A stamp dedicated to Gentile 80 years after his death

(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 10 – The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy has issued a commemorative stamp dedicated to Giovanni Gentile, on the 80th anniversary of his death. The philatelic issue reproduces a portrait of Giovanni Gentile, an authoritative twentieth-century European philosopher and one of the greatest exponents of Italian Idealism. Gentile, Minister of Public Education from October 1922 to June 1924, also went down in history for having carried out the reform of the Italian school system known as the Gentile Reform in 1923. The sketch was created by the Philatelic Production Center of the State Printing and Mint Institute and the stamp will be printed with the tariff indication “B” in two hundred and fifty thousand and twenty copies. The official presentation ceremony at the Salone degli Arazzi of Palazzo Piacentini was attended, among others, by the Minister of Business and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano and representatives of the Gentile family. “Today’s is a dutiful contribution to a leading figure in the Italian cultural panorama of the first half of the twentieth century – underlined Urso -. The Gentile Reform of the school system is a system which, despite subsequent modifications, is still in force for the its relevance. This stamp is a small piece of a collective memory that we must recompose and recognize eighty years after the assassination of Giovanni Gentile and one hundred years after his Reformation, so that ideology no longer kills intelligence”. “Giovanni Gentile – observes the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano – together with Benedetto Croce marked the Italian philosophy of the twentieth century. He positioned himself as the philosopher who continued the Risorgimento, entrusting himself with the task of writing a civil history of Italy as a national Renaissance. both the words of Biagio de Giovanni, who defines him among the greatest of the European twentieth century, and those of Norberto Bobbio, according to whom together with Croce he created what he defines as Italian ideology”. (HANDLE).