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Tag: Risorgimento

  • Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

    Marcello Veneziani on the Spirit of Giovanni Gentile’s Actualism and Rebuilding Italy

    “It would take Gentile to rebuild Italy” by Marcello Veneziani outlines some important philosophical development from Gentile’s thought in the place of Italian intellectual history. There is some effort by scholars to reinvigorate research about Giovanni Gentile, who was a philosopher in his own right, of Actualism. Like Mazzini’s belief in the progress of history…

  • Theosophy in Italy and Under Fascist Rule | The Prefect of Genoa Report (1939)

    Theosophy in Italy and Under Fascist Rule | The Prefect of Genoa Report (1939)

    HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY DURING WORLD WAR AND UNDER FASCIST RULE, INCLUDING THE PREFECT OF GENOA’S REPORT JAN 1939 – HELENA P. BLAVATSKY frequently visited Italy, in namely Bologna, Bari, Trieste, Venice, Rome, and Naples. Many of her acquaintances in Italy became members of the Theosophical Society. In 1851, H.P.B. met Giuseppe Mazzini, and at…