The Strictly Woven History. Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation in the Thought of Gentile and De Ruggiero

Takeshi Kurashina XXI (2026), 1 Saggio This study examines the historical narratives of Giovanni Gentile and Guido De Ruggiero, focusing on their respective interpretations of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation. While Benedetto Croce famously presented these three movements as metaphors for political and cultural progress or regression, Gentile and De Ruggiero provided the historiographical scaffolding […]