Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Giovanni Sartori

Born: May 13, 1924
Died: April 4, 2017 (aged 92)
Bio: Giovanni Sartori was an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.
Known for:
- Homo videns (1997)
- The theory of democracy revisited (1987)
- Comparative constitutional engineering (1994)
- Parties and Party Systems (1976)