Biography: Giovanni GentilePhilosopher, born in Castelvetrano, Italy. He was professor of philosophy at Palmero, Pisa, and Rome, and became with Croce the leading exponent of 20th-c Italian idealism. He quarrelled with Croce's complex distinctions between the theoretical and practical categories of mind, arguing that nothing is real except the pure act of thought. He became a philosophical mouthpiece for Mussolini, and was minister of education (1922--4). He was assassinated by an anti-Fascist Communist in Florence in 1944.
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