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Giovanni Gentile was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.
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politics · Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician (1875–1944) · philosopher · pedagogue · politician · university teacher · literary critic · also Giovanni Gentile, Gentile
Born 29 May 1875 · Died 15 April 1944 · Q312295
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Died 1944-04-15.
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Following him in the establishment of the Republic of Salò, a puppet state of Nazi Germany, and accepted an appointment in its government despite having criticized its anti-Jewish laws
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Career landmark: Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore (1937–1943).
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Career landmark: Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore (1932–1936).
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In the Italian Encyclopedia, wherein he described the traits characteristic of Italian Fascism at the time: compulsory state corporatism, Philosopher Kings, the abolition of the parliamentary system, and autarky
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Won Serena Medal (1928).
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Career landmark: Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore (1928–1932).
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Gentile headed two constitutional commissions that helped establish the corporate state of Fascism as part of the Exceptional Fascist Laws, and was a member of the Fascist Grand Council from 1925 to 1929
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It would be gradually dismantled by his successors; the "complementary schools" were abolished in 1930, and in 1939 then-Minister for Education Giuseppe Bottai made further sweeping changes to the education system
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The so-called Gentile Reform of the Italian educational system, the first major piece of legislation passed by the Fascist government, which would last in some capacity until 1962
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Career landmark: minister of Public Education of the Kingdom of Italy (1922–1924).
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On the recommendation of Benedetto Croce, who had refused the role himself, Gentile was named Minister for Public Education for the government of Benito Mussolini
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And would not return to it until Benito Mussolini's 1922 seizure of power in the March on Rome, by which point fascist doctrine was largely complete
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Was attacking much of the Italian political sphere: the Socialists and the Catholics of the future Popular Party for their opposition to the national state; the Vatican as a hostile independent power opposed to the ex
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Though was privately one from the outbreak of the war
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Graduated in Letters and Philosophy with a dissertation titled Rosmini e Gioberti, that he realized under the supervision of Donato Jaja, a disciple of Bertrando Spaventa
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Awarded Gautieri Award (1897).
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Studied at Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, diploma di licenza della Scuola Normale Superiore (1893–1897).
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And remained close until 1925, when Croce sided against fascism and Gentile for it with their Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals and Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals respectively
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Studied at Liceo classico statale L. Ximenes (1892).
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Born 1875-05-29.
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