Italian idealism
Italian idealism, born from interest in the German movement and particularly in Hegelian doctrine, developed in Italy starting from the spiritualism of the nineteenth-century Risorgimento tradition, and culminated in the first half of the twentieth century in its two greatest exponents: Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile. == Risorgimento spiritualism and Hegelianism == In the age of Romanticism, Italian patriots' philosophical circles tried to give a spiritual, moral and ideal imprint to the historical path towards national unification.