Giovanni Gentile, a stamp to remember him 80 years after his death

And stamp to commemorate Giovanni Gentile 80 years after his death. It was presented today at the Tapestry Hall of Palazzo Piacentini a Roma. The Minister of Business and Made in Italy participated, Adolfo Ursothe Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiulianothe undersecretary with responsibility for philately, Fausta Bergamotthe president of Poste Italiane, Silvia Roverethe president of the board of directors of the State Printing and Mint Institute, Paolo Perroneand representatives of the Gentile family.

The philatelic issue reproduces a portrait of Giovanni Gentile, authoritative philosopher of the twentieth century in Europe and among the greatest exponents ofItalian idealism. Gentile, Minister of Public Education from October 1922 to June 1924, also went down in history for having completed the Italian school reform known as the Gentile Reformation.

The sketch was created by 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 specimens.