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Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944

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Personal name headingGentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944
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Associated placeItaly
Birth date1875-05-29
Death date1944-04-15
Place of birthCastelvetrano (Italy)
Place of deathFlorence (Italy)
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Philosophers Politicians Authors
Type of familymale
Found inSpaventa, B. La politica dei Gesuite ... 1911.
Lo spaccio del bestione trionfante, c1998: t.p. (Giovanni Gentile)
Diz. biografico degli Italiani, 1999 (hdg.: Gentile, Giovanni; b. May 29, 1875 at Castelvetrano in the prov. of Trapani; executed by communist partisans at his villa near Florence on April 15, 1944)
Wikipedia, December 30, 2016 (Giovanni Gentile; 30 May 1875 - 15 April 1944; was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician; a peer of Benedetto Croce; self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian Fascist thought; ghostwrote part of The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) with Benito Mussolini; was once President of the Royal Academy of Italy, Minister of Public Education, and Member of the Italian Senate; Education: Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Florence; teacher, philosopher, politician)