage will not last long-but my parents have been married for 50 years until Luigi’s death in 2013.
This is not always easy, but she decided to achieve this goal by investing a lot of money to take care of her family at the expense of her career. She continued to work as a writer for the “Business International” derivative of “The Economist”, and then taught English as a foreign language at the University of Louise in Rome, where she was loved by students.
Her desire to integrate herself firmly into the Italian way of life also stems from a deep need for stability. Claire was born in Eleanor (nee Redfern) in Derby and Henry Royce (Henry Royce), an engineer from Rolls-Royce, and attended Derby and Warwick High Schools. Her father worked in aircraft engines, which was crucial to the war. She often moved: from Derbyshire to Scotland, where the whole family provided shelter for evacuees, provided “hot beds”, and sleeping alternately during the day and night. people.
In 1943, the family moved to the United States, and they were lucky when they returned in 1945—the other two ships in their convoy were hit by torpedoes. These experiences and traumas have deeply affected Claire: She always cares about those who are less fortunate than her, and desires to give her children and our friends a very stable and warm home. She is a greedy reader and possesses encyclopedic knowledge in many fields. She likes to travel before it becomes easy and fashionable. As we all know, she is an excellent chef-for a British woman in Italy, this is a remarkable achievement.
Claire’s sister Diana, her children Renato, Alessandro and me, and six grandchildren survived.
